Critically acclaimed Spanish movies of 2010s

Roma(2018)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 96

A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.



Pain and Glory(2019)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 90

An aging film director suffering from chronic illness and writer's block reflects on his life.



Neruda(2016)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 81

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.



No(2012)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 79

An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.



Gloria(2013)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.



Relatos salvajes(2014)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.



Julieta(2016)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.



Zama(2017)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.



Blancanieves(2012)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.



La piel que habito(2011)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.



Ema(2019)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.



Identifying Features(2020)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.



The Platform(2019)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.



I Carry You with Me(2020)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.



Miss Bala(2011)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 70

After entering a beauty contest in Tijuana, a young woman witnesses drug-related murders and is forced to do the gang's bidding.



Biutiful(2010)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.



Chico & Rita(2010)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.



Jauja(2014)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.



La danza de la realidad(2013)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on the edge of the Chilean desert where this film was shot. It was there that Jodorowsky underwent an unhappy and ...



The Untamed(2016)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.




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