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Anyone got any recommendations for good movies or TV series in Spanish?

In reply to humptydumpty:

Pans labyrinth, the Devils backbone.

I like bombon el perro too, won't be to everyone's taste (not that much happens), but it is set in patagonia. ..

In reply to humptydumpty:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/

Mindbending time travel thing without state of the art special effects.

In reply to humptydumpty:

Have you seen any films by Almodovar? Kind of a twisted genius.

I'd hesitate to recommend them to anyone without knowing their tastes first, and beware, some are very bad. There's quite a good dark thriller/horror one (The Skin I Live In), many of the others are (melo)dramas my favourite of which is Volver.

In reply to Jon Stewart:

Too right. Forgot about that one- excellent movie...

In reply to humptydumpty:

Jamón Jamón - early P Cruz - very good

In reply to humptydumpty:

Just about anything by that forgotten genius, Bunuel. E.g Tristana, Belle de Jour, the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and the amazing, shocking Viridiana.

In reply to Jon Stewart:


Haven't seen anything anyone's recommended so far, but twisted genius sounds good to me! Thanks all - I'd better get down to Blockbuster...

In reply to humptydumpty:

The Telephone Box (La Cabina).
Spanish freaky horror thing. No gore or monsters, just disturbing, in an intense way.
Don't read the wiki as it contains spoliers.

In reply to humptydumpty:

An old film (1993) and I've not seen it for years, but I used to love a film called The Red Squirrel (La Ardilla Roja).

The films title comes from the name of a campsite, but not the one many users of this forum will be familiar with.

In reply to humptydumpty:

Wild Tales. A film of 6 short stories. All in Spanish. A fantastic watch.

In reply to humptydumpty:

Rec is an excellent 'found footage' style horror film.

In reply to humptydumpty:


Almodovar is so obviously massively influenced by Bunuel, whom I mentioned above. He's nothing like as great, because he lacks that extraordinary satirical wit, but still very good in a very special, surreal Spanish way. If you want to see 'twisted genius' on a grand scale, so great that it influenced almost all politically and socially satirical films from ever on, please look at Viridiana. If you can find it (it was banned in its day by the Vatican).

In reply to humptydumpty:

Y Tu Mama Tambien?

In reply to humptydumpty:

amores perros (mexxican?), not great for dog lovers

In reply to Jon Stewart:
I especially like Carne Tremula, based on a Ruth Rendell story and starring a young Javier Bardem.

Completely unrelated but I came across a prison drama called Celda 211 which is pretty grim but worth a watch

In reply to humptydumpty:

Narcos, great recent TV offering from Netflix about Pablo Escobar - maybe you can turn subtitles off?

In reply to humptydumpty:

+1 for Jamon Jamon & Pan;s Labyrinth

In reply to humptydumpty:

For comedy:

Crimen Ferpecto, Torremolinos 73 and the Torrente films.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:


Will do, sounds brilliant.

In reply to humptydumpty:

The original of Vanilla Sky is pretty good:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/

and another by Amenábar:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369702/?ref_=nv_sr_1