Top Best Spanish films ever shot (1929-2018).
This list's purpose is becoming a comprehensive index for those films regarded as some of the best films in Spanish Cinema History.
Please, note that Berlanga's National Trilogy: La escopeta nacional (1978), Patrimonio nacional (1981), and Nacional III (1982), should be regarded as a single film. Documentary films by José Val del Omar: Aguaespejo granadino (1953-55), Fuego en Castilla (1958-60), and Acariño galaico (1961-95), should be also regarded as a single film named Tríptico elemental de España. Finally, the two-part documentary Después de... (1981) by Cecilia & José Juan Bartolomé should be regarded as a single film too.
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FILMS ADDED IN 2016
· Truman, Cesc Gay (2015).
FILMS ADDED IN 2017
· La…
Top Best Spanish films ever shot (1929-2018).
This list's purpose is becoming a comprehensive index for those films regarded as some of the best films in Spanish Cinema History.
Please, note that Berlanga's National Trilogy: La escopeta nacional (1978), Patrimonio nacional (1981), and Nacional III (1982), should be regarded as a single film. Documentary films by José Val del Omar: Aguaespejo granadino (1953-55), Fuego en Castilla (1958-60), and Acariño galaico (1961-95), should be also regarded as a single film named Tríptico elemental de España. Finally, the two-part documentary Después de... (1981) by Cecilia & José Juan Bartolomé should be regarded as a single film too.
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FILMS ADDED IN 2016
· Truman, Cesc Gay (2015).
FILMS ADDED IN 2017
· La novia, Paula Ortiz (2015).
· María (y los demás), Nely Reguero (2016).
· Mimosas, Óliver Laxe (2016).
· La propera pell, Isaki Lacuesta & Isa Campo (2016).
· Tarde para la ira, Raúl Arévalo (2016).
FILMS ADDED IN 2018
· Timecode, Juanjo Giménez Peña (2016).
· El autor, Manuel Martín Cuenca (2017).
· Estiu 1993, Carla Simón (2017).
· Handia, Jon Garaño & Aitor Arregi (2017).
· Verónica, Paco Plaza (2017).
FILMS ADDED IN 2019
· Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo, Gustavo Salmerón (2017).
· Les distàncies, Elena Trapé (2018).
· La enfermedad del domingo, Ramón Salazar (2018).
· El reino, Rodrigo Sorogoyen (2018).
FILMS ADDED IN 2020
· Petra, Jaime Rosales (2018).
· Dolor y gloria, Pedro Almodóvar (2019).
· El hoyo, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (2019).
· O que arde, Óliver Laxe (2019).
· La trinchera infinita, Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi & José Mari Goenaga (2019).
FILMS ADDED IN 2021
· La virgen de agosto, Jonás Trueba (2019).
· El año del descubrimiento, Luis López Carrasco (2020).
· Las niñas, Pilar Palomero (2020).
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For practical purposes I decided to exclude those films produced by Spanish companies, but whose cast, director, writers, or other crew members weren't Spaniards. These films are the following:
· Sierra de Teruel (L'Espoir). André Malraux, 1945. Spain, France. War film.
· El cebo (Es geschah am hellichten Tag). Ladislao Vadja, 1958. Spain, Switzerland, West Germany. Thriller.
· Campanadas a medianoche (Chimes at Midnight). Orson Welles, 1966. Spain, Switzerland. Drama.
· Tristana (íd.). Luis Buñuel, 1970. Spain, France, Italy. Drama.
· Ese oscuro objeto del deseo (Cet obscur objet du désir). Luis Buñuel, 1977. Spain, France. Drama.
· Tierra y libertad (Land and Freedom). Ken Loach, 1995. Spain, UK, Germany, Italy. War film.
· Los otros (The Others). Alejandro Amenábar, 2001. Spain, UK, USA. Horror film.
· El maquinista (The Machinist). Brad Anderson, 2004. Spain. Thriller.
· Enterrado (Buried). Rodrigo Cortés, 2010. Spain, USA, France. Thriller.
· Lo imposible (The Impossible). J. A. Bayona, 2012. Spain, USA. Drama.
· Un monstruo viene a verme (A Monster Calls). J. A. Bayona, 2016. Spain, UK. Fantasy.
· La vida y nada más (Life & Nothing More). Antonio Méndez Esparza, 2017. Spain. Drama.
· Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows).Asghar Farhadi, 2018. Spain. Thriller.
All of these ten films [note: ten originally, now thirteen] deserved to be included in the current list.