Movies + Shows About Spain
Hi travel friends,
Sandra, one of the incredible Spanish guides we work with at Bold Spirit Travel, has some great movie and show recommendations for you. All of them feature Spain.
Cable Girls: Four seasons of the life of 5 women who worked at Telefonica, set in 1930s Madrid. All about womens’ rights, love, hate, betrayal, power and politics. Plenty of action.
Grand Hotel: Juicy period soap, Spanish answer to Downtown Abbey.
Velvet: Steamy love story set in glamorous fashion world of 1950s Madrid, inspired in the creation of the first “shopping mall” (El Corte Ingles)
Velvet Collection: Spin off of Velvet, this time set in Barcelona 1960s.
Cocaine Coast: When fishermen went from fish to tobacco to hash to cocaine without almost realizing. This is a true story and it has nothing to do with Narcos. Galicia in the 80s.
Unauthorized Living: An influential Galician drug cartel leader must seek out his successor while keeping his degenerative disease a secret.
Ministry of Time: Secret agents go undercover in different times in Spanish History.
Vis a Vis (Locked Up): Spanish answer to Orange is the New Black. Here they dress in yellow.
Paquita Salas: A movie star PR in Madrid. Almodovar could have done this in his youth.
Money Heist: The most popular among Spanish audiences. Addictive entertaining thriller.
Morocco: Love in Times of War: 1920s nurses from Madrid upper class open a hospital.
Cathedral of the Sea (series) or (novel): Based on a fictional historical novel of medieval Barcelona.
Elite: For your teenage grandchildren, they will love you for the recommendation.
High Seas: The story of a murder on a cruise from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s. Sexy captain.
Mar de Plástico: Great insight into ethnic tensión in the south of SP. Great photography.
Merli: Catalan high school show, where philosophy teacher, Merli, engages with students in a particular manner. Popular among adults and teenagers. Very real. No sexy people here.
Caronte: Galician police investigating crimes on the coast.
Six Dreams: All about La Liga, football league (not “soccer” 😉)
Lo Que Escondían tus Ojos: The story of clandestine romance of Franco’s brother.
Infidels: Our Catalan version of Sex in the city!
Patria: Based on the novel Fernando Aramburu, so real it hurts. MUST
Vote for Juan: Comedy about Spanish Politics. Juan wants to be mayor.
30 Coins: Thriller in deep Spain involving the church.
Veneno: The story of Cristina Ortiz, first trans person on TV. Necessary.
La Unidad: Follows a unit of policemen in Madrid specialized in terrorism.
Perfect Life: What Maria and her friends want. Great script comedy.
Isabel: The biography of our most famous and charismatic Queen.
El Cid: The biography of our most famous and charismatic Knight.