11. Open Your Eyes ( Abre los ojos )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Chete Lera, Jorge de Juan, Fele Martínez
Plot: A handsome man how has everything is injured in a car accident in which he turns crazy - little does he know he may eventually lead a life he didn't really lead.
12. Talk to Her ( Hable con ella )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Actors: Javier Camara, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin, Darío Grandinetti, Mariola Fuentes
Plot: While their significant others are comatose, they develop a friendship which involve all four of their past, present and future lives.
13. Devil's Backbone, The ( espinazo del diablo, El )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega (II), Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo
Plot: A boy at an orphanage is haunted by a ghost that is trying to warn him and show how he really died. Takes place in Spain during WWII.
14. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver
Plot: When a woman's lover leaver her, she decides to track him down to find out why. His family has no idea and her girlfriend is too busy being worried about the police coming after her for her boyfriend's crimes. Seeking advice, they find a female lawyer - who just so happens to be the ex-lover's new flame - and then things get really complicated.
15. Embrace of the Serpent ( abrazo de la serpiente, El )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ciro Guerra
Actors: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Migue, Nicolás Cancino
Plot: Taking place in 1909 and 1940. The Amazonian last survivor shaman of his
tribe, travels
with two scientists, to look for the rare yakruna, a sacred plant. The
film is inspired by the
diaries written by the two scientists during their field work in the
Amazon.
16. Orphanage, The ( orfanato, El )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Actors: Fernando Cayo, Belén Rueda, Roger Príncep, Andrés Gertrúdix, Mabel Rivera, Edgar Vivar
Plot: An orphan returns to her former orphanage with her new family to remodel and re-open the grounds. When she and her son venture to the beach he leaves a trail of sea-shells for one of his imaginary friends to follow. What exactly follows them back though?
17. Maria Full of Grace
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joshua Marston
Actors: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Virgina Ariza, Yenny Paola Vega, Rodrigo Sánchez Borhorquez, Charles Albert Patiño, Wilson Guerrero
Plot: A young woman living in Mexico becomes pregnant and has no one to turn to.
In desperation, she becomes a drug mule and smuggles drugs over the
border.
18. Volver
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Plot: A woman and her daughter conspire to kill the woman's lover, a sexually abusive man.
19. When Evil Lurks ( Cuando acecha la maldad )
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Demián Rugna
Actors: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater, Luis Ziembrowski, Marcelo Michinaux, Emilio Vodanovich
20. Spirit of the Beehive, The ( espíritu de la colmena, El )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Víctor Erice
Actors: Teresa Gimpera, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ketty de la Cámara, Ana Torrent, Juan Margallo
Plot: Visually beautiful film about a young girl in fascist Spain who, after seeing a traveling exhibition of James Whale's classic "Frankenstein," believes the monster is hiding out in an abandoned barn.
