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    Spanish History Movies

    The 40 most popular spanish history movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.

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    Society of the Snow
    TMDB4.0

    Society of the Snow

    2023 · 2h 23m · ES

    On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

    The Impossible
    TMDB3.7

    The Impossible

    2012 · 1h 53m · ES

    In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

    El abanderado
    TMDB3.5

    El abanderado

    1943 · 1h 50m · ES

    A young lieutenant is appointed flag bearer for his regiment, on the verge of the Spanish war against Napoleonic invasion. He doesn't share his friends'conspiring plans because he is engaged to a French lady. Then the revolution breaks out.

    Magellan
    TMDB3.1

    Magellan

    2025 · 2h 40m · PH

    At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands. He embarks on a perilous journey across the uncharted Pacific, where his fleet faces starvation, mutiny, and the psychological toll of endless seas. Upon reaching the shores of Cebu, Magellan is pulled into a fatal conflict with the natives by his drive to spread Catholicism, culminating in his tragic doom.

    Gold
    TMDB2.9

    Gold

    2017 · 1h 43m · ES

    Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.

    Casablanca revisitada
    TMDB4.5

    Casablanca revisitada

    1992 · 18m · ES

    A lyrical and nostalgic analysis of how Casablanca, the mythical film directed by Michael Curtiz in 1942, has influenced both film history and pop culture.

    Zero Hour

    TMDB2.6

    Zero Hour

    2011 · CO

    One night, while trampling the emotions memories of Federico, a chain of decisions leads even point of no return. And when I least expected it, not knowing when your clock showed, his life changed forever ... for eternity. Regardless of the name, neither good nor bad he did, or how others judge them, only their decisions will make the difference when you get ... the Zero Hour.

    Jeromín
    TMDB4.0

    Jeromín

    1953 · 1h 35m · ES

    In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values ​​of Franco.

    The Painting
    TMDB3.8

    The Painting

    2019 · 1h 47m · ES

    For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime.

    The Truce
    TMDB3.3

    The Truce

    2025 · 2h 30m · ES

    Karlag, short for Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, was one of the largest labor camps within the Soviet Gulag system. Established in 1931, it was located in the Karagandy Region of Kazakhstan. The film will explore the hardships faced by people during the 1930s-1950s and the resilience of human dignity despite the daily struggle for survival. The atmosphere of Karlag will be conveyed through costumes, props, and sets created after extensive research in archives and museums.

    Guarapo
    TMDB2.9

    Guarapo

    1989 · 1h 40m · ES

    Benito a.k.a. Guarapo, is a young laborer without land, who dreams of emigrating to America for a better future.

    Palm Trees in the Snow
    TMDB3.7

    Palm Trees in the Snow

    2015 · 2h 44m · FR

    Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

    Felicitas
    TMDB2.1

    Felicitas

    2009 · 2h 8m · AR

    Buenos Aires at the outskirts of XIX century. A society rigid in patriarchal rules. A war between brothers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Two young and very much in love youngsters, fight for their right to be together. Obeyance and fear sets them apart along more than ten years. When they are finally reunited, will they be able to overcome the pain and tragedy that haunts them?

    GAL
    TMDB2.4

    GAL

    2006 · 1h 45m · ES

    Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA.

    The Vampire of Santiago
    TMDB5.0

    The Vampire of Santiago

    1955 · 1h 45m · AR

    In seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.

    Finding Altamira
    TMDB2.9

    Finding Altamira

    2016 · 1h 37m · FR

    The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.

    Giant
    TMDB3.3

    Giant

    2017 · 1h 54m · ES

    Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.

    While at War
    TMDB3.5

    While at War

    2019 · 1h 48m · AR

    Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

    Difunta Correa
    TMDB3.5

    Difunta Correa

    1975 · AR

    No overview available

    The German Doctor
    TMDB3.3

    The German Doctor

    2013 · 1h 30m · AR

    Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter to his care, not knowing that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.

    Caleta Palace
    TMDB2.6

    Caleta Palace

    2023 · ES

    Eight foreign characters recall their exploits and fears in Malaga, a paradise city that starts a revolution on July 18th 1936, as the military coup is stopped by popular rebellion, until February 9th 1937, when Mussolini troops take Malaga and put it under the rule of Franco. Seven months that shape the stark tale of a besieged city, the first capital to be conquered in Spanish Civil War and a prelude of WW2.

    Ambel, la película
    TMDB2.8

    Ambel, la película

    2014 · ES

    Victim of the stagnant and hypocritical society of the 17th century, Martín de Ambel will be forced to live for 36 years within the walls of the Iglesia de la Concepción after committing murder to defend the honor of his family.

    Alféreces provisionales
    TMDB4.0

    Alféreces provisionales

    1964 · 1h 50m

    Javier López Cronwell, journalist, son of an American and a Spaniard, comes to Spain to write a series of anti-communist articles. The boy is politically neutral and emotionally and personally cold. He comes into contact with his paternal grandfather and the friends of his father, who died in our Liberation War, who propose that he take the provisional ensigns as a topic for his article. He prepares his return to North America without waiting to see the 25th anniversary Victory Parade, despite the wishes of his father's friends, old ensigns who will parade to show the world that they are still in the breach.

    Operation Ogre
    TMDB3.5

    Operation Ogre

    1979 · 1h 41m · IT

    Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

    Cuba
    TMDB1.9

    Cuba

    2002 · CU

    1896. Cuba is at a critical juncture. Following the death of Antonio Maceo, one of its independence leaders, the island is torn between two positions: continuing the fight for independence or annexation to the United States. Spain, through its energetic generals, seeks to maintain its hegemony on the island. A difficult period in which, however, strange love stories also occur.

    Cholera
    TMDB3.5

    Cholera

    2013 · 6m · ES

    Cholera: Path. Acute, infectious disease, often epidemic and very serious.

    The Photographer of Mauthausen
    TMDB3.5

    The Photographer of Mauthausen

    2018 · 1h 51m · HU

    Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

    Esquilache
    TMDB2.9

    Esquilache

    1989 · 1h 40m · ES

    In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.

    Cuba, 1898: la caída del Imperio español
    TMDB2.0

    Cuba, 1898: la caída del Imperio español

    1992 · 58m · ES

    A brief account of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the end of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

    We the Hispanos: España, raíz de Estados Unidos
    TMDB4.0

    We the Hispanos: España, raíz de Estados Unidos

    2026 · 1h 58m · ES

    Uncover the United States of America's hidden Hispanic heritage and its enduring presence - an over 500 year legacy that continues to shape its art, music, and history, and without which it would not be the same.

    Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World
    TMDB2.8

    Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World

    2019 · 1h 25m · ES

    The first journey around the world began under the command of Ferdinand Magellan and was concluded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Five boats left Seville on September 20, 1519. Storms, famine, tribes… Three years later, only one made it back. An incredible adventure around the planet whose roundness was finally proven.

    Libertad
    TMDB3.3

    Libertad

    2021 · 2h 22m

    Libertad is a combination of intense drama, villainy , betrayal , romance , heroism and redemption . Dealing with revenge, justice , ambition and redemption that turns out to be the main axis of the plot . This is a Bandoleros movie regarding outlaws in 19th century Andalucía, Spain, who alone or in bands , engulfed the region with merciless assaults and ominous murders , while authorities carried out terrible punishments and bloody executions

    The Man Who Was There
    TMDB3.0

    The Man Who Was There

    2013 · 30m · ES

    The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.

    Gauchito Gil
    TMDB4.2

    Gauchito Gil

    2020 · AR

    No overview available

    El brigadista

    TMDB3.4

    El brigadista

    1978 · 1h 59m · CU

    The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sent from their schools into the countryside to teach the peasants there how to read. Coinciding with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in this docudrama, 15-year-old Mario (Salvador Wood) has come to a tiny village in the Zapata swamps and gradually wins the villagers over to his task. At the same time, he receives an education in the realities of rural life from the hard-working peasants.

    To the Victory at Last
    TMDB3.5

    To the Victory at Last

    1997 · 1h 35m · AR

    The story of Che Guevara, featuring episodes from his childhood, his career as a medical student and work with lepers, and finally his life as a militant and guerrilla fighter.

    The Quinta's Ghost
    TMDB3.5

    The Quinta's Ghost

    2025 · 17m · ES

    In seclusion at La Quinta del Sordo, Goya confronts illness, memories, and haunting visions, exorcising his demons through the Black Paintings —sacrificing peace, sanity, and self to immortalize his torment.

    Serrallonga
    TMDB3.0

    Serrallonga

    2008 · 2h 50m · ES

    "Serrallonga" is the story of a bandit who becomes a legend, in a hard time when the struggle to survive was the main concern of a people enslaved by hunger and with banditry as one of the few exits from misery. Joan Sala, alias Serrallonga, is above all a rebel. Robberies and assaults make him admired by the people and his legend grows unstoppably until the end of his days.

    75 días
    TMDB2.9

    75 días

    2022 · ES

    On Friday, November 13th, 1992, three 14 years old girls mysteriously disappear when they head to a disco in a nearby town. 75 days later, their dead bodies were found in an advanced stage of decomposition, half buried in the undergrowth.

    Tramuntana
    TMDB4.0

    Tramuntana

    1991 · 1h 20m · ES

    In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at their longed-for destination. At the same time, they will be involved in the war waged by King James I to reconquer these lands held by the Muslims. Reaching the end of the journey will be an odyssey.

    About Spanish History Movies

    Spanish cinema

    Spanish cinema carries the surrealist streak of Buñuel through to Almodóvar's melodramas and a modern horror scene with real international reach. The post-Franco decades produced an unusually sharp break with what came before.

    History

    Historical films reconstruct the past, whether faithfully or as deliberate myth-making. The genre attracts big budgets and big performances, and it reveals as much about the era that produced the film as the one on screen.

    In this list

    Years covered
    1943–2026
    Best reviewed
    Society of the Snow (8.0)
    Often also
    Drama, Thriller, Documentary

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