The 40 most popular spanish mystery TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


La promesa
2023 · ES
In 1913 Spain, a woman gets a job at the palace of La Promesa as a reward for saving the marquesses' son - but nobody knows that she has her own plans, which involve avenging her mother's death and finding her missing brother.


Elite
2018 · ES
When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.


Red Queen
2024 · ES
A gifted woman's intellect brings chance to lead covert European police force. But it backfires, costing her everything. Following murder at her home and kidnapped heiress, her ex-supervisor enlists a policeman's aid to reinstate her.


Billionaires' Bunker
2025 · ES
When a group of billionaires takes shelter in a luxury bunker, an old feud between two families resurfaces amid an unprecedented global conflict.


Red Eagle
2009 · ES
Red Eagle is a series of adventure and intrigue on the courage, nobility, friendship and love. The protagonist is an unsung hero of justice of the seventeenth century, known by the nickname of Red Eagle, who helps the weak and who is determined to uncover the conspiracy behind the murder of his young wife.


The Innocent
2021 · ES
An accidental killing leads a man down a dark hole of intrigue and murder. Just as he finds love and freedom, one phone call brings back the nightmare.


Oasis
2026 · ES
Oasis is the most luxurious holiday resort in the country — a paradise reserved for the wealthiest families, featuring private beaches, VIP facilities, and impenetrable security. The perfect place to spend the best summer of your life. But everything falls apart when the police storm the resort to investigate a mysterious disappearance. In such an exclusive place, everyone is a suspect — and no one can leave until the culprit is found.


30 Coins
2020 · ES
Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.


Rapa
2022 · ES
When high school teacher Tomás finds the bloodied, dying mayoress of his hometown high up on his local cliffs, he not only becomes obsessed with the case but turns into its first suspect. Though solving the case is local cop Maite's job, Tomás doesn't care if his own private investigation gets in her way. Solving the case might just give Tomás' life the purpose he has been silently dreaming of for so long. Though clashing more than once, the two of them come close as can be to finding the murderer: Norma, Tomas' very own physiotherapist. She killed the mayoress in a fit of rage after finding out one of her many dark secrets - one that lies many years behind but one that has deeply affected her and her family. A twist of fate has it, however, that Norma remains undiscovered; her former fear and powerlessness turn to empowerment and confidence. Then a second murder stirs up the waters. Now an unlikely team, Maite and Tomás resume the hunt for a murderer who is closer than they imagine.


The Boat
2011 · ES
A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and aware that we only have each other, the ship will become their only home.


Grand Hotel
2011 · ES
A young man arrives at the Grand Hotel, an ideal place in the middle of the wilderness to investigate his sister's disappearance. What he ignores is that he's about to meet his greater love: the pretty and seductive daughter of the Hotel's owner. Between this young couple, of different social classes, a very passionate love will be born. A dangerous romance will be entwined with the mysteries and secrets hidden between the walls of the Grand Hotel. In The Grand Hotel no one is who we think it is, no one is free of hazards or suspicious. A complex web of lies, secrets and betrayal awaits...


City of Shadows
2025 · ES
A gruesome crime has taken place in La Pedrera – Casa Milà: a burned body is found on the facade of Gaudí's iconic building. Inspector Milo Malart, previously suspended for misconduct by the Mossos d'Esquadra (Mossos of the Squadron), returns to Barcelona to find the perpetrator along with Sub-Inspector Rebeca Garrido.


Cuarto Milenio
2005 · ES
No overview available


The Boarding School: Las Cumbres
2021 · ES
In an inaccessible place between the mountains and isolated from the world, a school is located next to an old monastery. The students are rebellious and problematic young people who live under the strict and severe discipline imposed by the center to reintegrate them into society. The surrounding forest is home to ancient legends, threats that are still valid and that will immerse them in terrifying adventures.


Muted
2023 · ES
Sergio hasn't spoken since the day he murdered his parents. Six years later, a teen girl may be the key to revealing the whole story.


The Final Problem
2026 · ES
In the spring of 1959, a retired actor, who previously played Sherlock Holmes, must investigate a murder at a small hotel on a tiny island near Mallorca.


Tales to Keep You Awake
1966 · ES
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.


You Would Do It Too
2023 · ES
A bus is hijacked by three robbers—who end up dead before they can get away. Every passenger's story is the same: A hooded man saved the day. As the case unfolds, the line between hero and criminal begins to blur.


The Head
2020 · ES
In an isolated and inaccessible Antarctic research station in which winter has fallen on the South Pole and the sun will soon disappear for the next six months, a small team, known as the Winterers, remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research. Renowned biologist Arthur Wilde is determined to find a solution to climate change, but his quest turns into a nightmare when several of his esteemed scientists suddenly begin to die.


The Barrier
2020 · ES
One family’s fight for survival in a future dystopian Madrid illustrates the disparity between two worlds separated by a fence — and so much more.


Los misterios de Laura
2009 · ES
With her intuition and instinct, Laura Lebrel del Bosque, an innocent and intelligent police inspector with very original methods, naturally solves impossible crimes, dismantles alibis, and figures out who the murderer in every episode is. Meanwhile, her marriage with inspector Jacobo is not going through its best phase, she has to deal with her duties as a housewife and a mother of two very naughty five-year-old twins, and her workmate Martín cannot help getting into trouble.


That Night
2026 · ES
When a young, naïve single mother gets embroiled in a murder during an island getaway, her sisters rush to help. But they only make things worse.


The Snow Girl
2023 · ES
When a girl disappears in Málaga, a young journalist becomes fiercely determined to uncover the truth, risking everything to bring closure to the family.


Now and Then
2022 · ES
On the eve of college graduation, six best friends embark on an epic weekend to celebrate—but it takes a fatal turn. Nearly 20 years later, the survivors are reluctantly reunited by a blackmail text threatening to expose the truth about that fateful night.


Pura sangre
2026 · ES
No overview available


Traición
2017 · ES
No overview available


Instinto
2019 · ES
Marco Mur is an attractive, successful businessman, but a trauma from his past prevents him from getting emotionally involved with women. Instead, he has intimate encounters in a club where no one knows anyone else. But his past returns and now Marco must face it and all the other conflicts of his life.


Angel or Demon
2011 · ES
No overview available


The Pier
2019 · ES
High-profile architect Alexandra faces her worst nightmare when she gets a call from local cop Conrado to identify her husband Oscar's body, found on a pier in the beautiful Albufera landscape outside Valencia. Suicide? How can it be when they had made plans for their future just hours ago? But it only gets worse: Oscar had been leading a double-life with another woman, Veronica. Who is this woman? Who was the man she loved for 15 years? And what happened that fatal night on the pier?


Burning Body
2023 · ES
When a police officer is murdered and set on fire, all eyes focus on two other agents: his girlfriend and her lover.


The Marquis
2024 · ES
Summer of 1975, five people die on a farm in Paradas, Seville. Two years later, Onofre returns to his hometown to investigate the event, which has caused great division among the neighbors. His investigation takes him to different environments and characters, among them the Marquis of Bahia. Always as a fiction, we will reveal how this crime was conceived.


The Crystal Cuckoo
2025 · ES
Hoping to learn more about her heart donor, a young doctor arrives in a mountain town where decades of mysterious tragedies plague the small community.


Two Graves
2025 · ES
When the disappearance of two teen girls shocks a quiet coastal town, a bereft grandmother risks everything to uncover the truth and seek revenge.


Stolen Away
2020 · ES
Searching for his kidnapped daughter, Antonio sets off a series of events affecting scores of people when he maneuvers to be sent to prison in Colombia.


Toy Boy
2019 · ES
After seven years in a Málaga prison, a male stripper is released pending retrial and sets out to prove his lover framed him for her husband's murder.


Segunda muerte
2024 · ES
In a small town in Cantabria, a young auxiliary police officer finds the body of an elderly lady who has recently passed away. The mystery lies in the fact that it is the body of Juliana Cobián, who had passed away seven years ago. Who was buried in her place, then? When Juliana’s coffin is exhumed, another woman’s body is found inside: it is Soledad’s, Juliana’s daughter that, according to all the neighbours, had left the town twenty years before. What lies behind this second death?


Sandra, The Fairytale Detective
2009 · ES
Sandra, The Fairytale Detective is a Spanish TV series. Created by Imira Productions. It is an animated program aimed at young children that attempts to combine the genres of fairy tales and detective novels. A few years back, Imira Entertainment sought a way to combine those two concepts while simultaneously creating one of the most inventive cartoons in years. Now, the company is taking its proven success and shopping it around a number of new locations, bringing Sandra to TG4 in Ireland and RSI in Switzerland. The Fairytale Detective is accompanied by her pal Fo the Elf, a 508 year old assistant who gathers Sandra’s cases, as well as Rachel, Sandra’s best pal. As if the mysteries weren’t tough enough, Markus will appear on occasion, hoping to spoil the day by bullying Sandra. Thankfully, though, Sandra always finds her way.


Salvador
2026 · ES
During a violent confrontation arranged between radical fans of two football clubs, Salvador Aguirre, an ambulance driver, rescues his injured daughter Milena, a member of the ultra group, which defends racist, violent and homophobic values, totally opposed to those he instilled in her.


1992
2024 · ES
After the death of her husband, a grieving widow and a tormented ex-cop investigate a series of murders apparently related to the Universal Expo held in Seville in 1992.


Eurocops
1988 · DE
No overview available
Spanish television has become one of streaming's biggest export success stories, particularly in heist thrillers and teen drama, with formats that get remade worldwide.
Mystery series stretch a central question across a season, which lets them develop suspects and setting far past what a film allows. The form's risk is the ending, and its reward is the slow build.