Category
page 1Films based on Spanish novels

The Ninth Gate
1999 film directed by Roman Polanski

Viridiana
Viridiana () is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican surrealist comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and produced by Gustavo Alatriste. It is loosely based on the 1895 novel Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós.

Tristana
1970 film by Luis Buñuel

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921 film by Rex Ingram

Alatriste
Alatriste is a 2006 Spanish epic historical war film directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, based on the main character of a series of novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Adventures of Captain Alatriste ().

Nazarín
Nazarín () is a 1959 Mexican satirical drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós.

Él
1953 film by Luis Buñuel

Cell 211
2009 film by Daniel Monzón

Black Bread
2010 film by Agustí Villaronga

Dias contados
1994 film by Imanol Uribe

The Ages of Lulu
1990 film by Bigas Luna

The South
1983 film by Víctor Erice

L'Amore
1948 film by Roberto Rossellini

Torrent
1926 film by Monta Bell

Palm Trees in the Snow
2015 film by Fernando González Molina

El Lazarillo de Tormes
1959 film by César Fernández Ardavín

The Temptress
1926 film by Mauritz Stiller, Fred Niblo

The Bohemian Girl
1936 film by Hal Roach, Charley Rogers, James W. Horne

The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955 film by Mario Camerini

La colmena
1982 film by Mario Camus

El Cochecito
1960 film by Marco Ferreri

Unknown Origins
2020 film directed by David Galán Galindo

The Living Forest
2001 film

Cold Skin
2017 film directed by Xavier Gens

The Invisible Guardian
2017 film by Fernando González Molina

The Turkish Passion
1994 film by Vicente Aranda

Who Can Kill a Child?
1976 film by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

Voyage to Nowhere
1986 film by Fernando Fernán Gómez

Soldiers of Salamina
2003 film by David Trueba

Summer Rain
2006 film by Antonio Banderas

Enemies of Women
1923 film by Alan Crosland

Offering to the Storm
2020 film directed by Fernando González Molina

The Fencing Master
1992 adventure film directed by Pedro Olea

El bosque animado
1987 film by José Luis Cuerda

The Weakness of the Bolshevik
2003 film by Manuel Martín Cuenca

The Sleeping Voice
2011 film by Benito Zambrano

Bulgarian Lovers
2003 film by Eloy de la Iglesia

The Holy Innocents
1984 film by Mario Camus

Beyond the Garden
1996 film by Pedro Olea

El Pisito
1960 film by Marco Ferreri

Mare Nostrum
1926 film by Rex Ingram

The Dumbfounded King
1991 film by Imanol Uribe

Outlaws
2021 film directed by Daniel Monzón

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City
2019 film directed by Daniel Calparsoro

Un amor
2023 film

Tiempo después
2018 film by José Luis Cuerda

Carol's Journey
2002 film by Imanol Uribe

Out in the Open
2019 film by Benito Zambrano

Stories from the Kronen
1995 film by Montxo Armendáriz

God's Crooked Lines
2022 Spanish film

Salve Maria
2024 film by Mar Coll

Advantages of Travelling by Train
2019 film by Aritz Moreno

The Shanghai Spell
2002 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba

If They Tell You I Fell
1989 film by Vicente Aranda

Valley of the Dead
2021 film directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera and Alberto de Toro

The Three-Cornered Hat
1934 film

The Year of the Flood
2004 film by Jaime Chávarri

Plenilunio
Plenilune () or Full Moon is a 2000 Spanish film directed by Imanol Uribe and written by Elvira Lindo, consisting of an adaptation of the novel Plenilunio by Antonio Muñoz Molina. It stars Miguel Ángel Solá, Adriana Ozores and Juan Diego Botto alongside Fernando Fernán Gómez, Charo López, Chete Lera and María Galiana.

Scent of a Crime
1988 film directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

Pan de limón con semillas de amapola
2021 film directed by Benito Zambrano