On Netflix you can enjoy the best series and also the best movies. Specifically this year 2023 there are a good number of Spanish films that will be released on this streaming platform, which is increasingly committed to national production with titles that, as happens with some series (“La casa de papel”) become in great international hits.
Police thrillers, bloody slashers, romantic comedies… Netflix prepares a year full of Spanish cinema for the first time
For this year 2023, the premiere of more than a dozen productions by directors such as JA Bayona (“The Impossible”, “Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom”) and Paco Plaza (“[REC]», «La abuela»), with performers such as Dani Rovira («Eight Basque surnames», «100 meters» or Belén Rueda («El orfanato», «El silencio en la ciudad blanca»).
-«Big Bad Wolf»: Gustavo Hernández directs Javier Gutiérrez and Adriana Ugarte in a police thriller that narrates the harrowing search for a murderer of girls. Premiere: January 27
-“Infested”: Patxi Amezcua directs Luis Zahera, who plays a detective who investigates what happened after the appearance of a young woman who had been presumed dead in an Asturian mining town. Premiere: February 3.
-“Blindly”: The brothers Alex and David Pastor direct this spin-off of the film of the same title starring Sandra Bullock in 2018 about a post-apocalyptic world decimated by a mysterious force that drives everyone who looks at it to take their own life, forcing them to wear bandages eyes to survive. This time the action takes place in Barcelona and the protagonist is Mario Casas, accompanied by Michelle Jenner and Leonardo Sbaraglia, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro…
-“The champion”: Caros Therón directs Dani Rovira in a film set in the world of soccer with a conflictive and impulsive young soccer star, whose behavior should lead to his role as a psychology professor.
-“The Criminal Readers Club”: Film attached to the slasher genre with a script by Carlos García Miranda about his own novel, Carlos Alonso Ojea directs Veki Velilla «(¡GARCÍA!») in front of a young cast that embodies a group of lovers of horror literature who They meet every week to share their hobby. Soon the threat of an anonymous writer looms over them who publishes a bloody novel on the Internet that has them as characters. The problems come when reality begins to imitate fiction.
-“It’s you”: Alauda Ruíz de Azúa (“Five little wolves”) directs a romantic comedy about a boy (Álvaro Cervantes) who has a power that, after kissing a girl, allows him to see her future. All his relationships end in rupture until one day, after kissing a girl, he sees that in the future she will be his wife and the mother of his children. The problem is that she is the girlfriend of his best friend.
-“Phenomena”: In this comedy, Carlos Therón directs Belén Rueda, Gracia Olayo, Toni Acosta and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, who play a group of specialists in paranormal phenomena who face an investigation into the strange events that happen to an antiques dealer, facing the most complex of their careers at a time when they are not exactly living their best stage.
-“Sister death”: Paco Plaza takes the viewer to an old convent converted into a school for girls where, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a novice with supernatural abilities arrives as a teacher who must unravel the mystery behind the disturbing events that take place there.
-“The Snow Society”: JA Bayona brings back to the cinema the true story that could already be seen on movie screens with “They live” (Frank Marshall, 1993) about the Chilean rugby team that was trapped in the Andes in 1972 after suffering a plane crash, having to face extreme decisions to survive.
-“Nowhere”: Directed by Albert Pintó, Anna Castillo is Nada, a pregnant immigrant who flees from a country at war hiding in a container on board a ship. After a storm, the container ends up adrift in the sea and Nada, who has just given birth, must fight for her own survival and that of her daughter who has just come into the world.
