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Spanish from Spain

  • La Casa de Papel (Money Heist), (student recommended) – Eight thieves take hostages and lock themselves in the Royal Mint of Spain as a criminal mastermind manipulates the police to carry out his plan. Starring:Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño.
  • The Cook of Castegar – A 18th century drama/romance set in Madrid with a royal court twist.
  • High Seas (Altamar) – A glamorous 1940’s luxury cruise ship travelling from Spain to Brazil becomes a floating crime scene.
  • Machos Alpha – A comedy about middle-aged male friends in Madrid.
  • The Asunta Case – a true-crime mini-series.
  • The innocent (El inocente) – An accidental killing lands a young man in a web of nightmare intrigue.

Spanish from Latin America

  • Bolivar – Fantastic historical drama and love story between Simon Bolivar and Manuelita.  Set in the 1800’s, with beautiful period clothes at gives a background about the alliance that developed betwee Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia that gave rise to their independence from Spain
  • Madre solo hay dos (Daughter from another mother) – Witty mexican comedy about two women who realize their babies were accidentaly swaped at birth.
  • La Casa de Las Flores (The house of flowers) – a hit, high-drama Mexican dark comedy about an affluent family desperate to protect their picture-perfect public image.
  • Pablo Escobar, el patrón del mal. – A classic Colombian Telenovela.
  • The Queen of Flow – a music drama. After seventeen years of wrongful imprisonment in New York, a talented Reggaeton songwriter returns to Colombia to seek fierce revenge on the man who stole her music and ruined her life.
  • La Reina del Sur – A humble young Mexican woman is forced to flee her home country after her cartel-pilot boyfriend is executed.
  • Miss Adrenaline: A Tale of Twins (Romina Podesora) – a fierce, competitive dirt-biker infiltrates high society by assuming the identify of her long-lost identical twin sister.
  • The Road to Love (Los Briceño) – A Colombian romantic comedy-telenovela. When “La Chiqui” the youngest daughter of a deeply traditional, macho family of truck drivers, finds herself pregnant out of wedlock, her father kicks her out of the house. Refusing to back down she becomes a truck driver to survive.
  • The Secret of the River (El secreto del rio) – A young boy moves to a small village in Oaxaca Mexico and makes a deep friendship, a beautifully and deeply emotional Mexican suspense drama.
  • El Rey, Vicente Fernández – An emotional, musical biographical drama detailing the epic, rags-to riches life story and legendary career of Mexico’s most beloved ranchera music icon.