Best dark & gritty Spanish movies in India

By the KyaDekhu team · Updated 23 October 2026 · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb

147 movies in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.0. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.

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   1. Wild Tales (2014)

   Movie · Spanish · 2h 2m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.1 (2.4L votes)

   FunnyTwistyMatureCold & detached

   Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

   Prime Video
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   2. Amores Perros (2000)

   Movie · Spanish · 2h 34m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.0 (2.7L votes)

   TwistyMatureVisually stunningDark & gritty

   A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

   MUBI
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   3. Society of the Snow (2023)

   Movie · Spanish · 2h 23m · Drama, History · IMDb 7.8 (1.8L votes)

   Visually stunningDark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seat

   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.

   Netflix
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   4. Argentina 1985 (2022)

   Movie · Spanish · 2h 21m · Drama, History · IMDb 7.6 (37.2K votes)

   Dark & grittyEdge-of-seatSerious

   In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

   Prime Video
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   5. Maria Full of Grace (2004)

   Movie · Spanish · 1h 41m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.4 (37.9K votes)

   MatureEdge-of-seatDark & gritty

   A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

   JioHotstar
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   6. El Infierno (2010)

   Movie · Spanish · 2h 28m · A · Action, Crime · IMDb 7.6 (14.2K votes)

   MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatCold & detached

   After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

   Netflix
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   7. Herod's Law (1999)

   Movie · Spanish · 2h 3m · Comedy, Crime · IMDb 7.7 (8.0K votes)

   FunnyCold & detachedDark & gritty

   In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while ass

   Netflix
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   8. The Platform (2019)

   Movie · Spanish · 1h 35m · A · Drama, Science Fiction · IMDb 7.0 (3.3L votes)

   TwistyDark & grittyMatureCold & detached

   A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

   Netflix
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   9. I'm No Longer Here (2019)

   Movie · Spanish · 1h 52m · Drama · IMDb 7.3 (10.6K votes)

   TwistyMatureDark & grittySlow-burn

   In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.

   Netflix
10. 

    10. God's Crooked Lines (2022)

    Movie · Spanish · 2h 35m · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 7.1 (31.2K votes)

    TwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

    Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.

    Netflix
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    11. The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo (2020)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 49m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 8.1 (2.3K votes)

    Dark & grittyDialogue-drivenMatureEdge-of-seat

    After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.

    Netflix
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    12. The Endless Trench (2019)

    Movie · Spanish · 2h 28m · Drama, History · IMDb 7.2 (8.0K votes)

    Slow-burnDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

    A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

    Netflix
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    13. When Evil Lurks (2023)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 40m · Horror, Thriller · IMDb 6.9 (65.3K votes)

    MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat

    When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

    JioHotstarPrime Video
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    14. The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)

    Movie · Spanish · 2h 23m · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 7.2 (6.8K votes)

    FunnyCold & detachedDark & grittyFast-paced

    TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporati

    Netflix
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    15. The Aerial (2007)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 39m · Science Fiction, Drama · IMDb 7.3 (5.0K votes)

    Slow-burnVisually stunningCold & detachedDark & gritty

    An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants.

    MUBI
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    16. Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 50m · Drama · IMDb 7.3 (4.8K votes)

    MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatSerious

    Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.

    MUBI
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    17. La Ciénaga (2001)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 41m · Drama · IMDb 7.0 (9.8K votes)

    Slow-burnCold & detachedDark & grittyLow-stakes

    Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken

    MUBI
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    18. The Settlers (2023)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 41m · Drama, Western · IMDb 6.9 (7.1K votes)

    MatureVisually stunningDark & grittyCold & detached

    Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

    MUBI
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    19. The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 51m · Drama, History · IMDb 6.8 (14.4K votes)

    Dark & grittyMatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seat

    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 docu

    Netflix
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    20. Marrowbone (2017)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 51m · Thriller, Horror · IMDb 6.7 (52.1K votes)

    TwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seatMature

    A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

    Prime Video
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    21. Outlaws (2021)

    Movie · Spanish · 2h 5m · Crime · IMDb 6.9 (5.7K votes)

    MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatCold & detached

    Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.

    Netflix
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    22. You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack (2024)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 43m · U/A 16+ · Documentary · IMDb 7.4 (1.5K votes)

    MatureDark & grittyDialogue-drivenCold & detached

    Through key testimonies, this documentary looks at a gang rape that took place during the 2016 San Fermín festival and sparked protests worldwide.

    Netflix
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    23. Afternoons of Solitude (2025)

    Movie · Spanish · 2h 6m · Documentary · IMDb 7.1 (2.2K votes)

    Slow-burnVisually stunningMatureDark & gritty

    The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.

    MUBI
24. 

    24. A Cop Movie (2021)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 47m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 7.0 (2.5K votes)

    Slow-burnDark & grittyCold & detached

    This documentary walks the line between fact and fiction, delving into corruption in the Mexican police through the experiences of two officers.

    Netflix
25. 

    25. Dance of the Forty One (2020)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 39m · Drama, History · IMDb 6.8 (6.2K votes)

    Slow-burnMatureDark & grittySerious

    Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.

    Netflix
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    26. 11M: Terror in Madrid (2022)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 32m · Documentary · IMDb 6.9 (3.3K votes)

    Dialogue-drivenCold & detachedDark & grittySerious

    Survivors and insiders recount March 11, 2004's terrorist attack on Madrid, including the political crisis it ignited and the hunt for the perpetrators.

    Netflix
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    27. Adú (2020)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 59m · Drama · IMDb 6.8 (5.8K votes)

    Dark & grittyVisually stunningEdge-of-seatSlow-burn

    In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against po

    Netflix
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    28. Rapture (1980)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 50m · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 6.8 (4.1K votes)

    TwistySlow-burnDark & grittyMature

    José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

    MUBI
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    29. The Red Virgin (2024)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 54m · Drama, History · IMDb 6.8 (4.1K votes)

    MatureTwistyDark & grittySerious

    Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.

    Prime Video
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    30. Ema (2019)

    Movie · Spanish · 1h 47m · Drama · IMDb 6.7 (10.1K votes)

    MatureVisually stunningDark & grittyCold & detached

    Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.

    MUBI