Best dark & gritty Spanish web series on Netflix in India

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

118 web series on Netflix in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.6. Newest addition: Inside the Circle, added to Netflix on 7 Oct. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.

1. Money Heist (2017)

Web series · Spanish · 3 seasons · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.2 (6.2L votes)

TwistyEdge-of-seatVisually stunningFast-paced

To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Co

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2. The Innocent (2021)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · A · Crime, Mystery · IMDb 7.8 (45.1K votes)

MatureTwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

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.

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3. Locked Up (2015)

Web series · Spanish · 4 seasons · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.8 (31.1K votes)

MatureTwistyFast-pacedEdge-of-seat

Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.

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4. Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord (2012)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.4 (7.2K votes)

MatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seatTwisty

Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Cong

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5. El Chapo (2017)

Web series · Spanish · 3 seasons · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.8 (22.8K votes)

MatureVisually stunningCold & detachedEdge-of-seat

A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.

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6. El marginal (2016)

Web series · Spanish · 5 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.1 (5.7K votes)

MatureTwistyEdge-of-seatFast-paced

An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.

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7. Elite (2018)

Web series · Spanish · 8 seasons · A · Crime, Mystery · IMDb 7.1 (1.0L votes)

TwistyMatureFast-pacedDark & gritty

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.

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8. The Eternaut (2025)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · U/A 16+ · Drama, Action & Adventure · IMDb 7.2 (38.0K votes)

Visually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & gritty

After a devastating toxic snowfall kills millions, Juan Salvo and a group of survivors in Buenos Aires must resist an invisible threat from another world.

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9. Monarca (2019)

Web series · Spanish · 2 seasons · Drama · IMDb 7.8 (4.1K votes)

MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedVisually stunning

After 20 years, Ana María returns to Mexico and vies for control of her family's tequila empire as it threatens to crumble under corruption and secrets.

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10. La Reina del Sur (2011)

Web series · Spanish · 3 seasons · A · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.8 (4.0K votes)

MatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & gritty

After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...

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11. Berlin (2023)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · A · Drama, Action & Adventure · IMDb 7.1 (43.7K votes)

Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatFast-paced

During his glory days, Berlin and a gang assembled in Paris for one of his greatest plans ever: stealing 44 million euros' worth of jewels in one night.

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12. Raising Voices (2024)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · A · Drama · IMDb 7.2 (7.6K votes)

TwistyMatureDark & grittyCold & detached

When a 17-year-old reports a sexual assault at her high school, an investigation upends her life and tests her relationships.

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13. Wrong Side of the Tracks (2022)

Web series · Spanish · 4 seasons · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.1 (8.0K votes)

MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatTwisty

When his teenage granddaughter falls victim to the drug dealers overtaking his neighborhood, a fed-up war veteran takes matters into his own hands.

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14. The Great Heist (2020)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.3 (3.3K votes)

Cold & detachedEdge-of-seatVisually stunningDark & gritty

Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.

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15. Green Frontier (2019)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Crime, Mystery · IMDb 7.2 (3.2K votes)

TwistyVisually stunningDark & grittyMature

When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.

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16. The Cartel (2008)

Web series · Spanish · 2 seasons · Action & Adventure, Drama · IMDb 7.9 (1.1K votes)

MatureEdge-of-seatCold & detachedFast-paced

The Cartel follows ten friends, all of them members of a dangerous drug cartel, whose ambition for power and money will cause them to eventually kill each other. For it is an undeniable truth that, in this business, you always lose.

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17. Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (2019)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Drama · IMDb 7.2 (2.2K votes)

StraightforwardDark & grittySerious

This gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.

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18. Ingobernable (2017)

Web series · Spanish · 2 seasons · War & Politics, Drama · IMDb 7.0 (3.7K votes)

TwistyMatureCold & detachedEdge-of-seat

The First Lady of Mexico has big plans to improve conditions for the country. As she starts to lose faith in her husband, President Diego Nava, she finds herself at a crossroad where she will need to find a way to deal with a great challenge.

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19. The Mess You Leave Behind (2020)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 6.8 (12.3K votes)

TwistyMatureCold & detachedDark & gritty

A teacher starts her job at a high school but is haunted by a suspicious death that occurred there weeks before and begins fearing for her own life.

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20. Belascoaran, PI (2022)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.3 (1.8K votes)

Dark & grittyEdge-of-seatVisually stunningCold & detached

Héctor Belascoarán leaves his corporate job and dull marriage to become an independent detective and tackle shocking criminal cases in 1970s Mexico City.

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21. Criminal: Spain (2019)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.9 (5.3K votes)

TwistyDialogue-drivenCold & detachedEdge-of-seat

Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost.

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22. The Asunta Case (2024)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.8 (10.1K votes)

Cold & detachedDark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seat

After two parents report that their 12-year-old daughter Asunta is missing, the investigation soon turns against them.

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23. High Seas (2019)

Web series · Spanish · 3 seasons · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.8 (9.3K votes)

TwistyVisually stunningDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.

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24. Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? (2020)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 7.0 (3.0K votes)

Cold & detachedEdge-of-seatDark & grittySerious

Documentary series on the circumstances surrounding the death of María Marta García Belsunce, one of the most controversial criminal cases in Argentina.

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25. The Alcàsser Murders (2019)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 7.0 (3.0K votes)

MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedDialogue-driven

New interviews and an up-to-date analysis of evidence shed light on the 1992 murders of three girls in Spain and their profound impact on the nation.

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26. The Dead Girls (2025)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.0 (2.4K votes)

MatureCold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

The story of the Baladro sisters, known as “Las Poquianchis”, who built a brothel empire and became merciless killers in 1960s Mexico.

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27. Crime Diaries: The Candidate (2019)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.5 (1.0K votes)

Dark & grittyEdge-of-seatCold & detachedSerious

In 1994, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio's assassination sends his dying widow racing to uncover who did it.

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28. The Barrier (2020)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 6.8 (4.7K votes)

Visually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & grittyMature

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.

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29. The Five Juanas (2021)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 6.9 (2.7K votes)

TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & gritty

Five women with the same birthmark set out to unravel the truth about their pasts and discover a tragic web of lies spun by a powerful politician.

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30. Somos. (2021)

Web series · Spanish · 1 season · Drama · IMDb 7.1 (1.5K votes)

MatureCold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

The lives of the people of Allende, a Mexican border town, are overtaken by a powerful cartel's operations, leading to tragedy. Inspired by true events.

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