Best mind-bending Spanish movies on Netflix in India

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

48 movies on Netflix in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 5.9. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.

1. Mirage (2018)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 9m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 7.4 (73.3K votes)

TwistyEdge-of-seatSerious

During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

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2. 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.

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3. 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.

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4. 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.

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5. 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

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6. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 39m · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 6.7 (16.9K votes)

TwistySlow-burnLow-stakesFunny

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

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7. The Crimes That Bind (2020)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 39m · Thriller, Crime · IMDb 6.7 (5.0K votes)

TwistySlow-burnMatureDark & gritty

When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.

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8. I Am Frankelda (2025)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 44m · Animation, Fantasy · IMDb 6.8 (2.3K votes)

Visually stunningTwisty

A gifted young writer in 19th-century Mexico journeys into her subconscious and comes face to face with characters from her own spooky stories.

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9. Murder by the Coast (2021)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 28m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 6.5 (2.8K votes)

Cold & detachedTwistyMatureDark & gritty

In 1999, teen Rocío Wanninkhof is murdered. Her mother's ex-partner, Dolores Vázquez, is suspected. Did she do it? A second victim reveals the truth.

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10. Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 31m · Drama · IMDb 6.5 (5.4K votes)

Slow-burnTwisty

Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?

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11. The Follies (2025)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 1m · Drama · IMDb 6.5 (648 votes)

Slow-burnTwisty

Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.

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12. The Tree of Blood (2018)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 10m · Drama · IMDb 6.4 (3.7K votes)

TwistySlow-burnMatureSerious

Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden wit

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13. Private Network: Who Killed Manuel Buendía? (2021)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 40m · Documentary, History · IMDb 6.8 (282 votes)

Cold & detachedDark & grittyDialogue-drivenTwisty

An account of the life and work of the famous Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía (1926-84) that seeks to unravel his murder and the links between Mexican politics and drug trafficking.

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14. Therapy Done Right (2026)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 37m · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 6.3 (1.6K votes)

Dialogue-drivenFunnyMatureTwisty

A psychoanalyst who's lost faith in traditional therapy crosses every boundary to help a blocked novelist in this cutting Argentine dark comedy.

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15. The Legacy of the Bones (2019)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 1m · Thriller, Crime · IMDb 6.4 (11.5K votes)

MatureTwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.

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16. The Invisible Guardian (2017)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 9m · Thriller, Crime · IMDb 6.4 (19.7K votes)

TwistyMatureDark & grittyCold & detached

When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector

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17. Pedro Páramo (2024)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 11m · A · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 6.3 (3.8K votes)

Slow-burnTwistyVisually stunningCold & detached

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

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18. Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time (2026)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 43m · Documentary · IMDb 5.8 (549 votes)

Cold & detachedDark & grittyDialogue-drivenTwisty

Yiya Murano poisoned her friends to cover up scams in 1970s Argentina and became a dark figure in popular culture. Freed in the 1990s, she reappeared as a pop icon. Today, her son Martín seeks to reveal her true face.

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19. Hurricane Season (2023)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 39m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 5.9 (1.1K votes)

TwistyCold & detachedMatureDark & gritty

When a group of teens finds a corpse floating in a canal, the brutal reality behind the perverse crime unravels a town's hidden secrets.

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20. Asphalt Goddess (2020)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 6m · Drama · IMDb 5.3 (320 votes)

TwistySlow-burnSerious

Max returns to her slum turned into the vocalist of a rock band. There, the memories await, the latest news and the truths that were silent for years: Sonia is a voice that speaks from the death.

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21. El Conde (2023)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 51m · A · Fantasy, Comedy · IMDb 6.3 (16.8K votes)

TwistyFunnyMatureDark & gritty

After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.

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22. The House of Flowers: The Movie (2021)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 26m · A · Drama · IMDb 5.6 (1.1K votes)

Twisty

The De La Mora siblings concoct a mischievous plan to break into their old family home to retrieve a hidden treasure of significant importance.

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23. Offering to the Storm (2020)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 19m · Crime, Thriller · IMDb 6.2 (8.7K votes)

TwistyCold & detachedMatureDark & gritty

Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.

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24. A Widow's Game (2025)

Movie · Spanish · 2h 2m · Thriller, Mystery · IMDb 6.2 (9.6K votes)

Cold & detachedMatureDark & grittyTwisty

When a man is found dead, the investigation shatters his widow's perfect facade and exposes a hidden double life in this thriller based on real events.

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25. Non Negotiable (2024)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 26m · U/A 16+ · Action, Thriller · IMDb 5.5 (1.4K votes)

Fast-pacedTwistyEdge-of-seatFunny

Hostage negotiator Alan Bender is called to rescue the president from a kidnapping, only to find himself also mediating to save his wife and marriage.

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26. Veronica (2017)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 45m · Horror · IMDb 6.2 (54.6K votes)

Dark & grittyTwistyEdge-of-seatCold & detached

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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27. Unknown Origins (2020)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 37m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 6.1 (8.2K votes)

MatureDark & grittyTwistyEdge-of-seat

In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man w

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28. The Chalk Line (2022)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 46m · Horror, Mystery · IMDb 6.1 (13.2K votes)

Dark & grittyTwistyEdge-of-seatSerious

After a couple finds a traumatized child of unknown origins, wife Paula must decipher the girl's strange behaviors to unlock her identity and dark past.

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29. Skins (2017)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 18m · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 6.0 (8.2K votes)

MatureDark & grittyTwistyVisually stunning

In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.

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30. Don't Listen (2020)

Movie · Spanish · 1h 38m · Drama, Horror · IMDb 6.1 (19.7K votes)

Dark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seatMature

After a tragic turn of events at the new home he's fixing up, Daniel hears a ghostly plea for help, spurring him to seek out a famous paranormal expert.

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