Spanish films please

[lemonsaretheonlyfruit]

Hi

My teen DD v rarely shows any interest in school so she surprised me last night when she said that she really wants to improve her spoken Spanish. I want to pounce on this whilst it lasts!

I speak french and told her I used to learn a lot from watching french films whilst still having the subtitles on.

I don't really know any Spanish films though. I have just found a list of current Spanish films on Netflix so will have a look through but I wondered if anyone had any of their own recommendations?

Fine with any sort of drama, Rom com, horror. Just nothing too political / heavy weight.

Thanks.

Tesis
KM 31
any of Guillermo Del Toros early films
Cronos
The Devils Backbone
Rec
Rec 2
The Blind Dead films
who can kill a child (an incredible film of the 70s)
La Cabina
the trilogy on netflix based on the books by Dolores Redondo

The Invisible guardian
the legacy of bones
offering to the storm

Money heist and elite on Netflix are both brilliant and are originally Spanish language. You can change the setting and add English subtitles

Spanish films are generally quite hard going! Good ones recommended here that are quite accesible e.g. Pedro Almodóvar

El Mar Adentro

Gosh get the tissues ready!!!!

Check out reviews online OP, Spanish films are intense (in a brilliant way) but depends how 'young' your daughter is and what she can tolerate in terms of themes, violence, sexual content

Spanish Language is not necessarily Spanish.

Love the Mexican road movie, Y Tu Mama Tambien.

Nobody has recommended these yet and I absolute loved them (Almodóvar is great but too much for me):

Netflix series:

Chicas de cable/cable girls (wonderful dramatic series about telephone workers in the 20s)

Gran Hotel (like downton abbey but better!)

Alta Mar (like downton abbey set on the high seas with the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen in it)

Velvet (like downton abbey set in a posh department store)

DH loved Elite but I haven’t seen it yet.

And if you can, so watch Handia/the giant on Netflix because it was written by a friend of mine and he won a Goya award for it and I’m so proud of him!

Motorcycle diaries is an amazing film - about young Che Guevara touring South America.

And relevant to a hot topic elsewhere on these baords, the Argentinian film "XXY" pulls no punches and features an amazing performance from its young star as a female playing a DSD MtF transitioner.

if she has a favourite show on Disney+ you can change the language