Top 10 Movies to Learn Spanish

Want to initiate, improve or perfect your Spanish while having a fun time? Discover our selection of the best movies to learn Spanish without even realizing it!

If learning a language often goes through traditional courses or teaching manuals, limiting itself to this can quickly become tedious. So yes, this way of learning remains effective. But watching movies in their original language is a very useful way to improve your level by joining the use to the pleasant. And why are films an excellent way to learn Spanish? It is both simple, effective and entertaining.

In fact, watching a Spanish film improves your oral understanding, vocabulary lexicon and grammar. It is therefore an excellent way to learn or improve your level in Spanish while spending a relaxing moment. In addition, watching a Spanish movie is a rather pleasant way that will help you learn more about the cultural and social aspects of the language.

If you start in Spanish, start watching movies with subtitles. When you feel more comfortable, go to the Spanish subtitles. And for those who wish to go further, remove the subtitles and you will see that even without understanding each word, the understanding of the film is easily done. Because finally, both French and Spanish come from Latin, which gives them many similarities.

So to improve your level while entertaining you, discover our selection of the top 10 films to learn Spanish!

1. Travel books

Released in 2004, “Travel Books” or Diarios de motocicleta is an excellent film to learn Spanish while discovering the story of Che Guevara said “the Che”, a powerful figure of the revolution.

Inspired by Ernesto Guevara’s books, the film tells the motorcycle trip of Che and his friend Alberto Granado through South America. It is this journey, strong in encounters and witness to social injustices, that will transform the young Che Guevara and push him to change things.

Beautiful road movie which, in addition to being a perfect film to learn South American Spanish, will make you discover the beauty of South America with its most breathtaking landscapes among each other.

2. The New Wild

Selected to represent Argentina at the Oscar for Best Movie in Foreign Language, “New Wild” or Relatos salvajes is an Argentinian-Spanish film composed of 6 rather crazy independent stories. Indeed, the characters will cross the boundary between civilization and barbarism. Between tragedy, back of the past or betrayal in love, the loss of control turns into undeniable pleasure.

This film is one of the best to learn Spanish while discovering the Argentine accent. Also, it will fit perfectly to beginners who love comedy and suspense. Because if a story is not well understood, there are 5 more to catch up!

3. The Labyrinth of Pan

Directed by Guillermo del Toro in 2006, “Le Labyrinthe de Pan” is a Spanish-Mexican film that blends with perfection drama and fantasy. It is the story of the young Ofelia who finds his handsome military father in the north of Spain. In post-war times, the little one will discover an extraordinary underground world.

This film, which won many prizes, owes its success to its atypical dimension, oscillating between fantastic world and cruel reality. An excellent way to learn Spanish while diving into a unique and dreamlike world!

4. Coco

How do I evoke the best movies to learn Spanish without mentioning an animation film? Coco is an excellent cartoon to discover more about Mexican culture. Directed by Pixar, he is the 139th animated feature of Disney studios.

The cartoon takes place in México for the famous feast of Día de los Muertos : a tradition full of colors where we celebrate the dead in the family in joy and joy. If the feast of the dead is celebrated mainly in Mexico, other countries like Guatemala are also part of it.

This film, very poetic and splendid visually, is ideal for beginners in Spanish, the opportunity to review grammatical bases while singing. But it also allows the general public to learn more about Mexican traditions and how they celebrate the dead, which changes a lot of our western version.

5. Bad Education

Released in 2004, La mala educación is a film made by Pedro Almodóvar, one of the emblematic filmmakers of the new Spanish wave. Treating with a sensitive subject of a well-formed plot, this film is an original way to deepen your Spanish level.

The story speaks of two boys who were known and loved on the benches of a religious school in the early 1960s. But they also suffered the ill-treatment of a pedophile priest, Father Manolo. Several years later, these characters will find themselves and their lives will remain forever marked.

6. Even rain

Directed by Icíar Bollaín, También la lluvia is a committed film that was released in 2010. The story takes place in 2000 in Cochabamba during the water war, a historical social movement in Bolivia aimed at preventing the government from privatizing water.

Thus, the film recounts the tormented journey of a team of Spanish filmmakers who arrive to turn their project in Bolivia. They thus find themselves inside this struggle, from this fight for justice that will upset their existence.

Finally, También la lluvia is one of the best films to learn Spanish while learning about colonization in South America. And to finish in beauty, enjoy the film to admire the splendour of Bolivia's landscapes!

7. And... your mother too

Released in 2001, Y tu mamá también is a Mexican film directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Using a rather raw Spanish language with some rather liberated scenes, this road-movie tells the crazy journey of two teenagers from the Mexican bourgeoisie who go on the roads with a young woman.

There is nothing better than this film to learn Mexican Spanish while discovering its typical expressions: no mames guey , pendejo , chingar , pinch ...

8. Inside

His original title La Cara oculta , “Inside” is a film that will teach you Spanish with chills. Released in 2011, this hispano-Colombian thriller takes place in a huge, isolated home owned by an orchestra conductor. This one, suspected of murdering his former girlfriend, makes him move home Fabiana, the new...

Intriguing, anxious and well played, it is one of the best films to learn Spanish while working both accents, Colombian and Spanish, as well as their expressions.

9. Volver

Once again directed by Pedro Almodovar, this film is a must-see in Spanish cinema. As well as having his place in the official selection of the Festival de Cannes in 2006 with the best scenario prize. It is in the heart of Madrid that “three generations of women survive the wind solano , fire, madness, superstition and even death thanks to goodness, lies and vitality without limits", according to the words of the director.

The informal language of the film and its life-long dialogues between the characters will allow you to learn Spanish in particular by living in the familiar discourse. It is a beautiful trip to Spain that awaits you!

10. nor exchanged

To finish this selection of the best films, here is a comedy that invites you to spend a fun evening while learning Spanish. Directed by Eugenio Derbez, the film tells the story of Valentin, a man who finds himself obliged to take care of his daughter who suddenly appears in his life.

This comedy is ideal for those who start in Spanish. Indeed, Mexican Spanish is quite clear and easier to understand than that of Spain!