List of Spanish Civil War films

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Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films which include events of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) in the narrative.{{cite web |url=https://www.educomunicacion.es/cineyeducacion/historia_guerracivil.htm |title=La guerra civil española en el cine |last=Caparrós Lera |first=J. M. |date=2006 |website=Cine y educación |publisher=ABCD las Artes y las Letras}}{{cite web |url=https://historicodigital.com/peliculas-sobre-la-segunda-republica-y-la-guerra-civil.html |title=Películas sobre la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil |website= Histórico Digital|date=7 June 2020 }}{{cite journal |url=https://roderic.uv.es/items/982cb1b9-2ce6-4d40-bc45-e16582b66266 |title=España en armas: el cine de la guerra civil española, ciclo de cine |last=Sánchez-Biosca |first=Vicente |date=2007 |website=RODERIC Repository |publisher=Universitat de València}}{{cite web |url=https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Comunicacion/%20article/view/21686 |title=La Guerra Civil española en el cine actual: Encontrarás Dragones |date=2012 |website=Revistas Científicas de la Editorial Universidad de Sevilla}}{{cite web |url=https://memoriatransicion.unizar.es/materiales%20cientificos/F._Roncero,_la_Guerra_Civil_en_el_cine.pdf |title=LA GUERRA CIVIL VISTA A TRAVÉS DEL CINE ESPAÑOL DE FICCIÓN: UNA MIRADA DESDE LA DEMOCRACIA |last=Moreno |first=Fernando Roncero |website=Universidad de Zaragoza |publisher=Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha}}{{cite web |url=https://cdsa.aacademica.org/000-019/635.pdf |title=La Guerra Civil Española a traves del cine. |last=Isequilla |first=Rodrigo Pedro |date=2017 |website=Acta Académica |publisher=Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata}}{{cite web |url=https://cris.unibo.it/retrieve/e1dcb338-a0f2-7715-e053-1705fe0a6cc9/20289-Texto%20do%20artigo-81980-1-10-20211222.pdf |title=La guerra civil española en el cine como fuente historiográfica: la Andalucía del filme La Trinchera Infinita (2019) y la reconstrucción digital de un fascismo invisible |last=Pérez |first=Manuel Blanco |date=2019 |website=Università di Bologna |publisher=Tempo e Argumento}}

For short films about the Spanish Civil War, see the List of World War II short films.

For films about the Spanish Maquis see List of films about the Spanish Maquis.

1930s

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1937

|Spain

|Dawn of Hope

|Aurora de esperanza

|Antonio Sau Olite

|Drama.

1937

|United States

|Love Under Fire

|

|George Marshall

|Crime, Drama, Romance, War.

1937

|United States

|{{sort|Last Train|The Last Train from Madrid}}

|

|James P. Hogan

|Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War. Refugees flee bombing of Madrid

1938

|United States

|Blockade

|

|William Dieterle

|Drama, Romance, War. Peasant supports the Republic

1938

|Nazi Germany

|Comrades at Sea

|Kameraden auf See

|Heinz Paul

|War. German sailors save Spanish civilians at the beginning of the Civil War

1938

|Mexico

|Refugees in Madrid

|Refugiados en Madrid

|Alejandro Galindo

|Drama, Romance, War. Refugees in Madrid

1938–39

|France
Spain

|Days of Hope or Man's Hope

|Espoir: Sierra de Teruel

|Boris Peskine
André Malraux

|Drama, War. Shows defense of the 2nd Spanish Republic by the Republican air force, filmed on location in northeastern Spain. Includes scenes of street fighting and a bombing raid. Based on a novel Man's Hope.

1939

|Italy

|Carmen Among the Reds

|Carmen fra i rossi

|Edgar Neville

|War. Tragic love between two Nationalist agents among the Republicans{{efn|Filmed at the same time of Frente de Madrid, but with some different members of the cast (for example the male protagonist is Fosco Giachetti instead of Rafael Rivelles).}} Based on an unknown novel.

1939

|Italy
Spain

|Front of Madrid

|Frente de Madrid

|Edgar Neville

|Tragic love between two Nationalist agents among the Republicans{{efn|Filmed at the same time of Carmen fra i rossi, but with some different members of the cast (for example the male protagonist is Rafael Rivelles instead of Fosco Giachetti).}} Based on an unknown novel.

1940s

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1940

|Nazi Germany

|Request Concert

|Wunschkonzert

|Eduard von Borsody

|Musical, Romance, War. Condor Legion

1940

|United States

|Arise, My Love

|

|Mitchell Leisen

|Comedy, Drama, Romance. Spanish Civil War through French capitulation, 1940

1940

|Italy
Spain

|{{sort|Man|The Man of the Legion}}

|L'uomo della legione

|Romolo Marcellini

|Drama, War. Italian veteran of the War of Ethiopia volunteers to fight for the Falange in Spain

1940

|Italy
Spain

|{{sort|Siege|The Siege of the Alcazar}}

|L'assedio dell'Alcazar
Sin novedad en el Alcázar

|Augusto Genina

|Drama, War. Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, 1936

1940

|Italy

|{{sort|Thrill|The Thrill of the Skies}}

|L'ebbrezza del cielo

|Giorgio Ferroni

|A group of Italian aspiring young pilots construct a glider and then volunteer for service in the Spanish Civil War

1941

|Spain

|Because i saw you cry

|Porque te vi llorar

|Juan de Orduña

|Drama.

1941

|Spain

|The Cruiser Baleares

|El crucero Baleares

|Enrique del Campo

|War. Spanish cruiser Baleares, Battle of Cape Palos (1938)

1941

|Spain

|{{sort|Squadron|The Squadron}}

|Escuadrilla

|Antonio Román

|Drama, War. Two pilots of the Falange

1942

|Soviet Union

|Lad from Our Town

|Парень из нашего города

|Aleksandr Stolper
Boris Ivanov

|Drama, War. Based on the play Lad from Our Town.

1942

|Spain

|Wedding in hell

|Boda en el infierno

|Antonio Román

|Drama, War.

1942

|Spain

|Race

|Raza

|José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

|Biography, Drama, History, War.

1942

|Spain

|Red and Black

|Rojo y negro

|Carlos Arévalo Calvet

|Drama, War. Falange's fifth column in Madrid

1943

|United States

|{{sort|Fallen|The Fallen Sparrow}}

|

|Richard Wallace

|Film-Noir, Mystery. Spy thriller based on Dorothy B. Hughes novel

1943

|United States

|For Whom the Bell Tolls

|

|Sam Wood

|Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War. Drama based on Ernest Hemingway novel. American joins guerrillas in attack on bridge

1943

|Italy

|Special Correspondents

|Inviati speciali

|Romolo Marcellini

|Drama. An Italian journalist discovers an enemy female agent in the Spanish Civil War and then in Egypt during World War II

1945

|United Kingdom

|The Man from Morocco

|

|Mutz Greenbaum

|Action, Adventure.

1945

|United States

|Confidential Agent

|

|Herman Shumlin

|Drama, Thriller.

1949

|Spain

|The sanctuary does not give up

|El santuario no se rinde

|Arturo Ruiz Castillo

|Drama, War. Siege of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza

1949

|Spain

|Life in Shadows

|Vida en sombras

|Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia

|Drama.

1950s

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1951

|Spain

|Facing the Sea

|Rostro al mar

|Carlos Serrano de Osma

|Drama, War.

1951

|Spain

|Close to heaven

|Cerca del cielo

|Domingo Viladomat

|Biography, Drama, War.

1951

|Spain

|Reckless

|Balarrasa

|José Antonio Nieves Conde

|Crime, Drama.

1951

|Spain

|Service at Sea

|Servicio en la mar

|Luis Suárez de Lezo

|Drama, War.

1952

|United States

|The Snows of Kilimanjaro

|

|Henry King

|Adventure, Drama, Romance, War.

1954

|Spain

|Two Paths

|Dos caminos

|Arturo Ruiz Castillo

|Drama, War.

1954

|Spain

|The patrol

|La patrulla

|Pedro Lazaga

|Drama, War.

1955

|East Germany

|Ernst Thälmann - leader of his class

|Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse

|Kurt Maetzig

|Biography, Drama, History.

1955

|West German

|As Long as You Live

|Solange du lebst

|Harald Reinl

|Drama.

1956

|East Germany

|I am thirsty

|Mich dürstet

|Karl Paryla

|Drama, War. Based on short story Um Spaniens Freiheit.

1957

|East Germany

|Where you are going

|Wo Du hin gehst

|Martin Hellberg

|War.

1958

|Spain

|Heroes of the Air

|Héroes del aire

|Ramón Torrado

|Adventure, Drama, War.

1959

|Spain

|The infinite front

|El frente infinito

|Pedro Lazaga

|Drama, War.

1960s

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1960

|Spain
France

|The Crossroads

|La encrucijada

|Alfonso Balcázar

|Drama.

1960

|East Germany

|People with wings

|Leute mit Flügeln

|Konrad Wolf

|War, Drama.

1960

|Spain

|The faithful infantry

|La fiel infantería

|Pedro Lazaga

|Drama, War.

1960

|United States
Italy

|{{sort|Angel|The Angel Wore Red}}

|La sposa bella

|Nunnally Johnson

|Action, Drama, War, Romance. Romantic drama from Bruce Marshall novel

1960

|East Germany

|Five Cartridges

|Fünf Patronenhülsen

|Frank Beyer

|War.

1961

|France

|The Spanish Festival

|La Fête espagnole

|Jean-Jacques Vierne

|Drama, War.

1962

|Spain

|Clean wheat

|Trigo limpio

|Ignacio F. Iquino

|Drama, War. Red Terror

1962

|Mexico

|On the empty balcony

|En el balcón vacío

|Jomí García Ascot

|Drama.

1962

|Spain

|A Land for All

|Tierra de todos

|Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

|Drama, War.

1965

|East Germany
Soviet Union

|They Shall Not Pass

|Они не пройдут

|Siegfried Kühn

|Drama, War. Based on a novel Comrade Hans.

1966

|Spain

|Advanced position

|Posición avanzada

|Pedro Lazaga

|Drama, War.

1966

|Spain

|The lost eyes

|Los ojos perdidos

|Rafael García Serrano

|Drama, War.

1966

|Soviet Union
Latvia

|Nocturne

|Ноктюрн
Noktirne

|Rostislav Goryayev

|Drama, War.

1967

|France

|The Wall

|Le Mur

|Serge Roullet

|Drama. Based on short story The Wall.

1968

|Spain

|Crusade at sea

|Cruzada en la mar

|Isidoro Martínez-Vela

|Drama, War. Spanish cruiser Almirante Cervera

1968

|Soviet Union

|This moment

|Это мгновение
Šis mirklis

|Emil Loteanu

|Drama, War.

1969

|United Kingdom

|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

|

|Ronald Neame

|Comedy, Drama, Romance.

1969

|Spain

|The other tree of Guernica

|El otro árbol de Guernica

|Pedro Lazaga

|Biography, Drama. Based on a novel El otro árbol de Guernica.

1970s

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1970

|Soviet Union

|Hail, Mary!

|Салют, Мария!

|Iosif Kheifits

|Drama. Mariya Fortus

1970

|Spain
Italy

|Hand Strike (Explosion)

|Golpe de mano (Explosión)

|José Antonio de la Loma

|Action, Drama, War. Battle of the Ebro

1971

|Spain

|The rebel mountain

|La montaña rebelde

|Ramón Torrado

|War, Drama.

1971

|Spain

|The shore

|La orilla

|Luis Lucia

|Drama.

1971

|Soviet Union

|Officers

|Офицеры

|Vladimir Rogovoy

|Drama, Romance, War.

1972

|Spain

|The house of chivas

|La casa de las chivas

|León Klimovsky

|Drama. Based on the play La casa de las chivas.

1975

|Bulgaria

|Doomed Souls

|Osadeni Dushi
Осъдени Души

|Vulo Radev

|Drama, Romance, War. Romance drama based on Dimitar Dimov novel

1975

|Soviet Union

|Mirror

|Зеркало

|Andrei Tarkovsky

|Biography, Drama.

1975

|East Germany
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
France

|Between Day and Night

|Zwischen Nacht und Tag

|Horst E. Brandt

|Erich Weinert

1975

|France
Italy

|The Tree of Guernica

|L' Arbre de Guernica

|Fernando Arrabal

|Drama, War.

1976

|Spain

|The Legion Like Women

|A la Legión le gustan las mujeres

|Rafael Gil

|Comedy.

1976

|Spain

|Long Vacations of 36

|Las largas vacaciones del 36

|Jaime Camino

|Drama, History.

1976

|Spain

|Family Portrait

|Retrato de Familia

|Antonio Giménez-Rico

|Drama, War.

1976

|Italy

|A Sold Life

|Una vita venduta

|Aldo Florio

|War. Two Italian soldiers of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie. Based on Leonardo Sciascia short novel L'antimonio

1977

|Spain

|Let's have the war in peace

|Tengamos la guerra en paz

|Eugenio Martín

|Comedy.

1977

|Spain

|One of the million dead

|Uno del millón de muertos

|Andrés Velasco Rubio

|Drama.

1977

|Soviet Union
Hungary

|Code Name Lukács

|Псевдоним: Лукач
Fedőneve: Lukács

|Manos Zacharias

|Biography. Hungarian writer, political exile and XII International Brigade commander Máté Zalka's final months.

1978

|Spain

|Soldiers

|Soldados

|Alfonso Ungría

|Drama.

1978

|Soviet Union
Switzerland

|The Velvet season

|Бархатный сезон

|Vladimir Pavlovich

|Drama, War.

1979

|Spain

|Companys, procés a Catalunya

|Companys, proceso a Cataluña

|Josep Maria Forn

|Biography, Drama, History.

1980s

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1980

|Soviet Union

|Spanish version

|Испанский вариант
Spāņu variants

|Ēriks Lācis

|Thriller. Based on a novel Spanish version.

1980

|Italy

|Quiet country women

|Tranquille donne di campagna

|Claudio Giorgi

|Drama.

1980

|Spain

|Stubble land

|Tierra de rastrojos

|Antonio Gonzalo

|

1981

|France

|The Red Shadow

|L'Ombre rouge

|Jean-Louis Comolli

|Drama, Thriller.

1982

|Spain

|Diamond Square

|La plaça del Diamant

|Francesc Betriu

|Drama. Based on a novel The Time of the Doves.

1984

|Spain

|Memoirs of General Escobar

|Memorias del General Escobar

|José Luis Madrid

|Drama. Based on a memoir. Antonio Escobar Huertas

1984

|Spain

|Bicycles Are for the Summer

|Las bicicletas son para el verano

|Jaime Chávarri

|Drama.

1985

|Spain

|Requiem for a Spanish Peasant

|Réquiem por un campesino español

|Francesc Betriu

|Drama.

1985

|Spain

|The Heifer

|La vaquilla

|Luis García Berlanga

|Comedy, War.

1986

|Spain

|The War of the Madmen

|La guerra de los locos

|Manolo Matji

|Drama.

1986

|Spain

|The Bastard Brother of God

|El hermano bastardo de Dios

|Benito Rabal

|Drama, War. Based on a novel El hermano bastardo de Dios.

1986

|Spain

|Dragon Rapide

|

|Jaime Camino

|Drama, History. Gen. Franco prepares his uprising against the Republic from Spanish Morocco, 1936

1986

|Spain

|Voyage to Nowhere

|El viaje a ninguna parte

|Fernando Fernán Gómez

|Comedy, Drama. Comedy-drama based on director's novel. Travelling comedy troupe during war and post-war Francoist Spain

1987

|Spain

|To the four winds

|A los cuatro vientos

|José Antonio Zorrilla
Arantxa Urretabizkaia

|Drama. Lauaxeta, Bombing of Guernica

1987

|Spain

|Hooray for the band!

|¡Biba la banda!

|Ricardo Palacios

|Comedy, War.

1988

|Soviet Union
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
East Germany
Spain

|Faithfulness We Pledge

|Верными останемся
Верни ще останем
Wir bleiben treu
Věrni zůstaneme
Pozostaniemy wierni

|Andrei Malyukov

|Drama, War.

1990s

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1990

|Spain
Italy

|¡Ay Carmela!

|¡Ay Carmela!

|Carlos Saura

|Comedy, Drama, War.

1990

|Canada
France
China

|Bethune: The Making of a Hero

|{{efn|name=Eng|This film is an international co-production shot in English.}}

|Phillip Borsos

|Biography, Drama, Romance, War. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in Spain, then China for Sino-Japanese War

1991

|Spain

|Cows

|Vacas

|Julio Medem

|Drama, Mystery, Romance, War.

1992

|Spain
France

|The Long Winter

|El largo invierno

|Jaime Camino

|Drama, History, War.

1995

|France

|

|Fiesta

|Pierre Boutron

|Drama based on the novel by José Luis de Vilallonga

1995

|United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Italy
France
United States

|{{sort|Land and Freedom|Land and Freedom}}

|

|Ken Loach

|Drama, War. Historical drama with similarities to George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia.

1996

|Spain
Italy
Belgium

|Libertarians

|Libertarias

|Vicente Aranda

|Drama, History, War.

1997

|Spain

|In Praise of Older Women

|En brazos de la mujer madura

|Manuel Lombardero

|Drama, Romance, War.

1997

|Spain
France
United States
Puerto Rico

|{{sort|Disappear|The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca}}

|{{efn|name=Eng}}

|Marcos Zurinaga

|Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Based on a novel La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca. Poet Federico García Lorca, 1936

1998

|Spain

|The Pianist

|El Pianista

|Mario Gas

|Drama. Based on a novel El Pianista.

1998

|United States

|Talk of Angels

|

|Nick Hamm

|Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel Mary Lavelle.

1998

|Spain

|A Time for Defiance

|La hora de los valientes

|Antonio Mercero

|Drama, Romance, War.

1998

|Spain

|{{sort|Girl|The Girl of Your Dreams}}

|La niña de tus ojos

|Fernando Trueba

|Comedy, Drama. Actress Imperio Argentina and pro-Franco movie-makers travel to Nazi Germany

1999

|Spain

|Butterfly's Tongue

|La lengua de las mariposas

|José Luis Cuerda

|Drama, War. Based on a novels La lengua de las mariposas, Un saxo en la niebla, Carmiña.

2000s

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2000

|Spain

|The Sea

|El mar

|Agustí Villaronga

|Drama, War.

2002

|Spain
Portugal

|Carol's Journey

|El viaje de Carol

|Imanol Uribe

|Drama, History. A young girl moves from America to her mother's town in Spain in 1938.

2003

|Spain

|A singular passion

|Una pasión singular

|Antonio Gonzalo

|Biography, Drama. Blas Infante

2003

|Spain

|The End of a Mystery

|La luz prodigiosa

|Miguel Hermoso

|Drama. Based on a novel La luz prodigiosa. Federico García Lorca

2003

|Spain

|The Carpenter's Pencil

|El lápiz del carpintero

|Antón Reixa

|Drama. Based on a novel The Carpenter's Pencil.

2003

|Spain

|Soldiers of Salamina

|Soldados de Salamis

|David Trueba

|Drama. Based on a novel Soldiers of Salamis.

2004

|Spain

|Iris

|

|Rosa Vergés

|Drama.

2004

|Canada
United Kingdom

|Head in the Clouds

|

|John Duigan

|Drama, Romance, War.

2007

|Spain
Italy

|13 Roses

|Las 13 Rosas

|Emilio Martínez-Lázaro

|Drama, History. Las Trece Rosas

2008

|Spain

|The book of waters

|El libro de las aguas

|Antonio Giménez-Rico

|Drama. Based on a novel El libro de las aguas.

2008

|Spain

|The Good News

|La buena nueva

|Helena Taberna

|Drama. Marino Ayerra, White Terror

2008

|Germany
Spain
France

|The Anarchist's Wife

|La mujer del anarquista

|Peter Sehr
Marie Noëlle

|Drama, History.

2010s

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2010

|Spain

|Stars to reach

|Izarren argia

|Mikel Rueda

|Drama. Saturararan Women's Prison

2011

|Spain

|Spanish people!

|Ispansi!

|Carlos Iglesias

|Drama, History, Romance, War. Secret Falangist escorts orphans to USSR in time for Second World War

2011

|United States
Spain
Argentina

|There Be Dragons

|{{efn|name=Eng}}

|Roland Joffé

|Biography, Drama, War. Josemaría Escrivá

2013

|Spain

|Bernabé

|

|Pablo Casanueva

|Drama.

2013

|Spain
United Kingdom

|The Mule

|La mula

|Michael Radford
Sebastien Grousset

|Adventure, Comedy, Drama.

2013

|Spain

|{{sort|Forbidden|A Forbidden God}}

|Un Dios prohibido

|Pablo Moreno

|Drama, History. Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, Religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War

2014

|Spain

|The memory of the olive trees

|La memoria de los olivos

|Raúl Romera

|

2014

|Spain

|The pit

|La fossa

|Pere Vilà Barceló

|Drama.

2014

|Spain

|Under a Blanket of Stars

|Bajo un manto de estrellas

|Óscar Parra de Carrizosa

|Drama, History. Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, Religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War

2015

|Spain

|The banishment

|El destierro

|Arturo Ruiz Serrano

|Drama.

2016

|Spain

|Dance in the Union

|Baile en el Sindicato

|Fran Longoria

|War.

2016

|Spain
United States

|Guernica

|Gernika

|Koldo Serra

|Drama, History, Romance, War. Bombing of Guernica

2017

|Spain

|Elephants

|Elefantes

|Carlos Balbuena

|Drama.

2017

|Spain

|The Bastards' Fig Tree

|La higuera de los bastardos

|Ana Murugarren

|Comedy, Drama, Thriller.

2017

|Spain

|Uncertain Glory

|Incerta glòria

|Agustí Villaronga

|Drama based on the novel from Joan Sales.

2019

|Spain

|So a hundred years pass

|Así que pasen cien años

|Mau Cardoso

|

2019

|Spain
Argentina

|While at War

|Mientras Dure la Guerra

|Alejandro Amenábar

|Drama, History, War. Miguel de Unamuno

2019

|Spain
France
Canada

|The Endless Trench

|La Trinchera Infinita

|Jon Garaño
Aitor Arregi Galdos
Jose Maria Goenaga

|Drama, History, Thriller. 1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.

2020s

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2020

|Spain

|Land of looms

|Terra de telers

|Joan Frank Charansonnet

|Drama.

2021

|Spain

|The skin of the volcano

|La piel del volcán

|Armando Ravelo

|Drama.

2021

|Spain

|Parallel Mothers

| Madres Paralelas

|Pedro Almodovar

|Drama. War memories. Ancestors.

2022

|Spain

|Flocks

|Estols

|Xavier Moreno

|Drama.

2023

|Spain

|The Teacher Who Promised the Sea

|El maestro que prometió el mar

|Patricia Font

|Biography, Drama. Based on a novel El mestre que va prometre el mar. Antoni Benaiges

2024

|Spain
Portugal

|May I Speak with the Enemy?

|¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila

|Alexis Morante

|Comedy. Based on the book El libro de Gila. Antología cómica de obra y vida. Miguel Gila

Upcoming films

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Year

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2025

|Spain

|Dinner

|La cena

|Manuel Gómez Pereira

|Comedy, Drama, History.

2026

|Spain

|In blood and fire

|A sangre y fuego

|J. A. Bayona

|Drama. Based on the novel In blood and fire. Heroes, beasts and martyrs of Spain.

202X

|United States
Spain

|A Dry Run

|

|David Simon

|Drama, History, War. Lincoln Battalion

Science fiction, fantasy, and horror 

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! width=160|Main title
(Alternative titles)

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(Original script)

! width=100|Director

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2001

|Spain
Mexico

|The Devil's Backbone

|El Espinazo del Diablo

|Guillermo del Toro

|Drama, Horror, Thriller.

2010

|Spain
France

|{{sort|Last Circus|The Last Circus}}

|Balada triste de trompeta

|Álex de la Iglesia

|Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller. Son of Republican militiaman carries out his own war over a woman

2012

|Spain
France
Portugal

|Painless

|Insensibles

|Juan Carlos Medina

|Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller.

2012

|Spain

|The Forest

|El Bosc

|Óscar Aibar

|Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War. Story of a family torn apart during the Spanish Civil War in Lower Aragon. The husband takes refuge using a portal to another world. 1936

2020

|Spain

|Valley of the Dead

|Malnazidos

|Javier Ruiz Caldera
Alberto de Toro

|Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War. Months after bloody combats leave behind thousands of dead in the trenches. Jan Lozano, Captain of the Fifth Brigade has fallen prisoner by an opponent's platoon along with a young driver while carrying out a mission that has been entrusted to him. The possibility of dying executed will soon be overtaken when a new unknown enemy arises. Both rival sides must unite and set their mutual hate aside in order to survive.

Television films

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Year

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1960

|United States

|The Fifth Column

|

|John Frankenheimer

|Drama.

1965

|East Germany
United Kingdom

|Four Soldiers

|Ballade vom roten Mohn

|Kurt Jung-Alsen

|Drama, War. International Brigades

1967

|Finland

|The Death of Federico

|Federicon kuolema

|Tuija-Maija Niskanen

|Drama. Federico García Lorca

1967

|France

|The Spaniard

|L'Espagnol

|Jean Prat

|Drama. Based on a novel L'Espagnol.

1973

|Yugoslavia

|Fifth column

|Пета колона
Peta kolona

|Boro Drašković

|Drama.

1976

|Italy

|The assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca

|L'assassinio di Federico Garcia Lorca

|Alessandro Cane

|Drama. Federico García Lorca

1976

|United Kingdom

|The Madness

|

|James Cellan Jones

|{{efn|The cast of characters in The Madness, a BBC production, includes the following historical figures: Prieto, Largo Caballero, Dolores Ibárruri, Gen. Queipo de Llano, Andrés Nin, General Mola, Gen. Asensio Torrado, Vicente Uribe, Jesús Hernández Tomás (Education Minister), Garcia Oliver, Giral, Galarza (Interior Minister), Federica Montseny, Alvarez Del Vayo, Juan Negrín, General Miaja, and General Rojo. Generals Queipo de Llano and Mola are Nationalists; the other leaders are all Republicans. The role of Francisco Largo Caballero was played by Patrick Stewart.}}

1977

|Canada

|Bethune

|

|Eric Till

|Biography, Drama. Montreal doctor Norman Bethune in Spain, then China for Sino-Japanese War

1986

|Spain

|The king and the queen

|El rey y la reina

|José Antonio Páramo

|Drama.

2008

|Spain

|The sailor

|A mariñeira

|Antón Dobao

|Drama.

2012

|Spain

|The conspiracy

|La conspiración

|Pedro Olea

|Thriller. Spanish coup of July 1936

2012

|United States

|Hemingway & Gellhorn

|

|Philip Kaufman

|Biography, Drama, Romance. Story depicts the occasion that the two journalist met each other in Spain while they were both covering the Spanish Civil War.

2016

|Spain

|Ebro, from the cradle to the battle

|Ebro, de la cuna a la batalla

|Roman Parrado

|Drama, History. Leva del biberón, Battle of the Ebro

2019

|Spain

|Exodus, from the battle to the border

|Èxode, de la batalla a la frontera

|Roman Parrado Lloro

|Drama, War.

2021

|Spain

|The shrapnel

|El metralla

|Jordi Roigé i Solé

|

2021

|Spain

|Frederica Montseny, the woman who speaks

|Frederica Montseny, la dona que parla

|Laura Mañá

|Biography. Federica Montseny

TV Series

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Year

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1965

|United Kingdom

|For Whom the Bell Tolls

|

|Rex Tucker

|Drama. Based on a novel For Whom the Bell Tolls

1971

|East Germany

|Clear skies all over Spain

|Über ganz Spanien wolkenloser Himmel

|Hans Knötzsch

|

1984

|East Germany

|Front without mercy

|Front ohne Gnade

|Rudi Kurz

|War, Drama, Action, Adventure

1985

|Spain

|Vacationers

|Veraneantes

|Alberto González Vergel

|Drama

1987-8

|Spain

|Lorca, death of a poet

|Lorca, muerte de un poeta

|Juan Antonio Bardem

|Biography, Drama. Federico García Lorca

1990

|Spain

|Riders of the Dawn

|Los Jinetes del Alba

|Vicente Aranda

|Drama, War. Based on a novel Los Jinetes del Alba.

1990

|Spain

|The Forging of a Rebel

|La forja de un rebelde

|Mario Camus

|Biography, Drama, War. Based on the books The Forging of a Rebel. Arturo Barea

1997

|Spain

|Perez's gang

|La banda de Pérez

|Ricardo Palacios

|Comedy

2001-2

|Spain

|Time of Silence

|Temps de silenci

|

|Drama

2005-15

|Spain

|Love in troubled times

|Amar en tiempos revueltos

|

|Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War.

2006

|Canada

|Bethune

|

|Yang Yang

|Biography

2008

|France
Spain
Belgium

|Them and Me

|Elles et Moi

|Bernard Stora

|Drama.

2011

|Spain

|

|Tornarem

|Felip Solé

|Drama, War

2012

|Spain

|Gernika under the bombs

|Gernika bajo las bombas

|Luis Marías

|Drama. Bombing of Guernica

2013-4

|Spain

|The Time in Between

|El tiempo entre costuras

|Ignacio Mercero
Iñaki Peñafiel
Norberto López Amado

|Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance

2017

|Portugal
Spain

|Vidago Palace

|

|Henrique Oliveira

|Drama, History, Romance

2019

|Spain

|

|Parany

|Juan Luis Iborra

|Drama.

2021

|United Kingdom

|The Pursuit of Love

|

|Emily Mortimer

|Drama, Romance

2023

|Spain

|The Patients of Dr. García

|Los pacientes del doctor García

|Joan Noguera

|Drama.

See also

Notes

{{Notelist}}

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Spanish Civil War}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Spanish Civil War Films}}

Category:Lists of war films

Category:Lists of historical films

Films