# The best Spanish comedies

The top ten of Academia magazine's poll (headed by The Executioner), the favourites of Fotogramas' staff and the comedies audiences love most on FilmAffinity and at the box office.

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## Top 20

1. **The Executioner** (16 · ▲16 ▼0) — Luis García Berlanga, 1963. Number one in Academia's poll: a man agrees to become an executioner to get a flat.
2. **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — Pedro Almodóvar, 1988. Carmen Maura, an answering machine and a spiked gazpacho.
3. **Plácido** (11 · ▲13 ▼2) — Luis García Berlanga, 1961. Christmas chaos in a provincial town with an unpaid motor-tricycle.
4. **Amanece, que no es poco** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — José Luis Cuerda, 1989. A village where students elect God in an assembly; cult absurdist humour.
5. **The National Shotgun** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Luis García Berlanga, 1978. A hunt among Francoist bigwigs; number one for Fotogramas.
6. **Common Wealth** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Álex de la Iglesia, 2000. Carmen Maura finds 300 million pesetas and neighbours willing to do anything.
7. **Belle Époque** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Fernando Trueba, 1992. A deserter and four sisters in 1931 Spain; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
8. **Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Santiago Segura, 1998. Spain's sleaziest policeman; Goya for Best New Director.
9. **Airbag** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1997. Karra Elejalde, Fernando Guillén Cuervo and Alberto San Juan in search of a lost ring.
10. **Spanish Affair** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2014. A Sevillian poses as a Basque; the highest-grossing Spanish film ever.
11. **Welcome Mr. Marshall!** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Luis García Berlanga, 1953. The village that dressed up as Andalusian for the Americans.
12. **Atraco a las 3** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — José María Forqué, 1962. Bank employees decide to rob their own bank; with José Luis López Vázquez and Gracita Morales.
13. **The Little Coach** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Marco Ferreri, 1960. José Isbert and his obsession with a motorised wheelchair.
14. **Dying of Laughter** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Álex de la Iglesia, 1999. Santiago Segura and El Gran Wyoming as a comedy duo who hate each other.
15. **The Big Family** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Fernando Palacios, 1962. Alberto Closas, Amparo Soler Leal, fifteen children and grandpa Isbert shouting 'Chencho!'.
16. **Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Javier Fesser, 2003. Ibáñez's agents in live action; five Goyas.
17. **The Miracle of P. Tinto** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Javier Fesser, 1998. A couple who have spent their whole lives trying to have a child.
18. **The Other Side of the Bed** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2002. A musical comedy of errors with Spanish pop songs.
19. **The Day of the Beast** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Álex de la Iglesia, 1995. A satanic black comedy in Christmas-time Madrid.
20. **Champions** (-2 · ▲1 ▼3) — Javier Fesser, 2018. A coach sentenced to train a basketball team of players with intellectual disabilities; Goya for Best Film.

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