# The best films about the Spanish Civil War

The war and its aftermath told through drama, comedy and even fantasy. Picked from the lists of decine21, Academia Play and Cineando.

- 94 votes · 14 items
- Apr 12, 2024 · macarena fuentes
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## Top 10

1. **La vaquilla (1985)** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — Soldiers try to steal a heifer from the other side, by Berlanga.
2. **¡Ay, Carmela! (1990)** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Travelling performers stuck behind Nationalist lines, by Carlos Saura.
3. **Pan's Labyrinth (2006)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Ofelia and the faun in the post-war years, by Guillermo del Toro.
4. **Butterfly's Tongue (1999)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — A boy and his teacher in Galicia in 1936, by José Luis Cuerda.
5. **Belle Époque (1992)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — A deserter and four sisters before the war; foreign-language Oscar.
6. **The Endless Trench (2019)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — A man who hides in his own house for over 30 years.
7. **Land and Freedom (1995)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — A young English communist in the POUM militias, by Ken Loach.
8. **13 Roses (2007)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The thirteen young women executed in Madrid in 1939.
9. **The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A girl in a Castilian village in 1940, by Víctor Erice.
10. **Soldiers of Salamina (2003)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A writer on the trail of Sánchez Mazas, by David Trueba.
11. **While at War (2019)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Unamuno in Salamanca in 1936, by Alejandro Amenábar.
12. **Libertarias (1996)** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — A nun who joins an anarchist women's militia, by Vicente Aranda.
13. **Black Bread (2010)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Post-war rural Catalonia through a child's eyes.
14. **The Devil's Backbone (2001)** (-1 · ▲5 ▼6) — An orphanage and a ghost during the war, by Del Toro.

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