# The best Spanish films of the 1980s

From The South and The Holy Innocents to Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, La vaquilla and Amanece, que no es poco: the ten essential Spanish films of the 1980s according to eCartelera.

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- Dec 3, 2024 · guitarrero_veracruz
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## Top 10

1. **The Nest (1980)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jaime de Armiñán. Héctor Alterio and a widower's strange friendship with a 13-year-old girl.
2. **The Crack (1981)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — José Luis Garci. Alfredo Landa as private eye Germán Areta.
3. **The South (1983)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Víctor Erice. A girl and her father's secrets in a house in the north.
4. **The Enchanted Forest (1987)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — José Luis Cuerda. Alfredo Landa and a Galician forest full of characters, from Wenceslao Fernández Flórez.
5. **Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Jaime Chávarri. A Madrid family during the Civil War, from Fernán Gómez's play.
6. **The Holy Innocents (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mario Camus. Paco Rabal and Alfredo Landa on an Extremadura estate, from Delibes's novel.
7. **La vaquilla (1985)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Luis García Berlanga. Republican soldiers try to steal a heifer from the Nationalist side.
8. **Voyage to Nowhere (1986)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fernando Fernán Gómez. A troupe of travelling players across postwar Spain.
9. **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pedro Almodóvar. Carmen Maura, a spiked gazpacho and a Madrid penthouse.
10. **Amanece, que no es poco (1989)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — José Luis Cuerda. A surreal village in the hills of Albacete.

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