Prime Video has announced its slate of upcoming Spanish titles, most of which will be available globally.
In response to the growing global demand for content from Spain, Prime Video has revealed the Spanish programming it will be bringing to subscribers in the coming months and next year. They include new titles under the Amazon Original banner, plus others being added to Prime Video’s licensed and exclusive catalogue.
(Note: English-language titles of the films and series below will be included in updates.)
LOCAL ORIGINAL FILMS
Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin
Based on the novel Apocalipsis Z. El principio del fin by Manel Loureiro, this highly-anticipated film sees a strange, rabies-like disease start to spread unchecked across the planet, turning people into extremely aggressive creatures. But Manel (Francisco Ortiz, El Cid, Garcia!) has been living his own personal apocalypse since his wife died in an accident, spending the past year depressed and isolated from his family, with only Luculo, his cat, for company.
When the disease becomes even stronger, Manel’s sister insists that he leave Vigo and join her in the Canary Islands, but the plan fails. Manel has to barricade himself in his house, resorting to his ingenuity and skills to survive. However, he and Luculo are soon forced to leave, and they will meet, by land and by sea, unlikely but essential travel companions.
Costars include Jose Maria Yazpik (Narcos), Berta Vazquez (Locked Up), Maria Salgueiro (Locked Up), Amalia Gomez (Hotel Almirante), Marta Poveda (The Replacement), Iria del Rio (Elite), Yuri Mikhaylychenko (La Unidad), and Oriol Ruiz (The Innocent), amongst others.
Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin premieres globally on Thursday, October 31, exclusively on Prime Video.
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Apocalipsis Z. El principio del fin by Manel Loureiro
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Enemigos
This drama centers on Chimo (Christian Checa, Drug Squad: Costa del Sol) and El Rubio (Hugo Welzel, The Invisible Girl), two teenagers from the same neighborhood — one a victim, the other the abuser; one bullied, the other the bully — who’ve grown up being enemies. One day, Chimo has the opportunity to get revenge and decides to carry out his plan… but he doesn’t imagine the consequences it will have on both of their lives.
Costars include Estefanía de los Santos (The Laws of the Border), Luna Pamiés (The Water), Sara Vidorreta (Queen of the South), José María Peinado (El hombre del saco), and José Manuel Poga (Money Heist).
Enemigos will premiere globally exclusively on Prime Video in 2025. Stay tuned for updates.
Sigue mi voz
Based on the best-selling novel Sigue mi voz by Ariana Godoy (author of Through My Window), this romance drama stars Berta Castañé (Welcome to Eden, The Barrier, Three Days of Christmas) as Klara, who does nothing but listen to her favorite radio show, Sigue mi voz, after a health crisis keeps her at home for 76 days straight. One day she wonders: Is it possible to fall in love with someone she’s only ever heard on the radio but never met? Can she really feel something for Kang (newcomer Jae Woo Yang), the radio show host? And will she overcome her fears and go out into the world again?
Costars include Claudia Traisac (Unauthorized Living), Nuno Gallego (Élite), Fernando Guallar (Love, Divided), Yasmina Drissi (The Hockey Girls), Sofía Iznájar, Adrià Salazar (The Innocent), Victoria Oliver (La ruta), Ethan Kim (Secret Society of Second Born Royals), Alberto Jo Lee (3 Caminos), and Iñaki Mur (Merlí). The film also features Itziar Ituño (Money Heist).
Sigue mi voz will be released in cinemas on February 14, 2025, with exclusive global streaming on Prime Video after its theatrical run. Stay tuned for updates.
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Viaje de fin de curso
Set in 2021, this teen comedy follows a group of high school students and teachers who, after spending a year in confinement thanks to Spain’s COVID-19 lockdown, head off on an end-of-the-year trip to Mallorca. It’s the last chance they have to be together, make up for lost time, have fun like never before, and say goodbye to this crazy stage of their lives. But their plans go sideways when a new outbreak of coronavirus forces them to stay locked in their hotel rooms. More than fifty students, two teachers, and many minibars cooped up in one hotel. What could go wrong?
The film stars Yolanda Ramos (Welcome to the Family), Berta Castañé (Welcome to Eden), Sara Vidorreta (Queen of the South), Claudia Roset (The Girl in the Mirror), Nadia Vilaplana (Un, dos, tres… responda otra vez), Diego Garisa (Welcome to Eden), Martí Cordero (4 estrellas), and Aiden Botía (I Don’t Like Driving), amongst others.
Viaje de fin de curso will premiere globally exclusively on Prime Video in 2025. Stay tuned for updates.
La virgen roja
This highly-anticipated biopic-historical drama thriller film, with a touch of true crime to boot, tells the fact-based story of the extraordinary and tragic life of Hildegart Rodríguez (Alba Planas, SKAM España), one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and a European reference on female sexuality at that time. She was raised and educated by her mother, Aurora (Najwa Nimri, Holy Family), to be the woman of the future.
However, when Hildegart is eighteen and beginning to experience a bit of freedom, she meets Abel Velilla (Patrick Criado, Mar de plástico), who helps her to explore a new emotional world and break away from Aurora’s ironclad control. For her part, Aurora fears losing control over her daughter and does everything she can to prevent Hildegart from moving away. The two women will confront each other during a summer night in 1933, effectively ending the “Hildegart Project.”
La virgen roja will be released in cinemas on September 27, with exclusive global streaming on Prime Video after its theatrical run. Stay tuned for updates.
Zeta
In this action-packed thriller, five former Spanish spies are murdered at the same time in different embassies around the world. Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) discovers that they had participated in the secret “Operation Ciénaga,” which took place 35 years ago in Colombia, where a sixth agent — the only one who escaped from the assassins — was involved. Finding him will be the first objective for the CNI, which puts its best agent in charge of the mission: Zeta.
But Zeta will not be alone in his mission. Colombia is also looking for the sixth agent through one of its best agents, Alfa, who seems to know more about “Ciénaga” than Spanish intelligence. As Zeta and Alfa advance in their investigation, they will avoid dangers and unearth secrets — sins of the State — that have been hidden for years. The most hidden and powerful secret of all is the participation of a seventh agent in the mission, a spy in the shadows of whom no one knew anything. The agent who seems to be the ultimate reason that would explain all of the murders. His code name: Cassiel.
Starring Mario Casas (The Innocent, Bird Box: Barcelona, The Invisible Guest), Zeta will premiere globally soon (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
LOCAL ORIGINAL SERIES
Cochinas
Set in 1998 Valladolid, this comedy series stars Elena Anaya (Past Lies, The Chalk Line) as Nines, a conservative housewife who is forced to confront everything she thought she knew about herself after her husband falls into a coma, leaving her to run the family video store. When she discovers that the business is bankrupt, Nines decides to specialize in the only genre that makes them money: porn. With the help of outspoken employee Chon and inveterate film buff Agu, she turns the store, named “Dorothy,” into the first porn video retailer in the city — a place that will become the epicenter of an earthquake amongst the neighbors. Sexual liberation is now unstoppable!
Cochinas will premiere globally soon (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
Dime tu nombre
Set in Spain in 1997, this horror thriller series finds the inhabitants of Río Blanco, a town that lives off strawberries, have accepted that the Moroccan seasonal workers have settled in the abandoned village of Fuensanta. But their coexistence causes tensions. Sonia (Michelle Jenner, The Cook of Castamar), the leader of an NGO that helps with integration, knows this. So does Father Ángel (Darío Grandinetti, Hierro), the local priest. And even Safir (Younes Bouab, The Spy), the imam, knows. However, what none of them imagine is that the foundations of Fuensanta hide something capable of unleashing their worst nightmares. The oldest pain. The most ancestral fear. No matter what your beliefs are… or who you pray to.
The six-episode series costars Raúl Arévalo (The Asunta Case), Elena Rivera (Alba), Carla Quilez (Motherhood), Ramón Barea (Everybody Knows), Ramón Langa (The Ministry of Time), Amin Hamada (See You in Another Life), Somaya Taoufiki (La Unidad), Nourdin Batan (30 Coins), Pepa Aniorte (Volver), Iyad Bennis, and Alae Gamra, amongst others.
Dime tu nombre will premiere globally soon (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
En fin
This post-apocalyptic action-comedy series sees Tomás (José Manuel Poga, Money Heist, Sky Rojo, Burning Body) wake up hungover in the middle of an orgy in a furniture store on the day the apocalypse was supposed to happen. Months ago, when he was faced with the news about the end of the world, Tomás abandoned his wife, Julia (Malena Alterio, Spanish Shame), and daughter, Noa (Irene Pérez, Buster), without looking back. But when the errant planet that was going to crash into Earth passes by and the world keeps turning, Tomás realizes the magnitude of his mistake.
Now, he will try to return to his past life and obtain his family’s forgiveness, while trying to rebuild a world that will never be the same again. Meanwhile, Julia, who has always lived with the handbrake on, sees the non-apocalypse as a second chance, throwing herself into doing all of the things she didn’t dare do before. Then there’s Noa, who wonders why adults have insisted on destroying the world on their own, without the need for any giant planet to crash into Earth.
The ensemble cast includes Raúl Cimas (The Ministry of Time), Luisa Gavasa (Intimacy), Dani Mantero (Elite), Cristian de la tierra, Pepa Rus (The Time in Between), Javier Botet (30 Coins), Adrián Pino (The Neighbor), Victor Rebull (Queen of the South), and Numa Paredes (The Invisible Girl), amongst others. Leonor Watling (I Don’t Like Driving, The Vineyard, Unauthorized Living) guest stars.
En fin premieres globally in September (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
Red Queen: Seasons 2 and 3 (Reina Roja)
Based on the “Antonia Scott” novels by by Juan Gómez-Jurado, the first season of this drama thriller, adapted from the first book in the series, Red Queen, was a hit with viewers, reaching Prime Video’s Top 10 most-watched titles internationally at launch in February 2024. It stars Vicky Luengo (Antidisturbios, The Occupant) as Antonia Scott, officially the smartest person on Earth with an IQ of 242. Her intelligence made her the “Red Queen” of a secret and experimental police project, but what seemed like a gift became a curse, and she ended up losing everything. (Trailer is from Season 1)
The second season of Reina Roja is based on Book 2 of the “Antonia Scott” series, Black Wolf, with the recently-commissioned third season being based on Book 3, White King.
Red Queen: Seasons 2 and 3 will premiere globally soon (dates tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
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“Antonia Scott” novels by Juan Gómez-Jurado
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Su Majestad
Anna Castillo (Nowhere, La Línea Invisible, Arde Madrid) stars in this comedy series as Pilar, a young Princess and future Queen of Spain. When her father, King Alfonso XIV (Pablo Derqui, If I Hadn’t Met You), takes cover from a scandal and steps away from public-facing duties for a few months, Pilar is hastily put in his place as the head of the royal institution. She must show the country that she is not the irresponsible, insolent, lazy, and useless person that everyone thinks she is… except they may be right.
The cast includes Ernesto Alterio (Someone Has to Die), Ramón Barea (La Línea Invisible), Ana María Vidal (Los misterios de Laura), Lucía Díez (El Cid), Pablo Vázquez (Iron Reign), and Freddie Dennis (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story).
Su Majestad will premiere globally exclusively on Prime Video in 2025. Stay tuned for updates.
LOCAL ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES, DOCUMENTARIES & ENTERTAINMENT
El Circo de los Muchachos
This five-episode docuseries tells the incredible story of Father Jesús Silva, who created from nothing the City of Benposta in the outskirts of Ourense, Galicia, in 1956 in Francoist Spain. An educational project for underprivileged children, Benposta was like a nation within a nation, governed by the children, with its own currency, passports, and customs. It had the approval of both the Franco dictatorship and the Church, and, interestingly, had democratic processes to elect Benposta’s mayors.
Over time, Benposta became a city steeped in art, education, and excitement, and Silva founded “El Circo de los Muchachos,” a fascinating show that took these underprivileged children around the world, impressing audiences with their circus skills, even filling New York’s Madison Square Garden.
El Circo de los Muchachos premieres globally in November (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
Cómo cazar a un monstruo
This true-crime docuseries is the story of how a filmmaker fought for justice and how a criminal’s ego ended up being his downfall. It follows YouTuber and filmmaker Carles Tamayo, who was asked by Lluís Gros to make a documentary of his life to clean up his image after his conviction and 23-year prison sentence for sexual abuse. Thinking Gros would be repentant and ask for forgiveness, Tamayo agreed; however, this wasn’t the case, so the filmmaker set out to find out why the criminal was still free and unpunished. After months of tracking and exhaustive research, Tamayo discovered many other crimes committed by Gros that motivated him to fight for justice.
Cómo cazar a un monstruo premieres globally on Friday, September 6, exclusively on Prime Video.
Infiltrada en el búnker
This thrilling feature-length documentary exposes the longest infiltration of a European pharmaceutical laboratory ever, putting into perspective and shedding light on the use of animals in scientific experimentation. It is the story of an undercover agent who sacrificed everything and put her life at risk to show the world the harsh reality, which she experienced for two years inside an animal testing laboratory. Her investigation, inside what she ended up calling “the bunker,” is captured in hundreds of hours of footage recorded with a hidden camera that shows serious violations of animal abuse.
Infiltrada en el búnker will premiere globally exclusively on Prime Video in 2025. Stay tuned for updates.
Medina: El estafador de famosos
This five-episode docuseries is about alleged celebrity scammer Antonio Medina, who has spent the last twenty years swindling small amounts of money from many television personalities by posing as someone who had worked with them and is in the midst of a personal drama. One victim is comedian Jorge Ponce, who sets out to find the swindler using all of the resources at his disposal, from private detectives to the long list of comedians who were also victims of Medina’s deception. The series follows the investigation and features personal accounts from the victims and dramatic recreations of the scams.
Medina: El estafador de famosos premieres globally this October (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
Operación Triunfo 2025
This musical talent show, Prime Video’s first-ever live entertainment show and its most acquired Spanish Original, follows a group of contestants who enter an Academy to train and demonstrate their talent as singers and artists. Each week, in a gala with a live audience, the contestants must compete and show their skills on stage.
The new season of Operación Triunfo will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in September 2025 in Spain, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Commonwealth of Dominica, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Stay tuned for updates.
OT23: La gira
The first part of this two-part documentary explores the changes in the contestants’ lives after their time at the Operación Triunfo Academy, and offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at this summer’s musical tour, which has already sold more than 150,000 tickets. The second part is a film of the concert recorded at the WiZink Center in Madrid.
OT23: La gira premieres globally this September (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
LICENSED AND EXCLUSIVE SERIES AND DOCUMENTARIES
Calleja en el espacio
This docuseries follows adventurer Jesús Calleja as he becomes the first Spanish non-astronaut to go into space. After his renowned trips around the world, Calleja will face the most important adventure of his life: becoming the third Spaniard in history to travel to space, preceded by NASA astronauts Pedro Duque and Miguel López-Alegría. Viewers will be able to witness first-hand Calleja’s preparation, as well as learn about his childhood passion for science, the environment, and space.
Calleja en el espacio will premiere soon (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
Citas Barcelona: Season 2
The romantic comedy-drama series centers on encounters between strangers in Barcelona in stories about what happens on a first date when technology disappears and what’s left are two people with their own needs and contradictions. Each episode features the story of two dates. Throughout the season, characters mix and intertwine, offering a look at modern-day relationships and their diversity and complexity.
The second season cast includes Natalia Tena (John Wick: Chapter 4), Ricardo Gómez (La Ruta), Leonor Watling (The Vineyard), Adrián Lastra (Velvet), Verónica Echegui (Intimacy), Asier Etxeandia (Sky Rojo), Anna Castillo (Nowhere), Óscar Casas (Jaguar), Margarida Corceiro (Quero é Viver), Fran Perea (The Paradise), Bruna Cusí (Heirs to the Land), Yolanda Ramos (Welcome to the Family), Aina Clotet (Burning Body), Asia Ortega (The Boarding School: Las Cumbres), Aitor Luna (Cathedral of the Sea), Elisabet Casanovas (Sounds Like Love), Tomy Aguilera (Welcome to Eden), Lola Rodríguez (Veneno), Jorge Suquet (Elite), Mara Jiménez (CCCC Stories), Alfons Nieto (El Cid), Betsy Túrnez (Iron Reign), Joan Solé (See You in Another Life), Emma Arquillué (Heirs to the Land), and Arnau Puig (Bosé).
Citas Barcelona: Season 2 premieres this fall (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
Courtois: La vuelta del número 1
With unprecedented access, this four-episode docuseries provides insight into the most complicated year in the career of Thibaut Courtois, one of the best goalkeepers in football (soccer) history, as he works to reach the final stretch of the 2023/2024 season. From the uncertainties of surgery and recovery, to his day-to-day life with wife Mishel, their children, his family and friends, it’s a season full of vicissitudes, unexpected twists, and emotional moments. The program also looks at the key moments of Courtois’s career, with some of the biggest stars in the world of football of the last fifteen years taking part. The season culminates with Thibaut lifting the Champions League at Wembley Stadium, where his team, Real Madrid, won their fifteenth European crown.
Courtois: La vuelta del número 1 premieres globally on September 20, exclusively on Prime Video.
Dulceida al desnudo: Season 2
This docuseries about social media influencer Dulceida (given name Aída Domenech) returns with a new season, in which viewers follow both Aída and her ex-wife, Alba, now reconciled, planning to do the ROPA method (IVF for female partners) in order to become mothers. The couple also plan to buy a home together, while Aída tries to balance her professional life with her with her desire to be a mother.
Dulceida al desnudo: Season 2 will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 2025. Stay tuned for updates.
La Joia: Bad Gyal
This documentary follows Bad Gyal on her latest tour, tracking the hit singer’s dizzying rise in popularity and up the charts after the release of her debut album, La Joia. Her journey from Vilassar de Mar, where she was born Alba Farelo Solé, to conquering the mainstream as Bad Gyal, is one of highs and lows, light and darkness, transforming her from a diamond in the rough into an international pop icon.
La Joia: Bad Gyal premieres at the end of 2024 (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
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La que se avecina: Season 15
The new eight-episode season of this popular, long-running comedy series will see separations, deaths, reunions, revealed secrets, and dramatic turns of events in the lives of the neighbors of Contubernio 49, each of whom will face challenges: Amador (Pablo Chiapella, The Champion) will fight to grow as a person and overcome his disability; Antonio (Jordi Sánchez, Alpha Males) will compete with an empowered wife; Bruno (Luis Merlo, The Boarding School) will be forced to deal with his loneliness as Maite (Eva Isanta, Alpha Males) will have to contend with personal ruin; Menchu (Loles León, Little Coincidences) wants grandchildren and a great love; Fina (Petra Martínez, I Know Who You Are) will evade justice as Greta (Rocío Marín, Love, Divided) will take steps to spice up her marriage; and Victoria Rafaela (Mamen García, García y García) will fight for her life.
The ensemble cast also features Nathalie Seseña (Alpha Males), Félix Gómez (High Seas), Carlos Areces (30 Coins), Fernando Tejero (Los Farad), Miren Ibarguren (Arde Madrid), and Macarena Gómez (30 Coins), amongst others.
La que se avecina: Season 15 premieres later this year (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
Pombo: Season 3
Following on from the events in Season 2 of this reality series, the Pombo family embarks on new changes, both individually and collectively, in the upcoming new season. They will face unexpected challenges and often difficult situations that will allow them to get to know each other better, even if this could destabilize the family’s harmony. Each of them will live their own rite of initiation, as it were, culminating with Sito’s 60th birthday on board a cruise through the Caribbean. How will they fare together for a week on the high seas?
With a fourth season already commissioned, Pombo: Season 3 premieres globally this October (date tba) exclusively on Prime Video. Stay tuned for updates.
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Punto Nemo
This new action drama features a top-notch cast that includes Óscar Jaenada (Luis Miguel: The Series), Alba Flores (Locked Up), Maxi Iglesias (Valeria), Margarida Corceiro (Citas Barcelona), Eric Masip (“Through My Window” films), and Najwa Nimri (Money Heist).
The members of an oceanographic expedition, made up of scientists and the Spanish Navy, embark on the Pentonkontors ship to investigate and raise global awareness about the problems of the plastic island located in the South Pacific. But a strong storm propels them to a remote island formerly inhabited by Russian soldiers. This unforeseen event will test all of their survival skills and knowledge as they try to escape from this dangerous and mysterious place: Punto Nemo, the furthest point of any inhabited place on Earth.
The cast also includes Sara Matos (Sangue Oculto), Michelle Calvó (Wrong Side of the Tracks), María Isabel Díaz (Locked Up), Nüll García (Acacias 38), Felipe Pirazán (Operación Marea Negra), and Leander Vyvey (Vikings: Valhalla).
Punto Nemo will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 2025. Stay tuned for updates.
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