The clubs were filled with beautiful women who razzled and dazzled. We’ve all been there.

Charming almost to a fault, and perhaps all too eager to use his talents to woo Cuban women, Mateo is the type of guy documentaries were made to follow. Netflix has a ever-expanding amount of cartoons and movies with audio in Spanish, and here are my top picks.

The film won a Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexican-US border, is infamous for the drug violence that has made it one of the world’s most dangerous cities, with an annual murder rate in the thousands and where bloodshed and chaos are everyday realities for beleaguered inhabitants. If you are an intermediate or advanced learner, I recommend watching with Spanish subtitles as studies have shown it enhances language learning. Ingobernable. Yet the vast wealth and power of the traffickers has allowed them to build their own cult of personality as pop stars and film stars. Their parents, an unlikely pair, met when their American mother went on vacation to Peru and their father was her hiking guide. But that makes it easy to forget that there’s a dark side to even the healthier options. The title is the Kaqchikel word for "volcano. And the next thing you know, it’s been more than half an hour and you’ve already eaten all the popcorn you made.But worry not.

Gerald Erichsen is a Spanish language expert who has created Spanish lessons for ThoughtCo since 1998.Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna plays the title role in "Call Me Francis. They do pull and add shows, so this list may change. For more advanced learners, it’s better to watch Spanish movies with Spanish subtitles.

Having learnt Spanish while in jail where he fell in love with Cuban music, this LA-based musician is intent on making it big. Eventually, you’ll be able watch Spanish movies without any subtitles at all, which is even more effective! Problems ensue, of course, when he travels to Los Angeles to return the baby to her mother.This bilingual 2007 film that addresses the issue of illegal immigration co-stars Kate del Castillo as Mexican mother who works in Los Angeles to support her son, played by Adrián Alonso, who remains behind in Mexico and is living with his grandmother. He uses his savings from playing gigs to take trips to Havana where he records songs in those studios he’s grown to admire. He’s a cad and he’s a dreamer, and scored by his own music, Shot in the inhospitable Cerro Rico mining district in Potosi, Bolivia,  Last Update: 16/09/19 The trip isn't an easy one.Produced in 2007, making it one of the first Latin American films to tackle the issue of gender identity, This Italian-produced biopic of Pope Francis was shown in Latin America as a four-part TV miniseries, Pretty much what the title suggests, this 2001 film details the active sex life of a This film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu was a 2000 nominee for the Academy Awards' best foreign-language film. You read a bunch of descriptions of documentaries you don’t understand why anyone would watch. You sit down to catch a film on Netflix and you begin the dreaded routine. So you’ve binge watched Narcos for the umpteenth time and you’ve scoped out every other Netflix genre down to its B-movie badness.Except one: International Movies. When three Spanish students from a working class background are awarded scholarships to Spain’s most elite school, drama ensues. If you’re a nonfiction film fan, we got you covered. But when the grandmother dies, the boy must find a way to get into the United States so he can be with his mother. "Romance, bromance and post-apocalyptic sci-fi, this film makes no scientific sense (there's an epidemic that affects only people who go outside), but it is probably the now-available-for-streaming Spanish-language movie I've enjoyed the most. To keep themselves entertained, they also reenact some of their favorites. He’s much too pale—he’s a ginger!

You flick through the titles you apparently added to your list that don’t sound so appealing right now. In his documentary What exactly happened to the Armani suits, mink coats, and feathered hats of the Superfly era? Still from 'Fresh Dressed.' Courtesy of Sundance Institute The imaginative brood creates their own props and costumes from everyday household objects like cereal boxes and yoga mats. Mexican films are internationally celebrated and a great way to improve your listening comprehension.

Spanish-language movies are as close as your computer or Netflix device — and there may be no better way without international travel to experience Spanish as it's spoken in real life. If you are not at least a High Intermediate student, you might be watching CNN in Spanish with a blank stare on your face.

This unsettling and extremely graphic documentary follows Matthew “Mateo” Stoneman does not look like your regular Mariachi singer.

Looking for something like Fast food in America has come under attack, and rightly so.