Three of Spain’s most distinguished creators, “The Invisible Guest” director Oriol Paulo, “La Unidad” co-creator Alberto Marini and documentary maker Jon Sistiaga are spearheading new projects from Netflix Spain.
Paulo, whose mind-bending murder mystery “The Invisible Guest” grossed $25 million in China, has assembled a top-notch Spanish cast – Eduard Fernández (“The 47”), Mario Casas (“The Innocent”), Blanca Suárez (“Cable Girls”), Alexandra Jiménez (“The Innocent) – for “En nombre de otro,” which Netflix describes as “a fast-paced thriller where nothing is what it seems.”
The movie, currently in production, is produced by Juanita Films, behind Paulo’s latest original for Netflix, psychological thriller series “The Last Night at Tremore Beach.”
Co-creator of two Movistar Plus+ hits, Spanish intelligence services thriller “La Unidid” and “Marbella” – a fun dramedy-thriller set in the sybaritic drug gang world of Marbella – screenwriter Marini is now set to make one of his earliest incursions into direction, with “Lobo,” from “La unidad” and “Gangs of Galicia” producer Vaca Films.
A miniseries now shooting, “Lobo” is inspired by Spain’s first recorded case of a serial killer, Manuel Blanco Romasanta, a traveling tailor in rural Galicia who when arrested in 1852 claimed in his defence that he was a werewolf. “Lobo” stars Luis Tosar (“Sky High”) and features Tristán Ulloa (“Berlín”). Marini co-writes with “La Unidad” editor Juan Galiñanes and co-directs with Javier Rodríguez Delgado, a co-ordinatng director on “Gangs of Galicia.”
Netflix released a first look image of both “Lobo,” and “En nombre de otro.”
‘Lobo’
Sistiaga is directing “Miguel Ángel Blanco: las 48 horas que lo cambiaron todo,” a doc-feature co-directed with Juanjo López and produced by The Tintirin Team.
It explores the two days after Blanco’s abduction by terrorist org ETA in 1997 during when millions of people mobilized in a desperate attempt to prevent his threatened murder, “an agonizingly delayed death that left a lasting scar on Spanish society. The documentary revisits that crucial moment of solidarity and compassion, when Basque society lost its fear to ETA,” Netflix said in a statement Monday.
At a showcase last Thursday in Madrid, Netflix delivered an update on 2026 releases. In 2025, according to a recent Netflix engagement report for the second half of 2025, Spain rated alongside Japan, though way behind Korea, releasing three titles which hit over 20 million views: “Angela” from Atresmedia (36 million views), “Billionaire’s Bunker” (28 million) from “Money Heist” creators Alex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, and “Two Graves” (26 million).
Netflix Spain’s big release in 2026, on paper at least, is “Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine,” the second season of “Money Heist” spin-off “Berlin” which hit 51 million views in early 2024.
Bowing May 15, it should help a 2026 Netflix performance in Spain whose releases and productions are laden with big Spanish stars, pack new titles from some of Spain’s best directors and are strong on crime and true crime – both “Lobo” and “Miguel Angel Blanco” slot in different ways into that category.
With a second season of “Alpha Males” already released in Spain and hitting No. 4 on Netflix global non-English TV series chart and “53 Sundays” (see below) in the offing, comedy may well be building on Netflix in Spain, a sign perhaps of the streaming service’s ever broader neo-broadcast network audiences.
Some other potential Netflix Spain highlights for 2026:
*The Final Problem,” with Jose Coronado, Maribel Verdú, and Martiño Rivas, a ‘50s-set murder mystery miniseries, based on the novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and directed by Félix Viscarret (“Patria”)
*Salvador,” starring Luis Tosar and Claudia Salas in an eight-part drama-thriller with Tosar playing a father trying to extract his daughter from a neo-Nazi gang;
*”Murder in Galicia,” a true crime three-part series starring Tristán Ulloa and co-created by Ramón Campos at Bambu Producciones, behind mega-hit “The Asunta Case”:
*The Child,” led by Belén Cuesta (“The Endless Trench”) and Karra Elejalde (“While at War”), adapting the novel of the same title by Fernando Aramburu (“Patria”) and marking the latest from Mariano Barroso, behind “What the Future Holds” and “The Invisible Line”;
*53 Sundays,” starring two of Spain’s greatest comedy talents, Carmen Machi and Javier Cámara, plus Javier Gutiérrez, directed by Cesc Gay (“Truman”)
*A Day Like No Other” A biopic of legendary ‘60s Spanish crooner Raphael, who presented the title in person at a Netflix showcase on Thursday. Spain’s DLO Producciones, part of Banijay Entertainment, produces.
*”Rafa,” a documentary charting tennis great Rafael Nadal as a professional player.
