The Best Spanish TV
Shows of 2026

1

8.0

2013

El Señor de los Cielos

Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.

2

8.5

2005

Los Reyes

Los Reyes is a telenovela filmed in Colombia and produced by the Colombian network, RCN. It debuted in 2005 and is available via RCN cable TV in the United States.

3

8.0

2018

Elite

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

4

7.8

2016

Rosario Tijeras (Mexico)

Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.

5

9.2

2020

Pa Quererte

6

8.0

2002

Rebelde Way

Four teenagers at an elite school in Buenos Aires are drawn together by their love of music, despite their differing social and economic backgrounds.

7

7.9

2010

El Clon

Lucas falls for a young Arab girl named Jade. She is caught between modern values and her Islamic upbringing. They separate and two decades pass. Then a strange turn of luck brings the pair together. Then Jade meets a clone, who is just like Lucas, but twenty years younger. She must choose between the man she loved and the memory she cherishes.

8

8.4

2004

Rebelde

A group of young adults will spend their adolescence at the Elite Way School, where they will learn about love, life and live their passion for music.

9

7.1

2008

La rosa de Guadalupe

Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.

10

8.2

2023

La promesa

In 1913 Spain, a woman gets a job at the palace of La Promesa as a reward for saving the marquesses' son - but nobody knows that she has her own plans, which involve avenging her mother's death and finding her missing brother.

11

8.1

1973

El Chavo del Ocho

The mishaps of Chavo, an 8-year-old Mestizo-Latino American orphan boy who lives in a village. Together with Quico, Chilindrina, Ñoño and La Popis, Chavo experiences a series of humorous entanglements.

12

8.2

2017

Money Heist

To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.