Netflix Spain sets new projects by Oriol Paulo, Alberto Marini
Three of Spain’s leading creators, ‘The Invisible Guest’ director Oriol Paulo, ‘La Unidad’ co-creator Alberto Marini and documentary filmmaker Jon Sistiaga lead new projects from Netflix Spain.
Paulo, whose stunning 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 as it seems.”
The film, currently in production, is produced by Juanita Films, behind Paulo’s latest original for Netflix, the psychological thriller series ‘The Last Night at Tremore Beach’.
Co-creator of two Movistar Plus+ hits, the Spanish intelligence thriller ‘La Unidid’ and ‘Marbella’ – a fun drama thriller set in the sybaritic drug gang world of Marbella – screenwriter Marini is now set to make one of his first forays into directing, with ‘Lobo’ from ‘La unidad’ and ‘Gangs of Galicia’ producer Vaca Films.
“Lobo,” a miniseries now filming, 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 defense that he was a werewolf. Lobo stars Luis Tosar (Sky High) and Tristán Ulloa (Berlín). Marini co-writes with “La Unidad” editor Juan Galiñanes and co-directs with Javier Rodríguez Delgado, a coordinating director for “Gangs of Galicia.”
Netflix has released a first look image of both ‘Lobo’ and ‘En nombre de otro’.
‘Lobo’
Sistiaga directs “Miguel Ángel Blanco: las 48 horas que lo cambiaron todo”, a documentary film in collaboration with Juanjo López and produced by The Tintirin Team.
It explores the two days after Blanco’s kidnapping by the terrorist organization ETA in 1997, when millions of people mobilized in a desperate bid to prevent his impending assassination, “a painfully delayed death that left a lasting scar on Spanish society. The documentary returns to that crucial moment of solidarity and compassion, when Basque society lost its fear of ETA,” Netflix said in a statement on Monday.
During a showcase last Thursday in Madrid, Netflix provided an update on releases for 2026. According to a recent Netflix engagement report for the second half of 2025, Spain ranked in line with Japan in 2025, but far behind Korea, releasing three titles with more than 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 of 2026, on paper at least, is ‘Berlin and the Lady with an Hermine’, the second season of ‘Money Heist’ spin-off ‘Berlin’, which reached 51 million views in early 2024.
Bowing on May 15, it should support a 2026 Netflix appearance in Spain, whose releases and productions are loaded with major Spanish stars, feature new titles from some of Spain’s best directors and are strong on crime and true crime — both “Lobo” and “Miguel Angel Blanco” fit into that category in different ways.
With a second season of “Alpha Males” already released in Spain and sitting at No. 4 on Netflix’s global non-English TV series chart and “53 Sundays” (below) on the horizon, the comedy could well build on Netflix in Spain, perhaps a sign of the streaming service’s widening neo-broadcast network audience.
Some other potential Netflix Spain highlights for 2026:
*The Final Problem,” starring Jose Coronado, Maribel Verdú and Martiño Rivas, a 1950s 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 in which Tosar plays a father trying to get his daughter out of a neo-Nazi gang;
*”Murder in Galicia,” a three-part true crime series starring Tristán Ulloa and co-created by Ramón Campos at Bambu Producciones, behind the mega-hit “The Asunta Case”:
*The Child”, led by Belén Cuesta (“The Endless Trench”) and Karra Elejalde (“While at War”), an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Fernando Aramburu (“Patria”) and the latest version by 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 1960s Spanish crooner Raphael, who personally presented the title on Thursday during a Netflix showcase, produced by Spain’s DLO Producciones, part of Banijay Entertainment.
*”Rafa”, a documentary in which tennis great Rafael Nadal is charted as a professional player.
