List of highest-grossing films in Spain

This list charts the most successful films at cinemas in Spain by box office sales, in euros and admissions. It also lists the most popular Spanish productions.

Highest-grossing films

The following are the highest-grossing films in Spain.

Rank	Title	Year	Gross
1	Avatar	2009	79.4
2	Spanish Affair	2014	56.2
3	Avatar: The Way of Water	2022	51.0
4	Inside Out 2	2024	45.5
5	Titanic	1998	42.7
6	The Impossible	2012	42.4
7	The Lion King	2019	37.2
8	Spanish Affair 2	2015	36.1
9	Barbie	2023	33.7
10	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	33.6

Highest-grossing Spanish films

The ten highest-grossing Spanish films of all time by domestic box office gross revenue are listed as follows:

Rank	Title	Year	Domestic gross
1	Spanish Affair	2014	56.2
2	The Impossible	2012	42.4
3	Spanish Affair 2	2015	36.1
4	The Others	2001	27.3
5	A Monster Calls	2016	26.5
6	The Orphanage	2007	25.1
7	Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure	2003	22.8
8	Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella	2001	22.1
9	Agora	2009	21.4
10	Perfect Strangers	2017	21.3

Highest-grossing Spanish films worldwide

The highest-grossing Spanish films of all time by worldwide box office gross revenue are listed as follows:

Rank	Title	Year	Language	Director	Gross	Ref
1	Fast & Furious 6	2013	English	Justin Lin	788.7
2	The Others	2001	English	Alejandro Amenábar	209.9
3	The Impossible	2012	English/Spanish	J. A. Bayona	198.1
4	Midnight in Paris	2006	English	Woody Allen	151.7
5	Mama	2013	English	Andy Muschietti	146.4
6	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	2006	English	Tom Tykwer	135.0
7	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	2008	English/Spanish	Woody Allen	96.4
8	Volver	2006	Spanish	Pedro Almodóvar	85.6
9	Spanish Affair	2014	Spanish	Emilio Martínez-Lázaro	78.7
10	The Orphanage	2007	Spanish	J. A. Bayona	78.6

Progression of highest-grossing film

Below is the list of films that were listed in the annual yearbooks as having the highest gross since 1965. The gross reported is that by the end of the year the record was subsequently broken. The film may have continued to gross more in later years. Variety reported a gross of 577.6 million Pesetas for Gone With the Wind in 1986. The official gross since 1965 at that date was 455.9 million Pesetas, which suggests a gross of 121.7 million Pesetas prior to 1965.

Title	Year of record	Gross	Ref
Doctor Zhivago	1966	203,645,611
The Godfather	1974	223,416,080
The Towering Inferno	1975	280,996,150
Jaws	1976	436,893,775
Star Wars	1978	542,047,776
Superman	1979	696,935,714
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1983	1,810,278,534
Basic Instinct	1992	2,203,132,927
Jurassic Park	1993	2,922,217,164
The Lion King	1995	3,087,503,868
Titanic	1998	6,332,537,226

Progression of highest-grossing Spanish film

Title	Year of record	Gross	Ref
Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella	2001	22,050,842
The Others	2001	27,254,163
The Impossible	2012	42,408,164
Spanish Affair	2014	55,379,948

Most admissions

The following are the films with the most cinema admissions in Spain since 1965 as at the end of 2023.

Rank	Title	Year	Admissions
1	Titanic	1998	11,417,167
2	Avatar	2009	9,489,978
3	Spanish Affair	2014	9,397,647
4	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	7,728,164
5	Doctor Zhivago	1966	7,258,351
6	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	7,153,941
7	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003	6,929,263
8	Star Wars	1977/1997	6,901,869
9	The Sixth Sense	1999	6,762,590
10	Avatar: The Way of the Water	2022	6,737,482

Most admissions for Spanish productions

The following are the Spanish films with the most cinema admissions in Spain since 1965 as at the end of 2023.

Rank	Title	Year	Admissions
1	Spanish Affair	2014	9,397,647
2	The Others	2001	6,410,785
3	The Impossible	2012	6,129,976
4	Spanish Affair 2	2015	5,693,198
5	For A Few Dollars More	1966	5,521,025
6	Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella	2001	5,321,969
7	Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure	2003	4,985,983
8	A Monster Calls	2016	4,613,696
9	The Orphanage	2007	4,420,987
10	No desearás al vecino del quinto	1970	4,371,624

Progression of most admissions

Below is the list of films that were listed in the annual yearbooks as having the most admissions since 1965. The admissions reported below are those by the end of the year the record was set. The film may have had further admissions in future years. Until 1981, Peliculas varias was listed as the film with the most admissions with over 7 million. It was again listed at the top in 1990. The first yearbook with this data was 1975 which listed El Padrecito as second after Peliculas varias however, in the 1976 yearbook, Doctor Zhivago, which was missing from the 1975 list, was listed above El Padrecito and its admissions for 1976 suggest that it had more admissions as at the end of 1975.

Most popular film by year

This lists the highest-grossing films in Spain per year based on their gross for the calendar year as per the data published annually by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The highest-grossing Spanish productions are listed separately.

Year	Title	Gross	Title	Gross	Ref
1968	The Professionals	42.5	No somos de piedra	35.7
1969	Helga	83.5	They Came to Rob Las Vegas	36.7
1970	La Residencia	65.9	La Residencia	65.9
1971	Airport	84.4	No desearás al vecino del quinto	80.9
1972	Fiddler on the Roof	105.1	Adiós, cigüeña, adiós	52.0
1973	Cabaret	125.8	Experiencia prematrimonial	66.3
1974	The Sting	148.5	Tormento	75.0
1975	The Towering Inferno	248.9	Furtivos	130.0
1976	A Clockwork Orange	288.1	La trastienda	156.6
1977	Rocky	252.5	Asignatura pendiente	193.0
1978	Emmanuelle	361.8	La guerra de papá	151.1
1979	Superman	655.3	Los bingueros	105.0
1980	Kramer vs. Kramer	410.6	...y al tercer año, resucitó	174.1
1981	El crimen de Cuenca	367.7	El crimen de Cuenca	367.7
1982	On Golden Pond	332.6	La colmena	236.4
1983	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1,388.6	El pico	156.2
1984	Gremlins	705.3	Los santos inocentes	466.6
1985	Rambo: First Blood Part II	820.6	La vaquilla	505.1
1986	Out of Africa	872.1	Sé infiel y no mires con quién	221.1
1987	Platoon	678.2	El Lute: camina o revienta	354.7
1988	The Last Emperor	885.1	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	644.7
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1,458.8	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	330.1
1990	Pretty Woman	1,209.7	Aquí huele a muerto	482.7
1991	Dances with Wolves	1,324.1	High Heels	729.9
1992	Basic Instinct	2,161.5	1492: Conquest of Paradise	429.4
1993	Jurassic Park	2,578.5	Belle Époque	626.0
1994	The Lion King	1,970.2	Todos los hombres sois iguales	410.8
1995	Pocahontas	1,298.6	Two Much	764.1
1996	Independence Day	1,816.3	Two Much	369.0
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	1,860.3	Airbag	1,152.3
1998	Titanic	6,215.3	Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law	1,706.2
1999	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	3,796.4	All About My Mother	1,220.7
2000	The Sixth Sense	4,406.0	La comunidad	969.4