Filmin is not only for the most moviegoers: 8 great series on the Spanish platform

Few countries can be proud of having their own streaming service for movies and series. Ignoring the United States, of course, where the four largest services in the world are concentrated: HBO Max, Netflix, Disney + and Prime Video, here ordered by price.

But those don’t count. They are giants belonging to mastodons of entertainment. One is from Warner itself, the other is the largest company in the world of streaming, the third is the app of the largest audiovisual production company on Earth and the fourth belongs to Jeff Bezos.

With this scenario, competing seems impossible. And we would agree with you if it weren’t for the fact that in 2007 a small group of entrepreneurs in Spain dared with an idea that, at the time, was quite a revolution.

The years passed and time proved them right, while also giving them rivals. But they managed to carve out a niche. Wow, they did.

Right now Filmin is the most interesting platform for moviegoers with a pedigree, since it is the one that brings auteur films, documentaries that have won awards at Sitges, and series that win critical acclaim at all festivals. In exchange, he has neither Captain America nor Game of Thrones.

8 great series of the Spanish platform

Operation Buffalo

The British atomic tests in Australia in the 1950s are the backdrop of this mixture of thriller and political satire that reminds us that the territories in which nuclear experiments were carried out were not as uninhabited as the Australian government believed.

It premiered in the fateful year of the pandemic (2020), but it did not go unnoticed. It is one of the best rated series in Filmin with an 8.2 by users and has Ewen Leslie and Jessica De Gouw as the undisputed protagonists.

There are six episodes of almost an hour each, so it is ideal to watch for a week after dinner. This series is one of Filmin’s ambassadors, one of those that bears its most unmistakable stamp.

• Qualification: Operation Buffalo
• Release date: 2020
• Duration: 50 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

The Virtues

With no close family to turn to, Joseph is obsessed with a past that for decades he has tried to forget, immersing himself in alcohol and drugs.. Fed up with an aimless life, he decides to return to Ireland to confront his childhood memories.

Critics claim that in The Virtues (2019) are the best 20 minutes in the history of television, which although it seems somewhat exaggerated, it is worth checking it out with our own eyes.

The multifaceted Stephen Graham is the protagonist of this story that is divided into four 45-minute episodes with a final chapter of deleted scenes. It’s different, it’s hard, but it’s worth enjoying this drama.

• Qualification: The Virtues
• Release date: 2019
• Duration: 45 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

Hotel Fawlty

Basil Fawlty is the temperamental and foul-mouthed owner of Fawlty Towers, a hotel plagued by crisis, chaos and strange characters. If you are young you will not remember, but the protagonist of this hilarious comedy is John Cleese, one of the most charismatic members of Monty Python.

This cult comedy marked an era in its premiere (1975) and school despite only having 12 episodes spread over 2 seasons. It won 2 BAFTA awards and is considered one of the BBC’s greatest hits of the 1970s.

Although it surprises you that there is a classic series on this list instead of a last minute premiere, this is precisely the magic of Filmin, a very well varied assortment of new releases with pills of great classics. This series came out before I was born, and will be seen long after I’m gone.

• Qualification: Hotel Fawlty
• Release date: 1975
• Duration: 35 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

Halt and Catch Fire

Set in the early 1980s, the series dramatizes the rise of computers through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer, and a prodigy whose innovations go head-to-head with the corporate giants of the day.

For many, this series reflects better than any other a time when it was already beginning to be seen what power technology would have in the future and how entrepreneurs had to stick with the dawn of Silicon Valley, where all the business was already moving.

Belonging to AMC Studios, it premiered in 2014 and He liked it so much that it was renewed for four seasons in total. The merit is a well-constructed plot and a very powerful cast of protagonists: Lee Pace, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Kerry Bishé, Toby Huss and Alana Cavanaugh.

• Qualification: Halt and Catch Fire
• Release date: 2014
• Duration: 40 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

The Office

Because the American version has arrived on Netflix, the one that became world famous. But what is in Filmin is the English version from 2001, the original, where Ricky Gervais played the first Michael Scott of history

Wernhann Hogg is a paper company as boring as its name suggests. But in the offices of the Berkshire subsidiary something is about to change. The workers will have the opportunity to tell in a documentary key what their day-to-day is like in the fascinating world of paper office automation.

For those who only know the American version, this return to the origins will taste like glory, and for those who have not yet dared with The Office there is nothing like starting from the origin of everything. When else could you see a Jim played by the magnificent Martin Freeman?

• Qualification: The Office
• Release date: 2001
• Duration: 30 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

Infiltration

Two ordinary men embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world’s most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.

This serial documentary was quite an impact in the year of the pandemic, since The infiltrator premiered in 2020 with everyone at home locked up. And it was quite a bombshell because it is not a false documentary, it is totally true.

Danish director Mads Brügger infiltrates two men in North Korea to uncover a scandal that puts the regime of Kim Jong-Un and the popular Spanish diplomat Alejandro Cao de Benós in the pillory.

The Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Denmark have already brought the documentary to the United Nations Security Council, so you can get an idea of ​​how important and impressive this documentary is in the form of a series of two chapters.

• Qualification: Infiltration
• Release date: 2020
• Duration: 60 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

Nobel

A soldier from the war in Afghanistan becomes the pawn of an international conspiracy that will test his devotion to his family. His role leads him to seriously question how far he is willing to go to keep the peace.

With this synopsis, Filmin presents a series (2017) that had not yet been released in Spain despite the fact that outside our borders it was very popular, especially in the last year where the news of Afghanistan has occupied newspapers, television news and social networks. But not only for that.

The series has been nominated at the Monte Carlo Television Festival and won the Prix Europa for the best European miniseries., thanks to an exceptional Aksel Hennie who embroiders the role of a tormented and devoted soldier.

• Qualification: Nobel
• Release date: 2017
• Duration: 45 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

Hap and Leonard

Leonard is a womanizing Texan who can’t stop getting into trouble, and Hap is a fresh-out-of-the-closet African-American Vietnam veteran with a bad temper. It all starts when Hap’s ex-wife, Trudy, offers them a deal they can’t refuse: a simple and effective plan to get rich instantly.

One of the latest series from Michael K. Williams (Omar Litte on The Wire) is a crime black comedy of two flops who, as always, do not know how unlucky they are in everything they do. Hence, his foolproof plan to get rich goes as wrong as it could.

They say that sounds like Country and that tastes like Tarantino, and the truth is that they are not without reason, since this mixture of the old west in a modern series fits perfectly, although it is not as excellent as Quentin’s works of art, we are not here to make false promises either.

• Qualification: Hap and Leonard
• Release date: 2016
• Duration: 45 minute episodes
• Platform: of the movie

As you can see, there is much more life than the classic options of Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video or Disney +. Y The best thing is that this life is here, in Spain.

Add the titles you like the most to your favorites lists. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.