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LISTED: Which cinemas in Spain show English language films?

The majority of cinemas in Spain show movies dubbed into Spanish (Castellano) or another local language such as Catalan. If you want to watch films in English, you'll have to go to specific cinemas. Here are the cinemas you can visit in some of Spain's major cities.

Published: 8 September 2023 16:58 CEST
LISTED: Which cinemas in Spain show English language films?
Where to watch films in English in Spain. Photo: Krists Luhaers / Unsplash

If you want to see a film in its original version in Spain – ie. not dubbed, then you’ll have to look out for specific ‘Version Orginal’ or VO screenings or special VO cinemas.

You may also see movie titles with VOS or VOSE next to them. This means that they’re shown in their original version but with added Spanish subtitles. 

Luckily, in Spain’s big cities, there are many cinemas that show movies that haven’t been dubbed, just in case you want to hear Margot Robbie or Ryan Gosling speaking in their native languages, instead of in Spanish. 

Keep in mind, if you go to see a French movie for example in VO, it will be in the original version, in French, not in English.

Not all films at the below cinemas will be in the original version, so check next to the title of the movie you want to see first. 

READ ALSO: Spain to give €2 cinema tickets to the over 65s

Madrid 

Golem
Artistic Metropol
Cines Renoir Princesa
Renoir Retiro
Verdi
Yelmo Cines Ideal 3D
Cinesa Manoteras
mk2 Palacio de Hielo
Cine Embajadores
OCINE Urban Caleido
mk2 Cine Paz
Cines Yelmo Luxury
Kinépolis Madrid 

Barcelona

Verdi and Verdi Park
Cine Texas
Cine Girona
Cine Yelmo Comedia
Cine Renoir Floridablanca
Mooby Balmes Multicines
Cine Boliche
Cine Phenomena
Cinema Maldà
Filmoteca de Catalunya
El Zumzeig

Valencia

Cines Babel
Cines Yelmo Campanar
ABC Park
Kinépolis
La Filmoteca de Valencia

Seville 
 
Alicante 
 
 
Palma de Mallorca 

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Cate Blanchett to be honoured at Spain’s San Sebastián film festival

Australian actress Cate Blanchett will receive a lifetime achievement award at Spain's San Sebastián film festival in September, organisers said Thursday.

Published: 10 May 2024 09:17 CEST
Cate Blanchett to be honoured at Spain's San Sebastián film festival

The 54-year-old will also feature on the main poster of the 72nd San Sebastián film festival, the highest-profile movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, which takes place from September 20th to 28th.

Blanchett has won two Academy Awards: best actress for her performance in Woody Allen’s 2004 drama “Blue Jasmine” and best supporting actress for her striking appearance as Katherine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator”.

She has worked under numerous renowned directors, including Terrence Malick, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Wes Anderson, Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro G. Iñarritu and Guillermo del Toro.

The festival organisers said she was “one of contemporary cinema’s leading actors” with a “career combining cinema d’auteur with crowd pleasers”.

Past recipients of the so-called Donostia award — the festival’s highest honourary award — include actors Meryl Streep, Richard Gere and Robert De Niro.

It will be the first time Blanchett, a university dropout who grew up in suburban Melbourne, visits San Sebastián.

She will be the second Australian to receive the prize, following in the footsteps of Hugh Jackman.

As well as scooping awards for her more arthouse work, she has also dabbled in blockbusters, playing the elf leader Galadriel in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and a Marvel villain in “Thor: Ragnarok”.

Spanish star Javier Bardem will also receive the Donostia award he won last year but was unable to attend because of the Hollywood actors’ strike, organisers said.

The prize is named after the Basque word for the coastal town of San Sebastián.

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