Best Spanish language movies of all time (according to critics)

Newsweek Magazine has reviewed and compiled data from Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and IMDb to list the 50 best Spanish language films of all time. Here for you, the top 10:

(Spoiler Alert: four Luis Buñuel’s jewels made the cut.)

10. HABLE CON ELLA. Talk to Her (2002). Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Total score: 82.3%
Summary: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

9. SIMÓN DEL DESIERTO. Simon of the Desert (1965). Directed by Luis Buñuel. Total score: 82.5% Summary: Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

8. SOY CUBA. I Am Cuba (1964). Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. Total score: 83%
Summary: Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

7. EL SUR. The South (1988). Directed by Victor Erice, Carlos Saura. Total score: 84%
Summary: Estrella, a little girl from Southern Spain, maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region of her birth, an attachment manifested in her love for her father.

6. NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ. Nostalgia For The Light (2011). Directed by Patricio Guzmán. Total score: 84.3%
Summary: Master director Patricio Guzmán travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars.

5. TRISTANA (1970). Directed by Luis Buñuel. Total score: 85%
Summary: Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.

4. EL ESPÍRITU DE LA COLMENA. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973). Directed by Víctor Erice. Total score: 85.7%
Summary: In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.

3. VIRIDIANA (1961). Directed by Luis Buñuel. Total score: 86%
Summary: Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

2. EL ÁNGEL EXTERMINADOR. The Exterminating Angel (1962). Directed by Luis Buñuel. Total score: 86%
Summary: The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

1. EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO. Pan's Labyrinth (2006). Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Total score: 88.7%
Summary: In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.