Netflix presents all its new features for 2026, and there is a genre that is an undisputed winner

We have had the opportunity to attend the presentation of Netflix’s plans in Spain for 2026. Except for a couple of very specific successes, such as the ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie or the fourth season of ‘The Bridgertons’, the presentation focused on Spanish productions. And two things caught our attention: the decisive commitment that the platform makes to blockbusters with technical and artistic equipment from here and the strong weight that the true crime in the set. Let’s review these news.

Netflix and Spanish audiovisual

Since Netflix took us to visit their sets and facilities on the outskirts of Madridit was very clear to us that the platform was not here to be a second dish in the panorama of cinema and series. At that time I was in the middle of filming.The snow society‘, a film that gave international prestige to the company’s productions in Spain. Netflix wants to sustain this fame and does so by putting films and series on the table with top-notch casts and crews. These were some of the projects presented:

• The final problem: With Jose Coronado, Maribel Verdú and Martiño Rivas, based on a novel by Pérez-Reverte.
• Thanks, team: Comedy with Maribel Verdú, Pedro Casablanc and Alexandra Jiménez
• Savior: Thriller by Daniel Calparsoro with Luis Tosar and Claudia Salas
• Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine: Second season of the spin-off of La casa de papel, this time set in Seville and with Andrés de Fonollosa, Inma Cuesta, Michelle Jenner, Joel Sánchez and Tristán Ulloa
• 53 Sundays: Film by Cesc Gay with Carmen Machi, Javier Gutiérrez, Alexandra Jiménez and Javier Cámara
• On behalf of another: Film by Oriol Paulo (‘Contratiempo’) with Mario Casas and Blanca Suárez.
• All the truth of my lies: Based on a novel by Elísabet Benavent, with Daniel Ibáñez and Itziar Manero

reality bridge

Before entering into the curious trend that many of Netflix’s Spanish productions are following, its immersion in the true crimelet’s stop at a documentary and a series firmly anchored in reality.

• Rafa: We were not able to see any trailer for this series, but it promises to be the definitive documentary of Rafa Nadalpresenting never-before-seen facets of his career and personality.
• That: Nothing less than Rafael He made an appearance before journalists, presenting a series that documents his career, with two actors, Javier Morgade and Carlos Santos, giving life to the interpreter at different ages. The singer himself gave official legitimacy to the series, and spoke of how satisfied he was with the result, the setting and what it tells.

The appeal of true crime

No platform is unaware that the true crime It is one of the most followed genres today. Netflix itself has already influenced the true crime Hispanic with series like ‘The Asunta case‘, ‘Where is Marta?’, ‘The body on fire‘ and many others. Aware of the commercial appeal of this type of story, many of Netflix’s 2026 proposals belong to the genre, including both fiction and documentaries.

• The crime of Pazos: Tristán Ulloa returns to Galicia after ‘The Asunta case’, although this time on the other side of the law. In it he will play a sergeant of the Vivil Guard convinced that a man has tried to kill his wife despite appearances that they were a perfect couple and that she has been the victim of an attempted robbery. Produces Bambú Producciones, which already did the same with ‘The Asunta Case’.

• The boy: Mariano Barroso signs this adaptation of the novel by Fernando Aramburu, where the author told the story of Nicasio, an octogenarian who usually goes up to the Ortuella cemetery on Thursdays to visit the grave of his grandson, one of the many children who died in a gas explosion at a school in October 1980. This event, which shocked the Basque people, will show how the accident changed many lives in its day.
• Miguel Ángel Blanco: The 48 hours that changed everything: A documentary film by Jon Sistiaga and Juanjo López, which will address the two days in which the entire Spain mobilized trying to stop the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, a delayed death that left a deep mark. This documentary remembers that moment and how it meant the beginning of the end for ETA.
• Wolf: We return to Galicia and Tristán Ulloa, although this time in a secondary role compared to the leading role of Luis Tosar. They will do so in a miniseries that will investigate the real case of Manuel Blanco Romasanta, an itinerant tailor who went down in history as the first documented serial killer in Spain, in rural Galicia in the 19th century. During his defense he claimed to be a werewolf, and the abundant documentation on the case supports the development of this new series.

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