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What are some Spanish movies with Spanish subtitles?

I need to work on my comprehension of spoken Spanish, and sometimes it's helpful to have the Spanish subtitles playing along with the Spanish soundtrack to movies, telenovelas, or other Spanish programming, so I can check what I'm hearing with what they're really saying.

But the subtitles on TV are always so terrible -- misspelled and horribly out of sync. I've tried to find some movies or telenovelas on DVD, but they only seem to have Spanish movies with ENGLISH (or French) subtitles. I want Spanish subtitles.

Surely there are deaf Spanish speakers who use this? I can't find any though. I've looked at all the usual suspects, Pedro Almodovar movies and so one, but am striking out.

It doesn't have to be highbrow stuff; cheesy telenovelas are great fun.

Anyone know of any? SPL availability a plus, or Netflix.

Fnarf asked in Film about 1 year ago | Report

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    El Mariachi by Robert Rodriguez is in Spanish, and I believe also has Spanish subtitles. At least, the special edition DVD of just that movie has it ... I'm not sure about the box sets that also include Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

    Mahtli69 answered in Film about 1 year ago | Report
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    [Rec] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/ - good documentary-style zombie movie.
    The Orphanange - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464141/ - Ghost movie, not the same as "Orphan", slow but psychologically satisfying.

    Brammimonde answered in Film about 1 year ago | Report
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    Do they have to be Spanish movies?

    There are a number of DVDs that have dubbed Spanish language as an option and also Spanish subtitles as an option.

    For example if you go to the following page and click on Full Record you'll see it has dubbed Spanish and also Spanish subtitles:

    http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2683672030_cyrus

    SPL search lets you narrow it down to language and format, but I don't think you can search by subtitle language. So you have to view the Full Record one-by-one to see what subtitles it offers.

    DVDs with Spanish language (a lot of the recent big hollywood films seemed to offer Spanish language and Spanish subtitles)::

    http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/search?custom_edit=false&custom_query=language%3A%22spa%22+formatcode%3A%22DVD%22&f_language=spa&page=1&suppress=true

    DVDs with Spanish language and supposedly Spanish movies:

    http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/search?custom_edit=false&custom_query=language%3A%22spa%22+formatcode%3A%22DVD%22&f_language=spa&suppress=true&f_genre_headings=Motion+pictures%2C+Spanish

    stinkbug answered in Film about 1 year ago | Report
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    You might want to try going to Scarecrow video and looking in the sections for Spanish-speaking countries for DVDs that are coded for region 2. These will be European-release versions that are more likely to have closed-captioning in the original language.

    You won't be able to play them in a normal U.S. DVD player, but you can probably modify your computer to be region-free.

    Tom Sackett answered in Film about 1 year ago | Report
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