The House of the Spirits

Is The House of the Spirits worth watching?

Yes — The House of the Spirits earns a 78% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Francisca Alegría & Fernanda Urrejola and streaming on Prime Video.

Critics Consensus

Lush, sweeping and faithful in spirit even where it streamlines, this long-awaited adaptation finally gives Allende's generational epic room to breathe — handsome, heartfelt and quietly furious.

Celluloid Critics Consensus

What is The House of the Spirits about?

Read back through Clara del Valle's journals, the saga of the Trueba family unspools from the 1920s toward the military coup that will shatter it half a century later — a clairvoyant matriarch, a tyrannical patriarch, and three generations of women who inherit both the gift and the wreckage. Shot on location across Chile and steeped in magical realism, this adaptation folds Isabel Allende's landmark novel into eight hours of forbidden love, hauntings and history closing in.