Breathless (Seasons 1–3)

Breathless (Respira, 2024) is a Spanish medical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Inside an overstretched public hospital, doctors and nurses fight to keep patients alive while a staff strike and constant shortages push everyone to the edge.

Residents clash with veteran surgeons, romances tangle with ambition, and the duty of care keeps colliding with hospital politics. The cast pulls from Spain's top tier — Manu Ríos, Blanca Suárez, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Najwa Nimri — under a directing team led by David Pinillos. Every shift brings a fresh emergency and a decision that has to be made in minutes.

Coming from Carlos Montero, the creator of Elite, the show swaps high-school heat for the ICU: same fast, tangled storytelling, higher stakes. Good for anyone who likes their hospital drama dense and emotional rather than slick and procedural. Stream every episode of Breathless online on iFILM.