Is it possible to filter Spark DataFrames to return all rows where a , How can I return only the rows of a Spark DataFrame where the values for a column are within a specified list? Here's my Python pandas way of How can I return only the rows of a Spark DataFrame where the values for a column are within a specified list? Here's my Python pandas way of doing this operation: df_start = df[df['name'].isin(['App Opened', 'App Launched'])].copy() I saw this SO scala implementation and tried several permutations, but couldn't get it to work.