Movies like Blocks
If Blocks's mix of flashlight, chile and crush stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Blocks's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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No
2012 · Directed by Pablo Larraín · 118 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: chile · Also a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight…
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Ema
2019 · Directed by Pablo Larraín · 107 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: chile · Also a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo.
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Under the Same Moon
2007 · Directed by Patricia Riggen · 106 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
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Amores Perros
2000 · Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 154 min7.6
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
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Endless Poetry
2016 · Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky · 128 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic…
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El Angel
2018 · Directed by Luis Ortega · 115 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse.
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The Swan
2023 · Directed by Wes Anderson · 17 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: short film
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.
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Matador
1986 · Directed by Pedro Almodóvar · 105 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
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Deseo
2013 · Directed by Antonio Zavala Kugler · 97 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
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The 33
2015 · Directed by Patricia Riggen · 120 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: chile · From the same decade (2010s)
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.