Movies like Suffocation
If Suffocation's mix of mexico city, mexico, poverty and ex-con stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Suffocation's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Young and the Damned
1950 · Directed by Luis Buñuel · 82 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: mexico city, mexico · Also a Spanish-language drama
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
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Amores Perros
2000 · Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 154 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: mexico city, mexico · Also 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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Roma
2018 · Directed by Alfonso Cuarón · 135 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: mexico city, mexico · Also a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
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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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Barbie
2023 · Directed by Greta Gerwig · 114 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: motherhood, mother daughter relationship
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living…
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Mildred Pierce
1945 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 111 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: mother daughter relationship
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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The Miracle of Marcelino
1955 · Directed by Ladislao Vajda · 91 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother.
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God's Crooked Lines
2022 · Directed by Oriol Paulo · 155 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.
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Goodbye
2019 · Directed by Paco Cabezas · 110 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Seville, Spain. Juan Santos, a convicted petty criminal, gets out of jail for a day to celebrate with Triana, his wife, the first communion of their daughter Estrella.
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Ema
2019 · Directed by Pablo Larraín · 107 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso 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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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.