Movies Like La Cucaracha

If you liked La Cucaracha (1959), a drama and romance movie directed by Ismael Rodríguez, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
2
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
★ 7.4/10Also war and drama
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron…
3
Wings (1927)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the…
4
Under Fire (1983)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and war
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
5
Revenge (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and drama
Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican…
6
The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
★ 6/10Also romance and drama
Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder…
7
Casablanca (1943)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and romance
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
8
Tristan & Isolde (2006)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
9
Tear This Heart Out (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also romance and drama
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one…
10
The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance
In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…
11
Viva Cuba (2005)
★ 7/10Also drama and romance
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and…
12
The Big Country (1958)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
13
Earth (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance
A mysterious exterminator falls in love with two women who live in a distinctive wine-producing region in Spain.
14
Enamorada (1946)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild…
15
Camila (1984)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance
In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.
16
LA BOLA NEGRA (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and war
The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.
17
The Burning Plain (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is…
18
Firebird (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
19
Not Easily Broken (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
20
The Quiet American (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and drama
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the…