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Movies Like The War Starts in Cuba

If you liked The War Starts in Cuba (1957), a drama and comedy movie directed by Manuel Mur Oti, 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. 1Patricia, A Hidden Passion

    Patricia, A Hidden Passion (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedy

    Patricia is a successful couples therapist. Your marriage is going through a bad time. But when she meets a student, Pablo will transform her own beliefs about sex.

  2. 2Litus

    Litus (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and comedy

    A group of friends reunited after the suicide of one of them must face all the secret and lies between them.

  3. 353 Sundays

    53 Sundays (2026)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    When three siblings agree to meet and discuss their aging father's future, their reunion spirals into bickering, bantering and reliving old grudges.

  4. 4¡Que viva México!

    ¡Que viva México! (2023)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedy

    After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

  5. 5Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

  6. 6Gloria

    Gloria (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’…

  7. 7The People Upstairs

    The People Upstairs (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana…

  8. 8The Tit and the Moon

    The Tit and the Moon (1994)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and comedy

    A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.

  9. 9Almost Friends

    Almost Friends (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become…

  10. 10Lost Embrace

    Lost Embrace (2004)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedy

    In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his…

  11. 11About Alex

    About Alex (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to…

  12. 12Therapy Done Right

    Therapy Done Right (2026)

    ★ 7.6/10Also comedy and drama

    A psychoanalyst who's lost faith in traditional therapy crosses every boundary to help a blocked novelist in this cutting Argentine dark comedy.

  13. 13Sin tetas no hay paraíso

    Sin tetas no hay paraíso (2010)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Bayron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status and money. She leaves her boyfriend…

  14. 14On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama

    On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian…

  15. 15Family Weekend

    Family Weekend (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

  16. 16Silvia Prieto

    Silvia Prieto (1999)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedy

    After her 27th birthday, Silvia Prieto decides to take charge of her life and make some changes. At the same time, she suddenly finds herself intertwined in the life of another woman who is also named Silvia Prieto.

  17. 17My Own Love Song

    My Own Love Song (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

  18. 18Out of the Clear Blue Sky

    Out of the Clear Blue Sky (2019)

    ★ 8.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Returning to Earth as an imitator, the legendary Mexican artist Pedro Infante must prove that he is no longer a womanizer to enter paradise.

  19. 19Instructions Not Included

    Instructions Not Included (2013)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

  20. 20Class Act

    Class Act (1992)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is ajuvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought…

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