Movies Like Chica
If you liked Chica (2023), a drama movie directed by Juan Yactayo Sono, 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.
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20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaLucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at…
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XXY (2007)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAlex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final…
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Trafficked (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to…
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Bombshell (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaBombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
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Boys Don't Cry (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
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Speak (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaFreshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles…
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Paulina (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaPaulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high…
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Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaYears after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t…
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Gracie (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
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The Girl in the Book (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaThe story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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Mysterious Skin (2005)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Johnny Belinda (1948)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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Hands of Stone (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaThe legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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On the Road (2026)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaVeneno, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets Muñeco, a hard-edged driver who keeps to himself. He convinces Muñeco to take him…
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Port Authority (2019)
★ 6/10Also dramaPaul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them…
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Star 80 (1983)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaPaul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame…
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Face 2 Face (2017)
★ 6/10Also dramaOver a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
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Cassandro (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the…
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The Naked Kiss (1964)
★ 7/10Also dramaA former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
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Una (2017)
★ 6/10Also dramaWhen a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.