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Movies Like Pueblerina

If you liked Pueblerina (1949), a drama and romance movie directed by Emilio Fernández, 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. 1Rosario Tijeras

    Rosario Tijeras (2005)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and drama

    Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy…

  2. 2Tear This Heart Out

    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…

  3. 3The Heart Knows

    The Heart Knows (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance and drama

    After a heart transplant, Manuel feels a personality shift and explores his donor's life, leading him to meet the widowed Vale and her community.

  4. 4The Crime of Padre Amaro

    The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair…

  5. 5Mandingo

    Mandingo (1975)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and drama

    Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he…

  6. 6Silent Light

    Silent Light (2007)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.

  7. 7Duel in the Sun

    Duel in the Sun (1946)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

  8. 8Mexicali

    Mexicali (2026)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

  9. 9Miss Bala

    Miss Bala (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

  10. 10Revenge

    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…

  11. 11Tess

    Tess (1979)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex…

  12. 12New Order

    New Order (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to…

  13. 13The Sleeping Dictionary

    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…

  14. 14Goodbye

    Goodbye (2019)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    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.

  15. 15Amores Perros

    Amores Perros (2000)

    ★ 7.7/10Also 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.

  16. 16Blood and Sand

    Blood and Sand (1941)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.

  17. 17Our Time

    Our Time (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage…

  18. 18City Girl

    City Girl (1930)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

  19. 19Maria's Lovers

    Maria's Lovers (1984)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.

  20. 20Urban Cowboy

    Urban Cowboy (1980)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    After moving to Pasadena, Texas, country boy Bud Davis starts hanging around a bar called Gilley's, where he falls in love with Sissy, a cowgirl who believes the sexes are equal. They eventually marry, but their…

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