Movies Like Lions
If you liked Lions (2012), a drama and adventure movie directed by Jazmín López, 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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Las acacias (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceRubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to…
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Amor Bandido (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and dramaJoan is a naïve, 16-year-old who falls in love easily. One day he decides to escape to the provinces with Luciana, a beautiful 35-year-old woman and a teacher at his school, in order to give free rein to his love…
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Supercross (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and dramaFaced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
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The Gambler (1979)
★ 7.5/10Also adventure and dramaThree childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to…
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Viva Cuba (2005)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceThe 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…
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Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and romanceA group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
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The Firefly (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceAfter her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
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Cave Rescue (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and dramaWhen a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…
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Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceIn Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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Sahara (1983)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and dramaIntent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara…
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The Last Sunrise (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and dramaRy, a college student with a chronic illness, escapes to Mallorca for the summer with her mother, where she unexpectedly falls for a local and begins to embrace living in the moment. But as her condition worsens and…
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Inferno (1999)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceEddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny. Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who…
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Camila (1984)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceIn 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceWhen his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
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White Water Summer (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and dramaWhen the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic…
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The World to Come (2021)
★ 7/10Also romance and dramaIn 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
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Tuck Everlasting (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceTeenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.
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The Darkest Minds (2018)
★ 7/10Also adventure and dramaAfter a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the…
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceOver the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also adventure and dramaSet in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with…