Movies Like Doctor Lopez

If you liked Doctor Lopez (2026), a drama and documentary movie directed by Miguel Ángel Ibáñez Gutiérrez, here are 13 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Notes on Blindness (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and documentary
After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of…
2
Volver (2019)
Also documentary
A somber journey on the road. A post with three lights. A crowded street. Stashed cables. The city. A grey square. The sun's reflection. The sun. Going back home.
3
Detained and Abandoned (2018)
Also documentary
There are people in the basement of Ila prison and administrative detention center with serious mental sicknesses isloated from the other prisoners and the world. They don't get psychiatric treatment and become more…
4
Scattergood Baines (1941)
★ 7/10Also drama
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected…
5
She Ball (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
On a mission to save his Inglewood community center, Avery Watts enlists a talented basketball player, Shelby, to help him win the grand prize in a street ball tournament. Together, Avery and Shelby challenge local…
6
La Jardinera (2019)
Also documentary
Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and structure coming from a personal relationship with color, light and…
7
Postas de la memoria (2014)
Also documentary
Tragic events that occurred in Argentina and are linked to the post-Malvinas War, state terrorism, trigger-happy police, and the deforestation of the country coexist in a documentary that narrates the different stories…
8
Ring of Passion (1978)
★ 7/10Also drama
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.
9
Living in a Global Village (2018)
★ 9/10Also documentary
A group of visionaries and students return to the abandoned Milan Expo, to reimagine the site as a global village.
10
The Absence of Eden (2024)
★ 5.4/10Also thriller and drama
An ICE Agent struggling with the moral dilemmas of border security and an undocumented woman fighting to escape a ruthless cartel cross paths and work together to save the life of an innocent girl.
11
Las sombras de las lunas (2014)
Also drama
A ghost is something you see but don't hear, or you hear it but don't see it. Julio is separating from Valentina, while he hears and sees Lucía, his girlfriend, who was killed by the police during an eviction.
12
Drawing The Line (2023)
Also drama
Paul struggles with growing older and longs for the days of his youth, because of this Paul is a coke addict trying to recapture the feelings he used to have, creating stress in his marriage to his "High School…
13
Hello Stranger (2018)
Also drama
One late night, Turtle, who tends to neglect the past, encounters Jing, who secludes herself from the world. They decide to take a walk together. The stories carry on, while there is no pause option in life, but to…