Movies Like El Tiempo que nos Quiebra
If you liked El Tiempo que nos Quiebra, a drama movie directed by Mateo Dolenz, 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
The Clan (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIn Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.
- 2
Garage Olimpo (1999)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaMaría is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds…
- 3
Kamchatka (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaIn 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents of two children, who, knowing they are wanted, decide to hide.
- 4
The Beloved (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAcclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his latest project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with…
- 5
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…
- 6
Absent (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaMartín, a young student, gets injured during a swimming class. Sebastián, the PE teacher, takes him to the hospital. When they leave, he offers to drive him home, but Martín is planning to spend the night at a…
- 7
Acrimony (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaFaithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot let it go.
- 8
El Polaquito (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAt age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, also working for the Mafia controlling child…
- 9
Night of the Pencils (1986)
★ 7/10Also dramaThe Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National…
- 10
La Ciénaga (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAmid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of…
- 11
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
- 12
Pain and Glory (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaSalvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he…
- 13
May December (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaTwenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
- 14
Goodbye (2019)
★ 7/10Also dramaSeville, 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
Barreda (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA fictionalized drama film based on one of the most shocking crimes in Argentina's history. In 1992, Ricardo Barreda was an unassuming dentist, brutally murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and two adult daughters in…
- 16
Argentina 1985 (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaIn the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
- 17
Unthinkable (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaThe government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes…
- 18
The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also drama20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
- 19
Flowers in the Attic (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAfter the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
- 20
Pacto de Fuga (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaDuring the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.