Movies Like My Universe in Lowercase

If you liked My Universe in Lowercase (2013), a movie directed by Hatuey Viveros Lavielle, 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
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
★ 7.4/10
In 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.
2
Rosa's Wedding (2020)
★ 6.2/10
Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business.
3
Sanky Panky (2007)
★ 7.7/10
In the Dominican Republic, Genaro works in a small family store and lives with his mother in a poor neighborhood. He is learning a few words in English and dreams of being a Sanky Panky to marry an American tourist to…
4
My Mom Jayne (2025)
★ 8/10
Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and…
5
Schoolgirls (2020)
★ 6.6/10
In early 1990s Spain, eleven-year-old Celia lives with her mother and studies at a convent school in Zaragoza. When Brisa, a confident new classmate from Barcelona, arrives, Celia is drawn into a world that challenges…
6
Baraka (1992)
★ 8.2/10
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
7
The Wailer (2006)
★ 6.7/10
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
8
27 Nights (2025)
★ 6.4/10
When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life.
9
7 Boxes (2012)
★ 6.8/10
It’s Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a cell phone in Mercado 4. He is offered the chance to deliver seven boxes with…
10
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
★ 6.8/10
A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this…
11
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
★ 7.1/10
Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.
12
Utama (2022)
★ 7.2/10
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile…
13
The Book of Life (2014)
★ 7.5/10
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans…
14
Dream of Light (1992)
★ 7.3/10
Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.
15
Mammal (2016)
★ 6.3/10
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…
16
Radical (2023)
★ 8.3/10
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and…
17
Amores Perros (2000)
★ 7.7/10
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.
18
How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
★ 6.9/10
An aging Latin lover gets dumped by his sugar mama and must fend for himself in a harsh world.
19
Homo Argentum (2025)
★ 6.1/10
The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.
20
180° South (2010)
★ 7.2/10
The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia.