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Movies Like Lo que le pasó a Santiago

If you liked Lo que le pasó a Santiago (1989), a comedy and drama movie directed by Jacobo Morales, 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. 1I Do...Knot

    I Do...Knot (2009)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of…

  2. 2Cyrus

    Cyrus (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before…

  3. 3María Isabel

    María Isabel (1967)

    ★ 8/10Also comedy and drama

    A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity

  4. 4Delirious

    Delirious (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved…

  5. 5Love & Sex

    Love & Sex (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…

  6. 6You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…

  7. 7Sex, Shame & Tears

    Sex, Shame & Tears (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities…

  8. 8Let Me Be with You

    Let Me Be with You (2025)

    ★ 8.1/10Also romance and comedy

    Lucía lives with an incurable disease, and Bruno was deported to Mexico with no place to sleep. An unexpected phone call brings them together in an emotional story of overcoming, reconstruction and hope.

  9. 9Numb

    Numb (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel…

  10. 10Which Brings Me to You

    Which Brings Me to You (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of…

  11. 11A California Christmas: City Lights

    A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy

    Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.

  12. 12Enemies, a Love Story

    Enemies, a Love Story (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

  13. 13L.A. Without a Map

    L.A. Without a Map (1999)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedy

    An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a…

  14. 14He Said, She Said

    He Said, She Said (1991)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions…

  15. 15The Big Picture

    The Big Picture (1989)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his…

  16. 16New York, I Love You

    New York, I Love You (2008)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East…

  17. 17A California Christmas

    A California Christmas (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas.

  18. 18Happiness for Beginners

    Happiness for Beginners (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    At a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip.

  19. 19Belle Époque

    Belle Époque (1992)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he…

  20. 20Enfermo Amor

    Enfermo Amor (2022)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romance

    The story of love struggles of 9 different couples, connected only by the complexity of human relationships.

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