Movies Like Cinco fueron escogidos

If you liked Cinco fueron escogidos (1943), a movie directed by Agustín P. Delgado and Herbert Kline, 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
Undercover (2024)
★ 7.1/10
Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.
2
The 13 Roses (2007)
★ 6.6/10
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the…
3
His Kind of Woman (1951)
★ 6.8/10
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported…
4
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
★ 6.7/10
Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures…
5
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.
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The Long Game (2024)
★ 7.1/10
In a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, they formed their own team, built a one-hole course in the fields, and…
7
Shiver (2008)
★ 6.1/10
Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants…
8
La Bola Negra (2026)
★ 8.1/10
The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.
9
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
★ 7.3/10
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for…
10
Kamchatka (2002)
★ 6.7/10
In 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.
11
The Snitch Cartel (2011)
★ 7.2/10
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"
12
The Endless Trench (2019)
★ 6.9/10
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to…
13
The Clan (2015)
★ 6.8/10
In 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.
14
A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
★ 7.3/10
Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
15
Guernica (2016)
★ 5.8/10
The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.
16
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
★ 6.4/10
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
17
Sky High (2020)
★ 6.1/10
A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.
18
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
★ 6.5/10
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning…
19
Piggy (2022)
★ 6.5/10
A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.
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Argentina 1985 (2022)
★ 7.8/10
In 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.