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Movies Like Viva

If you liked Viva (2015), a drama movie directed by Paddy Breathnach, 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. 1Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

  2. 2On the Road

    On the Road (2026)

    ★ 8.4/10Also drama

    Veneno, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets Muñeco, a hard-edged driver who keeps to himself. He convinces Muñeco to take him…

  3. 3Memories of a Teenager

    Memories of a Teenager (2019)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    After the suicide of his best friend and the fire of a local dance called Cromañón, including recitals, illegal parties in an abandoned warehouse and high school, a year passes by in the life of Zabo who writes…

  4. 4Men of Hard Skin

    Men of Hard Skin (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Ariel is a good-looking farm boy who lives with his father and sister in a rural part of Buenos Aires province. He has become familiar with sex thanks to Omar, a priest with whom he has a secret affair.

  5. 5Kids

    Kids (1995)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

  6. 6The Tender Bar

    The Tender Bar (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined…

  7. 7Cowboys

    Cowboys (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.

  8. 8First Match

    First Match (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.

  9. 9Endless Poetry

    Endless Poetry (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic…

  10. 10Moonlight

    Moonlight (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his…

  11. 11Welcome to the Rileys

    Welcome to the Rileys (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t…

  12. 12Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    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…

  13. 13James White

    James White (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks…

  14. 14Cassandro

    Cassandro (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the…

  15. 15My Brother the Devil

    My Brother the Devil (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic…

  16. 16The Boys in the Band

    The Boys in the Band (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.

  17. 17Where the Day Takes You

    Where the Day Takes You (1992)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie…

  18. 18Ema

    Ema (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get…

  19. 19Pain and Glory

    Pain and Glory (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Salvador 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…

  20. 20Hellion

    Hellion (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for…

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