Movies Like Contraviento

If you liked Contraviento (2016), a movie directed by Abel Amador and David Villareal Vázquez, 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
With Honors (1994)
★ 6.7/10
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
2
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…
3
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
★ 7.2/10
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
4
Cardboard Boxer (2016)
★ 6.5/10
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
5
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
★ 7.2/10
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
6
Return of the Seven (1966)
★ 6.1/10
Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The…
7
Adult World (2014)
★ 6/10
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
8
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.
9
Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)
★ 6.8/10
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
10
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
★ 7.4/10
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
11
The Soloist (2009)
★ 6.7/10
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
12
Being Flynn (2012)
★ 6.2/10
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
13
Happy Together (1989)
★ 5.9/10
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room…
14
Great Expectations (2012)
★ 6.4/10
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but…
15
In America (2003)
★ 7.1/10
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
16
Mala Noche (1987)
★ 6.1/10
Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire…
17
The Good Heart (2009)
★ 6.4/10
Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a…
18
Almost Friends (2017)
★ 6.3/10
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become…
19
Paterson (2016)
★ 7.1/10
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
20
The Doors (1991)
★ 7.1/10
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.