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Movies Like Diary of Cristina Gaston

If you liked Diary of Cristina Gaston (1982), a drama movie directed by Joey Gosiengfiao, 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. 1Selina's Gold

    Selina's Gold (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Selina's father sells her to Tiago who makes her a sex slave. With the help of Domeng, Tiago's blind slave, she plans their way out of this living hell.

  2. 2Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  3. 3Farming

    Farming (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of…

  4. 4Dear Mr. Gacy

    Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

  5. 5Extremities

    Extremities (1986)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In…

  6. 6Crash

    Crash (1996)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.

  7. 7Addicted

    Addicted (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

  8. 8Lockdown

    Lockdown (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and…

  9. 9Undisputed II: Last Man Standing

    Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This…

  10. 10Suburbia

    Suburbia (1984)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them…

  11. 11Blindfire

    Blindfire (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the…

  12. 12I Walk the Line

    I Walk the Line (1970)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the…

  13. 13Rise of the Footsoldier 3

    Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.

  14. 14Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  15. 15Lizzie

    Lizzie (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family…

  16. 16Bronson

    Bronson (2009)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

  17. 17Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  18. 18The Rookie

    The Rookie (1990)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…

  19. 19Romper Stomper

    Romper Stomper (1992)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending…

  20. 20Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

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