Movies Like La ciudad perdida

If you liked La ciudad perdida (1955), a drama and thriller movie directed by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael María Torrecilla, 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
Garage Olimpo (1999)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds…
2
Operation Ogre (1979)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thriller
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural…
3
Agent Zeta (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller
Four Spanish ex-intelligence officers are assassinated simultaneously worldwide. The CNI discovers all participated in the covert "Operation Ciénaga" decades ago in Colombia. Zeta, the CNI's best operative, must hunt…
4
Kamchatka (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
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.
5
The Clan (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
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.
6
Land of the Blind (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
7
Argo (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thriller
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
8
A Perfect World (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
9
The (Silent) War (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising…
10
Staring at Strangers (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller
Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living with an unknown family.
11
Pacto de Fuga (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thriller
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
12
The Quietude (2018)
★ 6/10Also thriller and drama
Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
13
Trapped (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.
14
The Company You Keep (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thriller
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
15
Death and the Maiden (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
16
The Miracle of Marcelino (1955)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a…
17
Undercover (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller
Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.
18
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…
19
Breaking In (2018)
★ 6/10Also thriller
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to…
20
Boy Missing (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
When her son's alleged kidnapper is released for lack of solid evidence, a reputable and well-known attorney takes matters into her own hands with unintended and spectacularly disastrous consequences.