Movies Like Dance of the Forty One

If you liked Dance of the Forty One (2020), a drama and history movie directed by David Pablos, 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
Battle in Heaven (2005)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who…
2
La Bola Negra (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.
3
Amores Perros (2000)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
4
Wilde (1997)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and history
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a chat at the theatre with Lord Alfred…
5
Zama (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and history
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he…
6
Roma (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
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On the Road (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also 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…
8
El Angel (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path…
9
Red Dawn (1990)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and history
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
10
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…
11
Deseo (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
12
Valentino (1977)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and history
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
13
Under the Volcano (1984)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a…
14
The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and history
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
15
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…
16
God's Crooked Lines (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.
17
Bad Education (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and…
18
Lost in the Night (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A young man from a small mining town embroils himself with a wealthy family with a dubious past.
19
Oslo (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and history
The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that…
20
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
★ 7/10Also drama
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills…