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Movies Like Lizards' Tales

If you liked Lizards' Tales (1989), a drama movie directed by Juan Carlos Bustamante, 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. 1Cardboard Boxer

    Cardboard Boxer (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    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.

  2. 2Flow

    Flow (1996)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

  3. 3Erótica

    Erótica (1979)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted…

  4. 4Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  5. 5Not Without Hope

    Not Without Hope (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.

  6. 6Prayers for the Stolen

    Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping…

  7. 7Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  8. 8Among Wolves

    Among Wolves (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Entre lobos (Among Wolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with…

  9. 9Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

  10. 10Until the End of the World

    Until the End of the World (2026)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama

    Manuel's life is upended when Esmeralda, his lost love from 15 years ago, calls unexpectedly. Despite being set to marry another, he rediscovers Esmeralda, and they realize their love transcends time.

  11. 11The Miracle of Marcelino

    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…

  12. 12Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  13. 13Salomé

    Salomé (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé…

  14. 14Under the Same Moon

    Under the Same Moon (2007)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.

  15. 15Rogue Agent

    Rogue Agent (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

  16. 16Hotel Coppelia

    Hotel Coppelia (2021)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    1965, Dominican Republic. At a seaside brothel, the lives of a group of prostitutes take a dramatic turn when freedom fighters stage a revolutionary coup, making them realise they can have a better life and perhaps…

  17. 17The Red Virgin

    The Red Virgin (2024)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.

  18. 18Bad Girl

    Bad Girl (2016)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Bad girl Amy is given one last chance by her adoptive parents, who think her friendship with local girl Chloe is a step in the right direction. But when Amy discovers that Chloe harbors a dark secret, she finds herself…

  19. 19The Heiresses

    The Heiresses (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    After her girlfriend is imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela…

  20. 20Kisses

    Kisses (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

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