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Movies Like Yo quiero una mujer así

If you liked Yo quiero una mujer así (1950), a movie directed by Juan Carlos Thorry, 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. 1From Afar

    From Afar (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

  2. 2Carlito's Way

    Carlito's Way (1993)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

  3. 3Original Sin

    Original Sin (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

  4. 4Revenge

    Revenge (1990)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican…

  5. 5El Polaquito

    El Polaquito (2003)

    ★ 6.8/10

    At age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, also working for the Mafia controlling child…

  6. 6Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

  7. 7Goodbye

    Goodbye (2019)

    ★ 7/10

    Seville, Spain. Juan Santos, a convicted petty criminal, gets out of jail for a day to celebrate with Triana, his wife, the first communion of their daughter Estrella.

  8. 8Las acacias

    Las acacias (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to…

  9. 9Lost Paradise

    Lost Paradise (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Mexican Caribbean islands are famous for their spectacular beauty. The vast distance where them are found, has transformed them into dens of heartless men, prepared to whatever they need to do in order to remain…

  10. 10Loving Pablo

    Loving Pablo (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10

    The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a…

  11. 11Belle Époque

    Belle Époque (1992)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he…

  12. 12Motherless Brooklyn

    Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10

    New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.

  13. 13Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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.

  14. 14Dad

    Dad (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…

  15. 15You Can't Take It with You

    You Can't Take It with You (1938)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited…

  16. 1625th Hour

    25th Hour (2002)

    ★ 7.3/10

    On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

  17. 17The 7th Day

    The 7th Day (2004)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a feud involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Fuentes house. Isabel's…

  18. 18Hotel Coppelia

    Hotel Coppelia (2021)

    ★ 7.6/10

    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…

  19. 19The Bosses

    The Bosses (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Set in 2013 Monterrey, Poncho is a student at a prestigious college, he goes to get weed with his friend El Greñas, they go to La Bomba to get some. Although when La Bomba runs out of weed, they decide to take him on a…

  20. 20Amores Perros

    Amores Perros (2000)

    ★ 7.6/10

    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.

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