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10 Best Movies Like CATHARSIS

If you loved CATHARSIS, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Tótem

Tótem

2023★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CATHARSIS for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other rela...

#2
Don't Be Afraid

Don't Be Afraid

2011★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CATHARSIS for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to th...

#3
Prayers for the Stolen

Prayers for the Stolen

2021★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CATHARSIS for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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...

#4
Inside I'm Dancing

Inside I'm Dancing

2004★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CATHARSIS for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed wh...

#5
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CATHARSIS for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, g...

#6
The Weakness of the Bolshevik

The Weakness of the Bolshevik

2003★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CATHARSIS for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a date. When she refuses and inst...

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