
10 Best Movies Like Desierto
If you loved Desierto, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Chile '76
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desierto for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, ...

Under the Same Moon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desierto for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 mot...

Night of the Pencils
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desierto for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine di...

El Polaquito
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desierto for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
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 work...

Ema
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desierto for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer GastĂłn is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Po...

Iron Jawed Angels
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desierto for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....