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10 Best Movies Like La Bodega

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

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#1
Post Tenebras Lux

Post Tenebras Lux

2012★ 6.1

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

Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to el...

#2
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to La Bodega 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...

#3
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#4
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

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

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#5
Prayers for the Stolen

Prayers for the Stolen

2021★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to La Bodega 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...

#6
Ixcanul

Ixcanul

2015★ 6.8

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

María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs...

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