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10 Best Movies Like La Ciénaga

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

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#1
Paulina

Paulina

2015★ 6.4

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

Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina d...

#2
The Official Story

The Official Story

1985★ 7.5

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

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the d...

#3
Fish Tank

Fish Tank

2009★ 6.9

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

Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to ...

#4
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#5
The Clan

The Clan

2015★ 6.8

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

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages fo...

#6
Argentina 1985

Argentina 1985

2022★ 7.8

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

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time....

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