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10 Best Movies Like Marianela

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

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#1
The Weakness of the Bolshevik

The Weakness of the Bolshevik

2003★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marianela 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...

#2
Post Tenebras Lux

Post Tenebras Lux

2012★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marianela 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...

#3
Sin tetas no hay paraíso

Sin tetas no hay paraíso

2010★ 7.3

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

Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Bayron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status a...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Ixcanul

Ixcanul

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marianela 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...

#6
Tótem

Tótem

2023★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Marianela 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...

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