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10 Best Movies Like The Perfect Absent

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

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#1
Midaq Alley

Midaq Alley

1995★ 7.1

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

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to...

#2
Battle in Heaven

Battle in Heaven

2005★ 5.8

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

Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss...

#3
Live Flesh

Live Flesh

1997★ 7.0

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

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desi...

#4
Amores Perros

Amores Perros

2000★ 7.6

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

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless m...

#5
Roma

Roma

2018★ 7.6

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

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time....

#6
Sex and Lucía

Sex and Lucía

2001★ 6.7

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

Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life....

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