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10 Best Movies Like Viva Cuba

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

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#1
Elegy

Elegy

2008★ 6.3

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

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student w...

#2
I Can't Think Straight

I Can't Think Straight

2008★ 7.5

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

Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited C...

#3
Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson

1935★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Viva Cuba for fans of Drama & Fantasy & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little tim...

#4
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Viva Cuba 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....

#5
The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

2013★ 6.0

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

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother....

#6
Tear This Heart Out

Tear This Heart Out

2008★ 7.9

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

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it i...

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