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10 Best Movies Like Balún Canán

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

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#1
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

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

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#2
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

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

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#3
Men of Hard Skin

Men of Hard Skin

2019★ 6.0

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

Ariel is a good-looking farm boy who lives with his father and sister in a rural part of Buenos Aires province. He has become familiar with sex thanks to Omar, a priest with whom h...

#4
Sin tetas no hay paraíso

Sin tetas no hay paraíso

2010★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Balún Canán 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...

#5
Martin (Hache)

Martin (Hache)

1997★ 7.5

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

After having a nearly fatal drug overdose, 19-year-old Argentine Martin is sent to Madrid, where his film director father lives with his new, younger lover, Alicia, and his bisexua...

#6
Under the Same Moon

Under the Same Moon

2007★ 7.7

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

Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mot...

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