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10 Best Movies Like Dispatches from Nicaragua

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

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#1
White Girl

White Girl

2016★ 5.7

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

Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back....

#2
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#3
The Son

The Son

2002★ 7.5

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

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets....

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dispatches from Nicaragua for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#5
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dispatches from Nicaragua for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacom...

#6
Android Re-Enactment

Android Re-Enactment

2011★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dispatches from Nicaragua for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love...