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10 Best Movies Like El 48

If you loved El 48, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El 48 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
¡Que viva México!

¡Que viva México!

2023★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El 48 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance....

#3
Sundays

Sundays

2025★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El 48 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this bril...

#4
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El 48 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, g...

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El 48 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El 48 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...

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