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10 Best Movies Like Mamá

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

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#1
Adú

Adú

2020★ 6.9

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

In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far...

#2
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mamá 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...

#3
Martin (Hache)

Martin (Hache)

1997★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mamá 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...

#4
Lion's Den

Lion's Den

2008★ 6.3

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

Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jai...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mamá 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...

#6
Secrets of the Heart

Secrets of the Heart

1997★ 6.4

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

Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the ...

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