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10 Best Movies Like Sta. Niña

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

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#1
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#2
Fatima

Fatima

2020★ 7.2

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

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and...

#3
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#4
Goodbye June

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.6

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

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#6
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

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