Movies like Rosario Tijeras (2005)
The best movies like Rosario Tijeras (2005) are Miss Bala (2011), Sin Nombre (2009) and The Salesman (2016). If Rosario Tijeras hooked you with its crime and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCity of God (2002)8.4/10 from 8,625 votes
- NewestFollow (2025)Released 2025
- In SpanishMiss Bala (2011)Also in Spanish
Miss Bala (2011)
The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSin Nombre (2009)
Sayra, an Indigenous Latina American teenage girl from Honduras, Central America, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Latino American gang members from Mexico, North America who have boarded the same USA-bound train.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Salesman (2016)
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hanged Man (2009)
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs, and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun. Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaria Full of Grace (2004)
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVolver (2006)
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTalk to Her (2002)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCity of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHeli (2013)
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurnt Money (2000)
Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody, the two men must flee. It is not long before the police are surrounding the building they are in and they must confront their demons to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisY Tu Mamá También (2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTraffic (2000)
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCarancho (2010)
Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBad Education (2004)
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLive Flesh (1997)
When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Burning Plain (2008)
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Snitch Cartel (2011)
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConfessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmores Perros (2000)
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisElite Squad (2007)
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPixote (1980)
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBirds of Passage (2018)
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDangerous Obsession (2004)
An Argentine truck driver is on a routine trip through Rio de Janeiro when he meets a mysterious countryman. They travel back to Argentina together, meeting a beautiful Brazilian journalist on the way. The truck driver has revenge on his mind, and both the adventurous young man, and the gorgeous girl join him in this venture. The only thing the three have in common are their obsession for honor and justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMotel Destino (2024)
Motel Destino, a sex hotel in Northern Brazil, is run by the hot-headed Elias and his restless wife, Dayana. When a young gang member on the run named Heraldo stays at the motel, Dayana becomes intrigued with him. As the two navigate a dance of power and desire, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like this7 Boxes (2012)
It’s Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a cell phone in Mercado 4. He is offered the chance to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents in exchange for $100. This sounds like an easy job but it soon gets complicated. Something in the boxes is highly coveted. Víctor and his persecutors find themselves caught up in a crime they know nothing about.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wild One (1953)
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFollow (2025)
Sebastián, a charismatic con artist who seduces women to steal their money, puts his retirement plans on hold after the sudden appearance of Carolina, an enigmatic woman who will expose him to the greatest danger of his career.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Rosario Tijeras?
The closest matches to Rosario Tijeras are Miss Bala (2011), Sin Nombre (2009) and The Salesman (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Rosario Tijeras?
People who watched Rosario Tijeras most often go on to Miss Bala (2011), Sin Nombre (2009) and The Salesman (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Rosario Tijeras?
City of God (2002), rated 8.4/10 by 8,625 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Rosario Tijeras?
Follow (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Rosario Tijeras?
Yes: Miss Bala (2011), Sin Nombre (2009) and The Hanged Man (2009).
How are movies similar to Rosario Tijeras chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Rosario Tijeras, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.