Movies like Insiang (1976)
The best movies like Insiang (1976) are Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), Moral (1982) and The Woman Who Left (2016). If Insiang hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Young and the Damned (1950)8.1/10 from 570 votes
- NewestMa' Rosa (2016)Released 2016
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMoral (1982)
The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Woman Who Left (2016)
After three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and subsequent discovery of the man who framed her — her ruling class ex-lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimes and Winds (2006)
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNorte, the End of History (2014)
An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced to take a harsh sentence; and a mother and her two children wander the countryside in search of some kind of redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSamaritan Girl (2004)
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money, and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those men, she suppresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who's jealous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTakva: A Man's Fear of God (2006)
Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear of God begins to eat away at his senses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKisapmata (1981)
A young woman gets married but her authoritarian father refuses to let her out of his sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Young and the Damned (1950)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAnna and the Wolves (1973)
The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOrdinary People (2016)
Ordinary People is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not even a month into parenthood, their child is stolen from them. In order to retrieve the child, the young couple is forced to take desperate measures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Motel (2003)
Lorenzo decides to work abroad to give his wife Divine and their children a bright future. Divine, who is against his plan is left lonely. But when his stay abroad is extended to five years instead of three years, Divine finds it hard to resist temptation. She gets involved in a passionate relationship with Dick. When Lorenzo comes back, divine is left to choose between the two.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fish Tank (2009)
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWedding in White (1972)
Set in Canada during World War II, a young girl's brother comes home from his army base, and brings an buddy with him. After a night of drinking, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant - and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Prison (1949)
A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFrom What Is Before (2014)
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned. Ferdinand Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081, putting the entire country under martial law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Stand Alone (1999)
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, the Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHyenas (1992)
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mouchette (1967)
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTen (2002)
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove and Anger (1969)
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Autumn (2008)
Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMa' Rosa (2016)
Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Irina Palm (2007)
Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is desperately short, Maggie acts to raise the cash in a fashion that surprises everyone but her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMammal (2016)
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMetro Manila (2013)
Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, where all kind of perils lurk in every corner, Oscar catches a lucky break when he is offered a steady work for an armored truck company and the senior officer Ong takes him under his wing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisButterfly on a Wheel (2007)
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKiller's Kiss (1955)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlowers in the Attic (2014)
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Insiang?
The closest matches to Insiang are Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), Moral (1982) and The Woman Who Left (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Insiang?
People who watched Insiang most often go on to Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), Moral (1982) and The Woman Who Left (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Insiang?
The Young and the Damned (1950), rated 8.1/10 by 570 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Insiang?
Ma' Rosa (2016) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Insiang chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Insiang, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.