Movies like Casa de Lava (1995)
The best movies like Casa de Lava (1995) are In Vanda's Room (2001), Horse Money (2014) and Colossal Youth (2006). If Casa de Lava hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)8.4/10 from 11,963 votes
- NewestThe Wonder (2022)Released 2022
In Vanda's Room (2001)
An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHorse Money (2014)
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisColossal Youth (2006)
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOssos (1997)
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVitalina Varela (2019)
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSoleil O (1973)
An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Intruder (2005)
An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNobody Knows I'm Here (2020)
Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Ciénaga (2001)
Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEl Sur (1983)
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTony Manero (2008)
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLucía (1968)
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the 1960s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Dead (1987)
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChile '76 (2022)
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHold Me While I'm Naked (1966)
Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLast Resort (2000)
Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya, intent on staying in England, is forced to apply for political asylum and transferred to Stonehaven, a grimy former seaside resort where refugees are housed. Tanya gradually develops a relationship with an amusement arcade manager, who helps them escape. She must then decide whether to stay with him or return to Russia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisArabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ornithologist (2016)
Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLisbon Story (1994)
Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDistant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAparajito (2022)
A young filmmaker prepares for the debut of his first feature film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Woman of Straw (1964)
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wonder (2022)
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Map of the World (1999)
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleep, My Love (1948)
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisF.I.S.T. (1978)
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChronic (2015)
David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships with the people he cares for. But outside of work, it's a different story altogether.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Casa de Lava?
The closest matches to Casa de Lava are In Vanda's Room (2001), Horse Money (2014) and Colossal Youth (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Casa de Lava?
People who watched Casa de Lava most often go on to In Vanda's Room (2001), Horse Money (2014) and Colossal Youth (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like Casa de Lava?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), rated 8.4/10 by 11,963 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Casa de Lava?
The Wonder (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Casa de Lava chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Casa de Lava, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.