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Movies like Cine Teatro Iris

The best movies like Cine Teatro Iris are Burden of Dreams (1982), Hot Milk (2025) and Hounddog (2008). If Cine Teatro Iris hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Burden of Dreams (1982)

    The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  2. Hot Milk (2025)

    Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  3. Hounddog (2008)

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

    Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)

    A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. Seduced and Abandoned (2013)

    SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. Redbelt (2008)

    Martial artist Mike Terry lives by a strict code of no competitions, for he feels that such contests weaken fighters. After saving a famous action star from a brutal attack, Mike takes a job in the film industry. He soon finds his personal beliefs and integrity on the line as circumstances force him to participate in a prize fight.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  8. Electrick Children (2012)

    Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

    The story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "SCUM" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he repeatedly ignored her. So she shot him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

    A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. Holy Lands (2019)

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. The Perez Family (1995)

    In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. Final Flight of the Osiris (2003)

    Immediately before the events of The Matrix Reloaded, the crew of the hovercraft Osiris discovers a quarter of a million sentinels drilling through the surface of the earth towards the last human city of Zion. But can the Osiris survive long enough to warn Zion?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

    After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Jungle Cruise (2021)

    Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. Woman on Top (2000)

    Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

    A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  19. The Hunchback (1997)

    Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmeralda.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  20. Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003)

    A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Cine Teatro Iris?

The closest matches to Cine Teatro Iris are Burden of Dreams (1982), Hot Milk (2025) and Hounddog (2008). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Cine Teatro Iris?

Start with Burden of Dreams (1982), the closest match to Cine Teatro Iris.

What is the highest-rated movie like Cine Teatro Iris?

Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003), rated 7.7/10 by 742 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Cine Teatro Iris?

Hot Milk (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Cine Teatro Iris?

Yes: Burden of Dreams (1982), Hot Milk (2025) and Hounddog (2008).

How are movies similar to Cine Teatro Iris chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Cine Teatro Iris, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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