Movies like Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida (1979)
The best movies like Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida (1979) are Kayara (2025), History of the World: Part I (1981) and In the Heights (2021). If Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMacario (1960)8.7/10 from 228 votes
- NewestThe Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)Released 2025
- In SpanishKayara (2025)Also in Spanish
Kayara (2025)
A courageous and athletic teenager, Kayara dreams that she is destined to be the first female to break into the league of Chasquis - the official messengers of the Incan empire. As she learns what it takes to be a Chasqui along with its challenges, she tackles every mission she gets and discovers the ancient stories of her land and her people.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHistory of the World: Part I (1981)
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Heights (2021)
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMe gusta, pero me asusta (2017)
Brayan Rodriguez is an innocent heir to a criminal Sinaloa family sent to Mexico City to expand the business, and where he meets Claudia, and their worlds collide. Love and fun are everywhere.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRobin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMacario (1960)
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisStrange Voyage (1964)
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRichard III (1995)
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Emperor's New Groove (2000)
When the self‑absorbed Emperor Kuzco is accidentally transformed into a llama, he must rely on a humble villager to survive the jungle and reclaim his throne.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKidnapped (2010)
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. But the family fights back - brutally.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSmart House (1999)
Ben Cooper and his family are struggling to get a grip on household chores, school and work. So when Ben sees that a Smart House is being given away, he enters the competition as often as he can, until they eventually win the house (named Pat). After moving in, Pat's personality radically begins to change, turning the Coopers against her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecret Beyond the Door (1947)
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDevil Between the Legs (2019)
Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoma (2018)
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Broken Crown (2016)
In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends of the mind state of a single woman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnder the Volcano (1984)
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMemories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)
To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. The madam finds him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who is selling her virginity to support her family. When he sees Delgadina sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida?
The closest matches to Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida are Kayara (2025), History of the World: Part I (1981) and In the Heights (2021). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida?
Start with Kayara (2025), the closest match to Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida.
What is the highest-rated movie like Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida?
Macario (1960), rated 8.7/10 by 228 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida?
The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida?
Yes: Kayara (2025), Me gusta, pero me asusta (2017) and Macario (1960).
How are movies similar to Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Crónica de Dos Mundos: Infancia y Partida, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.