Movies like No hay ida sin retorno (2026)
The best movies like No hay ida sin retorno (2026) are XXY (2007), This Is Not Berlin (2019) and Port Authority (2019). If No hay ida sin retorno hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPrayers for the Stolen (2021)7.6/10 from 202 votes
- NewestTuvimos el deseo de romperlo todo (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishXXY (2007)Also in Spanish
XXY (2007)
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Is Not Berlin (2019)
Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground LGBTQ nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPort Authority (2019)
Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeseo (2013)
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrayers for the Stolen (2021)
Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Father's Miracle (2025)
After being falsely accused of a terrible crime, Hector, a man with a neurological disability, goes to a secret prison. His goodness conquers the prisoners, who plan to prove their innocence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHounddog (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 · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUntil the End of the World (2026)
Manuel's life is upended when Esmeralda, his lost love from 15 years ago, calls unexpectedly. Despite being set to marry another, he rediscovers Esmeralda, and they realize their love transcends time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like this20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRogue Agent (2022)
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarne (1968)
A woman who works in a meat packing plant is continuously preyed upon by lecherous men.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust Charlie (2017)
Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmong Wolves (2010)
Entre lobos (Among Wolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an isolated valley. The old man, who lives in a cave, is unused to human company and at first seems not very interested in having a live-in apprentice. The boy, who was abused by his parents, is frightened and equally aloof initially. Despite this, the shepherd begins teaching Marcos how to herd the goats, as well as how to care for himself and how to survive in the wilderness by trapping and fishing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Dry White Season (1989)
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChinas (2023)
In Madrid, Spain, Lucía and Xiang, two nine-year-old Chinese girls, meet at the beginning of the school year.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Safety of Objects (2002)
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSkin (2009)
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEnemigos (2025)
Chimo turns 18 years and comes from a humble and supportive family. Since childhood he was bullied and even today, while working multiple jobs and dreaming of starting his own business, he continues to face his bully: El Rubio. When Chimo has the opportunity for revenge, he never imagines what begins as an act of retaliation could turn into an unexpected friendship that'll change both their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisErótica (1979)
Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other con man escapes from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove on a Tightrope (2026)
In 1960s Spain, legendary trapecist Pinito del Oro hires young poet Natalia Sosa Ayala to help with her memoirs, sparking a profound emotional bond between them. Through historical events, intimate encounters, and decades of letters, their admiration, affection, and creative passion intertwine. The story moves between memory, desire, and imagination, showing how these two artists influence each other’s quests for freedom, artistic expression, and recognition. Rooted in real moments but told with a dreamlike, imaginative lens, it explores what might have been between them, revealing a tender, evocative tale of connection, longing, and the courage to defy societal constraints.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Pucallpa (2025)
Paris 2007. Elsa, a Peruvian trans woman, is serving a sentence in a men's prison. Sergio, a detainee, makes her his sex slave. Furthermore, the administration refuses her hormone treatment. When Elsa is released, she begins a new life and meets Yena, a young Korean woman who introduces her to Aymeric, her French husband. The attraction between Elsa and him is lightning-fast, calling into question her sexual identity. However, the final obstacle is Sergio. He has just escaped from prison.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Sugar (2026)
Oscar, a young sex worker, spends the night with an older client who introduces him to GHB and promises care. As the drug takes hold, reality fractures and the bathroom transforms—until the night turns dangerous.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Los pájaros (2026)
Álvaro lives trapped between the demands of his sport and the silent violence of his home. While protecting his sister and discovering love outside the family, a pivotal night forces him to confront the burden he has silently carried for far too long.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Clavel Verde (2026)
Self-discovery of Jesús, a young queer man in the early 2000s.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Tuvimos el deseo de romperlo todo (2026)
During an impossible summer in Havana, Ava, a young trans artist, proposes that we film a fiction so she can kiss the boy she likes. We become accomplices to that impulse, using cinema as a refuge to rewrite our own story and escape from a reality in crisis.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
soot (2027)
A young central asian princess, who has always felt out of place, accidentally finds freedom while wearing a suit of knight’s armor; concealing her true identity, she experiences a fleeting moment of genuine happiness with her own fiancé—who falls in love with her, but only in this true guise.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Coming SoonMovies like thisKaugsankamalla: mientras vivamos (2026)
“If I can no longer fight, will you?” Filmed and co-directed by Soraida, this intimate portrait spans the everyday life and activism of Soraida Chindoy, following her journey as an Inga leader defending her community’s sacred mountains from a Canadian mining company in Colombia. Balancing motherhood with community organizing, Soraida's daily life as an Inga woman and land defender is shaped by resilience, responsibility, and an unwavering commitment to her people and territory. As environmental threats intensify, her demands become more urgent — and her disappointment with the international community more profound. ‘Kaugsankamalla: As long as we live’ offers a deeply personal and politically resonant portrait of Indigenous resistance in the face of ecological and cultural loss. Through Soraida’s voice, her images, and her embodied wisdom, we are offered a window into the lived experience of fighting for a future — not just for one community, but for the planet we all share.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Red Soil: An Audiovisual Ecopoetics of the Peruvian Amazon (2026)
Red Soil is an experimental feature-length documentary that explores the tension between life and predation in the Peruvian Amazon. Through a poetic lens, the film portrays how Amazonian societies confront the exploitation of their territories and the encroachment of modern modes of production, while foregrounding the forest’s vitality and the enduring wisdom of Indigenous nations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Querer ser (TBA)
Juan Luis Recio tells the story of what his life was like belonging to the LGBT community through his three great loves, Javier, Miguel, and Jorge, where, through his own poems, he explores what it was like to be homosexual in a time and environment where being one was not well-seen.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like No hay ida sin retorno?
The closest matches to No hay ida sin retorno are XXY (2007), This Is Not Berlin (2019) and Port Authority (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after No hay ida sin retorno?
Start with XXY (2007), the closest match to No hay ida sin retorno.
What is the highest-rated movie like No hay ida sin retorno?
Prayers for the Stolen (2021), rated 7.6/10 by 202 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like No hay ida sin retorno?
Tuvimos el deseo de romperlo todo (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like No hay ida sin retorno?
Yes: XXY (2007), This Is Not Berlin (2019) and Deseo (2013).
How are movies similar to No hay ida sin retorno chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside No hay ida sin retorno, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.