Movies like Norte, the End of History (2014)
The best movies like Norte, the End of History (2014) are The Woman Who Left (2016), Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and On the Job (2013). If Norte, the End of History hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)7.5/10 from 562 votes
- NewestQuezon (2025)Released 2025
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 thisManila 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 thisOn the Job (2013)
On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Shadow Behind the Moon (2015)
The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Graceland (2012)
When a kidnapping goes wrong, a desperate father risks everything to save his daughter from the men who hold her captive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Insiang (1976)
A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBatang West Side (2001)
When a Filipino teen is found fatally shot on the streets of New Jersey, the investigation into his death reveals the struggles of the Filipino-American community, including the horrifying effects of methamphetamine on its youth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Honor Thy Father (2015)
Edgar's family is caught in a financial ruin after being involved in a Ponzi scheme. With their church's bishop refusing to return their donation, and his daughter subsequently kidnapped, he seeks the aid of his criminally inclined family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Melancholia (2008)
Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Trial (2014)
A mentally-challenged guy was put into trial after allegedly raping his teacher. And as Amanda, Julian, and Ronald try to mount a convincing defense, they discover soon that they're all connected in more ways than just the case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Birdshot (2016)
A farm girl mistakenly shoots and kills an endangered Philippine Eagle. When authorities begin a manhunt to track down the eagle’s killer, they stumble upon an even more horrific discovery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ma' 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
Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
Spanning from 1971 to 1987, in rural areas under the Marcos regime, a poor farming family struggle to overcome challenges brought on by corruption and greed for power.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ordinary 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
Green Bones (2024)
A soon-to-be released criminal and a corrections officer is still grieving over the death of his sister opposing the prisoner's release.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Moral (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
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember (2016)
A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty years of imprisonment. After two decades, they are released but soon begin to disappear one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Ballot (2024)
A land-grabbing tycoon and a former sexy male actor are in a tight race for mayor in a small town. When violence erupts, Emmy, a teacher, runs into the wilderness with a ballot box, the last copy of the election result.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Kisapmata (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 crime & drama
Quezon (2025)
A historical drama focusing on Manuel L. Quezon years after the Philippine Revolution during the American occupation. When his fight for independence from the United States is put to the test, Quezon finds himself playing the brutal game of politics to outmaneuver his rivals — including Leonard Wood, Sergio Osmeña, and Joven Hernando. In Quezon’s relentless quest for power, he ultimately faces off with Emilio Aguinaldo in the 1935 presidential elections, using charm and favoritism as both weapons and currency, in a campaign that ultimately changes the face of Philippine politics and history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dead Kids (2019)
A socially awkward teen bonds with a group of misfits who plot to abduct the school's arrogant rich kid -- until their kidnapping scheme turns deadly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & 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
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEach Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Web (1947)
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYield to the Night (1956)
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Without Pity (1957)
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWitness to Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
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What are the best movies like Norte, the End of History?
The closest matches to Norte, the End of History are The Woman Who Left (2016), Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and On the Job (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Norte, the End of History?
People who watched Norte, the End of History most often go on to The Woman Who Left (2016), Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) and On the Job (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Norte, the End of History?
The Asphalt Jungle (1950), rated 7.5/10 by 562 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Norte, the End of History?
Quezon (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Norte, the End of History chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Norte, the End of History, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.