Movies like Güeros (2014)
The best movies like Güeros (2014) are Chicuarotes (2019), Duck Season (2004) and Sex, Shame and Tears 2 (2022). If Güeros hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOut of the Clear Blue Sky (2019)8.3/10 from 396 votes
- NewestHeroic (2023)Released 2023
- In SpanishChicuarotes (2019)Also in Spanish
Chicuarotes (2019)
Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform their lives, they quickly devolve into the criminal, adult underworld of Mexico City in a bid to buy their freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDuck Season (2004)
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSex, Shame and Tears 2 (2022)
Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hole in the Fence (2021)
As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI'm No Longer Here (2019)
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFireflies (2018)
Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Amazing Catfish (2013)
Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou're Killing Me Susana (2016)
An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2012)
In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEl Infierno (2010)
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisViolet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001)
Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisA Wonderful World (2006)
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this¡Que viva México! (2023)
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Golden Dream (2013)
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHerod's Law (1999)
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisKilling Cabos (2004)
Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisOut of the Clear Blue Sky (2019)
Returning to Earth as an imitator, the legendary Mexican artist Pedro Infante must prove that he is no longer a womanizer to enter paradise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLake Tahoe (2008)
After crashing the family car, Juan encounters a cast of eccentric and fantastic characters who each try to help. But what begins as a mundane adventure quickly becomes a transformative journey exploring issues of death, family, love and sex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Seeds (2018)
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Heroic (2023)
Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the hope of securing a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to make him a perfect soldier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Dream in Another Language (2017)
An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInnocent Voices (2005)
A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLove Hurts (2002)
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPerras (2011)
Something terrible is happening in class 3A at Calmecatl Junior High. No one can leave the classroom until the guilty party is found. This is the device that gives us a glimpse of the ethics, games, esthetics and eroticism of these girl-women. It is not easy to say what the subject is, there are so many: the discovery of sexuality, discrimination, chance, drugs, maternity, traditions, betrayals, power, love. A mural of a complex reality from the point of view of twenty-something women in the skin of 14 to 15 year old girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRed Dawn (1990)
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisWhile the Wolf's Away (2017)
A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCompadres (2016)
A disgruntled Mexican cop is forced to work with a teenage hacker to hunt down the criminals who killed his wife, and dismantle their operation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHalf Brothers (2020)
Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the U.S.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Güeros?
The closest matches to Güeros are Chicuarotes (2019), Duck Season (2004) and Sex, Shame and Tears 2 (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Güeros?
People who watched Güeros most often go on to Chicuarotes (2019), Duck Season (2004) and Sex, Shame and Tears 2 (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Güeros?
Out of the Clear Blue Sky (2019), rated 8.3/10 by 396 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Güeros?
Heroic (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Güeros?
Yes: Chicuarotes (2019), Duck Season (2004) and Sex, Shame and Tears 2 (2022).
How are movies similar to Güeros chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Güeros, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.