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Movies like La petición (1976)

The best movies like La petición (1976) are Carne (1968), Pimp (2018) and The Coming of Sin (1978). If La petición hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Carne (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

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  2. Pimp (2018)

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  3. The Coming of Sin (1978)

    A superstitious servant girl - who has foreboding nightmares about a naked man on horseback - comes to live with a solitary female artist at her country chateau. As the artist takes the girl under her wing, a sensuous relationship develops between them.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  4. Hungry Hearts (2015)

    The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  5. The Quietude (2018)

    Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  6. The Devil's Double (2011)

    A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  7. Lost in the Night (2023)

    A young man from a small mining town embroils himself with a wealthy family with a dubious past.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  8. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)

    Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  9. The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)

    Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  10. Brooklyn Rules (2007)

    Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  11. Ill Manors (2012)

    Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  12. The 7th Day (2004)

    Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a feud involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Fuentes house. Isabel's uncle is murdered by Jeronimo Fuentes, who later tries to stab her father. After Jeronimo dies in jail, Isabel must look outside of her family for the truth, learning from the village idiot that her father may have set fire to the Fuentes home.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  13. Saturday Night Fever (1977)

    Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  14. The Crew (2008)

    Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  15. Suburbia (1984)

    When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  16. Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

    The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  17. Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)

    On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to stay. But are these strangers really who they say they are?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  18. The Glorias (2020)

    An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has made an everlasting mark on modern history. A nontraditional chronicle of a trailblazing life.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)

    Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  20. Crimes of Passion (1984)

    Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  21. A Woman in Flames (1983)

    Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns out to be a call boy, as well. Consequently, she moves into his penthouse, large enough for both to offer their services separately.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  22. Fleur (TBA)

    A New York housewife flees America and her husband of 30 years to reinvent herself in Paris as Fleur, an upscale escort and dominatrix carving out her own power and identity. But as her past collides with her new life, the question isn’t just whether she’ll return… but whether she can.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  23. Fuck Work (2015)

    Identity and performance, resistance and submission, and monotony and quiet rage crash into one another in this clear-eyed vision of a lesbian working as a professional dominatrix with a police officer as a regular client.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  24. The Dominatrix (2004)

    Dom is the story of Jade, a young woman torn between her search for spirituality and her dark life as a dominatrix. Her powerful spoken word poetry ignites the interest of a young rockstar and when her world is shattered by death and violence, Jade must choose between control and giving herself up to love.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  25. My Mistress (2014)

    After the death of his father, a 16-year-old boy struggles with anger and instability, distancing himself from his mother. His search for escape leads him to a lonely dominatrix living nearby, a woman accustomed to giving and controlling pain. Drawn to her world, he seeks both solace and love, while she finds herself pulled into a bond that neither expected but both need.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  26. The Abnormal Female (1969)

    A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems, each as each relates her particular case, we see it in flashback.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  27. PVT Chat (2021)

    Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy NYC Chinatown street.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  28. The Players Club (1998)

    Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  29. Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)

    Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  30. The Raspberry Reich (2004)

    Gudrun has modeled her amateur German terrorist group after the 1970s Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang). She attempts to imitate her heroes by kidnapping the son of a wealthy industrialist and hopes to negotiate leftist demands from the father. When Gudrun’s not spouting leftist verses (including during a hilariously brilliant fuck session), she’s trying to convince her all-male gang to abandon their heterosexuality, which she believes is the result of mass delusion.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like La petición?

The closest matches to La petición are Carne (1968), Pimp (2018) and The Coming of Sin (1978). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after La petición?

Start with Carne (1968), the closest match to La petición.

What is the highest-rated movie like La petición?

The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015), rated 6.8/10 by 602 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like La petición?

Lost in the Night (2023) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there Spanish movies like La petición?

Yes: Carne (1968), The Coming of Sin (1978) and The Quietude (2018).

How are movies similar to La petición chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside La petición, 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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