Movies like Ema (2019)
The best movies like Ema (2019) are A Fantastic Woman (2017), The Good Girls (2019) and The Maid (2009). If Ema hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMachuca (2004)7.7/10 from 222 votes
- NewestUntil the End of the World (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishA Fantastic Woman (2017)Also in Spanish
A Fantastic Woman (2017)
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Good Girls (2019)
Sofía, a well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Maid (2009)
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Chambermaid (2019)
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKaradima Forest (2015)
Based on true events, involving powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima, who committed crimes of child abuse and pedophile between 1980's-2000's. The struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Heiresses (2018)
After her girlfriend is imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future (2023)
A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Neruda (2016)
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Prince (2019)
Chile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, lonely 20-year-old Jaime is sentenced to prison. There, he meets The Stallion, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, Jaime faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisToo Late to Die Young (2019)
During a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
No (2012)
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMachuca (2004)
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOur Mothers (2019)
Guatemala, 2018. The country is riveted on the trial of the military officers who started the civil war. The victims’ testimonials keep pouring in. Ernesto, a young anthropologist at the Forensic Foundation, identifies people who have gone missing. One day, through an old lady’s story, Ernesto thinks he has found a lead that will allow him to find his father, a guerillero who disappeared during the war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cola de mono (2018)
It's Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. Both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller, this is a story about the ways that passion and desire control our lives—from pop-culture tastes to sexual fantasies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGloria (2013)
Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJackie (2016)
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Most Beautiful Couple (2019)
While two young teachers are spending their summer holiday on the Mediterranean coast they are overwhelmed by a sudden attack. Back home, they try to deal with the trauma in their own ways until a surprising encounter changes everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
April's Daughters (2017)
Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to her daughters, but we soon understand why Valeria had wanted her to stay away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisChile '76 (2022)
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPost Mortem (2010)
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBombshell (2019)
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTony Manero (2008)
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFair Game (2010)
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDreamfactory (2019)
A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWorking Woman (2019)
While her husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business, a mother of three lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harrassive realtor and brings herself to fight back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
In Her Place (2024)
After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between the two women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSex with Love (2003)
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHands of Stone (2016)
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Ema?
The closest matches to Ema are A Fantastic Woman (2017), The Good Girls (2019) and The Maid (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Ema?
People who watched Ema most often go on to A Fantastic Woman (2017), The Good Girls (2019) and The Maid (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like Ema?
Machuca (2004), rated 7.7/10 by 222 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Ema?
Until the End of the World (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Ema?
Yes: A Fantastic Woman (2017), The Good Girls (2019) and The Maid (2009).
How are movies similar to Ema chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Ema, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.