Movies like Identifying Features (2020)
The best movies like Identifying Features (2020) are Battle in Heaven (2005), The Bastards (2008) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012). If Identifying Features hooked you with its drama and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Thin Yellow Line (2015)8.5/10 from 273 votes
- NewestLost in the Night (2023)Released 2023
- In SpanishBattle in Heaven (2005)Also in Spanish
Battle in Heaven (2005)
Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bastards (2008)
A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican day-laborers in L.A. Each day another task, each day the same pressure to find money. They go about their daily routine, standing on the corner at the Home Improvement Store waiting for work to come. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeroic (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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAna's Desire (2021)
Ana and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The 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 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 thisHeli (2013)
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHuman Animals (2020)
The harmony of a seemingly idyllic neighborhood is disrupted when a dog attacks a young girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWorkforce (2020)
Francisco was building a luxurious house in Mexico where a fatal accident caused the death of his brother. When Francisco learns that his widowed sister-in-law will not receive a compensation from the opulent owner of the house, he will seek justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOur Time (2018)
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfter Lucia (2012)
Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
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 thisDevil Between the Legs (2019)
Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCola 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisUtama (2022)
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this600 Miles (2015)
Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his covers, he and Arnulfo end up in a journey where he will be the hostage of this young criminal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & 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 thisA Monster with a Thousand Heads (2016)
When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for the care that can help him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Longest Night (2019)
A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a drug addiction prevent her from delivering her usual share. An unexpected event will give her the opportunity to stop obeying and take justice into her own hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Las Aparicio (2016)
Three generations of women who share a strange family tradition: all widowed in extraordinary circumstances; all give birth only to girls. This is the film based on the television series.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Thin Yellow Line (2015)
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCrónicas (2004)
A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJosé (2020)
José lives with his mother in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. He spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, José is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
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 thisDaniel & Ana (2009)
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Share (2018)
While staying at a tropical resort, a man becomes convinced the American timeshare company running it has an evil plan to take away his loved ones.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisLost 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: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Identifying Features?
The closest matches to Identifying Features are Battle in Heaven (2005), The Bastards (2008) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Identifying Features?
People who watched Identifying Features most often go on to Battle in Heaven (2005), The Bastards (2008) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like Identifying Features?
The Thin Yellow Line (2015), rated 8.5/10 by 273 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Identifying Features?
Lost in the Night (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Identifying Features?
Yes: Battle in Heaven (2005), The Bastards (2008) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012).
How are movies similar to Identifying Features chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Identifying Features, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.