Movies like Kika (1993)
The best movies like Kika (1993) are Dark Habits (1983), Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984). If Kika hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTalk to Her (2002)7.6/10 from 1,504 votes
- NewestThe Trouble with Jessica (2024)Released 2024
- In SpanishDark Habits (1983)Also in Spanish
Dark Habits (1983)
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPepi, Luci, Bom (1980)
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWomen on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHigh Heels (1991)
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLabyrinth of Passion (1982)
An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJamon Jamon (1992)
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Flower of My Secret (1995)
Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaw of Desire (1987)
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTalk to Her (2002)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMatador (1986)
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll About My Mother (1999)
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGolden Balls (1993)
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHomework (1991)
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI'm So Excited! (2013)
Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLovers: A True Story (1991)
A torrid affair between a recently discharged serviceman and an attractive widow leads to murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVolver (2006)
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Tobacconist of Vallecas (1987)
Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMouth to Mouth (1995)
For financial reasons, an aspiring actor begins working for a phone-sex enterprise. Through his new line of work, he develops relationships with two regular clients: Bill, an elderly homosexual, and Amanda, a mysterious femme fatale.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Live Flesh (1997)
When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCarmina and Amen (2014)
After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Red Squirrel (1993)
Jota's suicide attempt is interrupted when a motorcyclist crashes off a bridge. After he rescues her, he decides to invent a life story for her — one of love and shared memories — creating a fragile web of deception that intertwines their fates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBad Education (2004)
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Tit and the Moon (1994)
A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrange Way of Life (2023)
After 25 years, a former hired gun visits his old colleague, now a small-town sheriff. Their past relationship is explored, as is how they reflect on it in the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Opposite of Sex (1998)
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trouble with Jessica (2024)
Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMainstream (2021)
A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Long Way Down (2014)
Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a failed musician—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper's Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family. They become media sensations as the Topper House Four and search together for reasons to keep on living.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Kika?
The closest matches to Kika are Dark Habits (1983), Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Kika?
People who watched Kika most often go on to Dark Habits (1983), Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984).
What is the highest-rated movie like Kika?
Talk to Her (2002), rated 7.6/10 by 1,504 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Kika?
The Trouble with Jessica (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Kika?
Yes: Dark Habits (1983), Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984).
How are movies similar to Kika chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Kika, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.