Movies like Unit 7 (2012)
The best movies like Unit 7 (2012) are Golpes (2025), 7 Virgins (2005) and The Replacement (2021). If Unit 7 hooked you with its drama and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCamino (2008)7.6/10 from 230 votes
- NewestMexicali (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishGolpes (2025)Also in Spanish
Golpes (2025)
Fresh from prison in 1980s Spain, Migueli reunites his gang for heists to settle past debts. His brother Sabino, now a cop assigned to the case, knows his methods - but Migueli won't stop until he reaches his goal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
7 Virgins (2005)
It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Replacement (2021)
Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfter (2009)
Manuel, Ana and Julio get together in a warm summer night after not having seen each other for a while and set off to explore the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Goodbye (2019)
Seville, Spain. Juan Santos, a convicted petty criminal, gets out of jail for a day to celebrate with Triana, his wife, the first communion of their daughter Estrella.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fury of a Patient Man (2016)
Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing in Return (2015)
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Heroes of Evil (2015)
Three teenagers, brought together from bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them escalates to killing, and desires to kill again. Anyone can become his next victim. The other two face the question: should they resort to violence to stop the killings?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarshland (2014)
The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Realm (2018)
Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEl Bola (2000)
El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sleeping Voice (2011)
Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCell 211 (2009)
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrincesses (2005)
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSmoke & Mirrors (2016)
A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Tale (2005)
Cubelles, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMay God Save Us (2016)
Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSky High (2020)
A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManticore (2022)
Julián is a successful video-game designer whose life is plagued by a dark secret. But when Diana pops up in his life, the man will feel as though a chance at happiness is within his grasp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCamino (2008)
A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInnocent Killers (2015)
Garralda is a troubled college student who only has to pass one last subject to obtain his academic degree. When his teacher catches him copying on a test, he requires him to perform a very unethical task in exchange for passing and thus achieving his goal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Mule (2013)
A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisOut in the Open (2019)
A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively from what has made him flee. His steps will intersect with those of a pastor and, from that moment, nothing will be the same for either of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Endless Trench (2019)
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStreet Warriors (1977)
Based on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and '80s in Spain. Set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona, one of the most conflict-heavy neighborhoods in Spain, it follows real juvenile delinquents, all with criminal records, who give the film a realistic touch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Barren Land (2025)
Barren Land is the story of three friends. All three trapped between the abandonment of the institutions, the violent and unstoppable rise of the narco in the province and the dangerous increase of social discontent. Three friends trapped in a powder keg that will test their friendship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnknown Origins (2020)
In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man who owns a comic book store.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 13 Roses (2007)
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMexicali (2026)
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStraight from the Barrio (2008)
A young drug dealer falls in love while facing disruption among the men in his gang, and being offered a career as a Reggaetón singer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Unit 7?
The closest matches to Unit 7 are Golpes (2025), 7 Virgins (2005) and The Replacement (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Unit 7?
People who watched Unit 7 most often go on to Golpes (2025), 7 Virgins (2005) and The Replacement (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like Unit 7?
Camino (2008), rated 7.6/10 by 230 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Unit 7?
Mexicali (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Unit 7?
Yes: Golpes (2025), 7 Virgins (2005) and The Replacement (2021).
How are movies similar to Unit 7 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Unit 7, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.