Movies like Bitter Christmas

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   Corina

   Strong story similarity

   2025 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Corina is 20 years old and does not leave her house except to work in a publishing house located in the neighborhood where she lives. After making a serious mistake with the end of the company's most famous book saga, Corina must overcome her fears with the help of Carlos and embark on a journey in search of a mysterious writer to save her job and that of her colleagues.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   A Man Called Otto

   Similar atmosphere

   2022 · 126 min · Comedy · Drama

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   When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Unpregnant

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · 104 min · Comedy · Drama

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   After discovering she can’t legally get an abortion in Missouri without her parents’ permission, teenager Veronica convinces her former best friend Bailey to take a road trip to Albuquerque to seek the procedure.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Litus

   Shared cast

   2019 · 85 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A group of friends reunited after the suicide of one of them must face all the secret and lies between them.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Love & Revolution

   Similar atmosphere

   2023 · 108 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Seville, 1977. At a time when homosexuality is a crime, Reme, a traditional mother moved by the love of her son, an adolescent aspiring artist, will become involved in the Andalusian LGBTQ+ movement, paradoxically born in the bosom of the Church.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: gay theme and lgbt
   • a closely matched era

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   My Father Marianne

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · 110 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: lgbt

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   ¿Cómo matar a mamá?

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 99 min · Comedy · Drama

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   After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother's life.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Beloved

   Shared cast

   2026 · 135 min · Drama

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   The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Roma

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 135 min · Drama

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   In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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    Problemista

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 104 min · Comedy

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    Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era

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