15 Movies Like Vaya con Dios
Loved Vaya con Dios? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
Sister Act
When lively lounge singer Deloris sees her mobster beau commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, she proceeds to upend the quiet lives of the resident sisters.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#2
Horrible Bosses 2
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#3
How High
Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#4
14 and Under
This episodic film is a close relative of Wolf Hartwig's schoolgirl report movies, made by the same people, in a similar style, around similar topics. However, this one specifically focuses on the coming-of-age aspects, to an extent that it also touches on delicate issues such as paedophilia.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Vaya con Dios.
#5
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#6
Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#7
The Little Hours
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#8
Horst Schlämmer sucht das Glück
Horst Schlämmer is back—and he's fed up. People all over Germany are in a bad mood. So he leaves Grevenbroich and sets off in search of happiness. It must be somewhere!
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Vaya con Dios.
#9
The Three Stooges
Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the only home they've ever known to close, the trio sets out to raise $830,000 in one month. Out in the world for the very first time, the three innocent bumblers become embroiled in a murder plot and find stardom on a TV reality show.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#10
Good Bye, Lenin!
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Vaya con Dios.
#11
13 Chairs
A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of a 100,000 DM contains which the rich aunt has hidden there.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Vaya con Dios.
#12
Agnes and His Brothers
Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a night club. The three brothers just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Vaya con Dios.
#13
Babes
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Vaya con Dios.
#14
Pornorama
A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Vaya con Dios.
#15
Sissi
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Vaya con Dios.