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10 Best Movies Like Cão de Guarda

If you loved Cão de Guarda, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
She Rides Shotgun

She Rides Shotgun

2025★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cão de Guarda for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 9-year-old daughter, Polly, at all costs. With scant resources and no on...

#2
Dad

Dad

1989★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cão de Guarda for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever befor...

#3
Like Father

Like Father

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cão de Guarda for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a workaholic young executive is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic f...

#4
King of California

King of California

2007★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cão de Guarda for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Charlie gets released from an insane asylum and moves in with Miranda, the young daughter he left behind. Charlie believes that there is treasure hidden beneath the local Costco, s...

#5
Central Station

Central Station

1998★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cão de Guarda for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew....

#6
Have Dreams, Will Travel

Have Dreams, Will Travel

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cão de Guarda for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally unsatisfying family life....

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