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10 Best Movies Like Five Times Favela

If you loved Five Times Favela, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Times Favela for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

#2
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Times Favela for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#3
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Times Favela for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#4
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Times Favela for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#5
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Times Favela for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the fami...

#6
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Times Favela for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

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