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10 Best Movies Like Garrincha: Lonely Star

If you loved Garrincha: Lonely Star, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Pelé: Birth of a Legend

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

2016★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Garrincha: Lonely Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele....

#2
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Garrincha: Lonely Star 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...

#3
Elis

Elis

2016★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Garrincha: Lonely Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film tells the story of the energetic and pulsating singer Elis Regina since her arrival in Rio de Janeiro at age 19 until her tragic and early death. Despite all the difficult...

#4
The Son of a Thousand Men

The Son of a Thousand Men

2025★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Garrincha: Lonely Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Garrincha: Lonely Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Garrincha: Lonely Star 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...

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