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10 Best Movies Like Maria do Mar

If you loved Maria do Mar, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fatima

Fatima

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maria do Mar for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and...

#2
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maria do Mar 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
The Son of a Thousand Men

The Son of a Thousand Men

2025★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maria do Mar 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....

#4
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maria do Mar 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....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maria do Mar 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
Herself

Herself

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maria do Mar for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws...

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