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10 Best Movies Like A Retirada

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

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#1
The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

2025★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Retirada for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is ...

#2
Moon Over Parador

Moon Over Parador

1988★ 5.8

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

Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he c...

#3
I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here

2024★ 7.9

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

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbit...

#4
Duck Soup

Duck Soup

1933★ 7.3

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

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale....

#5
Awakenings

Awakenings

1990★ 7.8

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

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...

#6
The Dictator

The Dictator

2012★ 6.2

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

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed....

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