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10 Best Movies Like Açúcar

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

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#1
Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Açúcar for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing dep...

#2
The Cave

The Cave

2019★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Açúcar for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the supervision of paediatrician Dr. Aman...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017★ 8.1

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

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial mes...

#5
1917

1917

2019★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Açúcar for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers....

#6
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012★ 7.8

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, b...