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10 Best Movies Like Castanha

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

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#1
Inside I'm Dancing

Inside I'm Dancing

2004★ 7.4

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

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed wh...

#2
The Other End

The Other End

2016★ 6.5

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

Diogo (17) has a little quirk: he likes to call his mother's female therapy patients and masturbate while listening to them on the phone. One of these patients is Angela (43), a wo...

#3
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Castanha 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...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Castanha 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...

#5
Just Like Our Parents

Just Like Our Parents

2017★ 7.2

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

Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the exp...

#6
The Movie of My Life

The Movie of My Life

2017★ 7.3

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

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college h...

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