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10 Best Movies Like Elite Squad

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

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#1
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

2010★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elite Squad for fans of Drama & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the...

#2
Carandiru

Carandiru

2003★ 7.6

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

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of o...

#3
Last Stop 174

Last Stop 174

2008★ 7.2

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

Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the i...

#4
Pelle the Conqueror

Pelle the Conqueror

1987★ 7.3

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

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to tr...

#5
City of God

City of God

2002★ 8.4

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

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related vio...

#6
Fruitvale Station

Fruitvale Station

2013★ 7.4

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

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, ...