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10 Best Movies Like Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

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

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#1
Elite Squad

Elite Squad

2007★ 8.1

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

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers i...

#2
Carandiru

Carandiru

2003★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elite Squad: The Enemy Within 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: The Enemy Within 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
Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This

Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This

2007★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elite Squad: The Enemy Within for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creati...

#5
A Dog's Will

A Dog's Will

2000★ 8.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elite Squad: The Enemy Within for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be ju...

#6
City of God

City of God

2002★ 8.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Elite Squad: The Enemy Within 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...