Movies like Two Sons of Francisco (2005)
The best movies like Two Sons of Francisco (2005) are Tim Maia (2014), Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004) and Minha Fama de Mau (2019). If Two Sons of Francisco hooked you with its drama and history, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Dog's Will (2000)8.4/10 from 1,263 votes
- NewestNosso Sonho (2023)Released 2023
Tim Maia (2014)
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004)
Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMinha Fama de Mau (2019)
An emotional dive into the music and life of Erasmo Carlos, from his years as a young rock-and-roller looking for gigs through his enduring musical partnership with Roberto Carlos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Name Ain't Johnny (2008)
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisÓ Paí, Ó: Look at This (2007)
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 creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGonzaga: From Father to Son (2012)
Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLinha de Passe (2008)
In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class family. Each of her sons has a different unknown father: the oldest, Dênis, has a baby son that lives with his mother and he works as motorcycle courier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElis (2016)
The film tells the story of the energetic and pulsating singer Elis Regina since her arrival in Rio de Janeiro at age 19 until her tragic and early death. Despite all the difficulties, success comes fulminant and the life of Elis Regina gained national and international recognition, becoming undoubtedly considered today the greatest Brazilian singer of all time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConfessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Story of Me (2009)
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
If I Were You (2006)
The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDurval Discos (2002)
Durval and his mother Carmita live at the back of a record store they own in São Paulo specializing in vinyl records. They lead a boring and unattractive life, until the day Durval hires a maid, Celia, to help his mother with the housekeeping. However, on her second day, Celia goes away leaving a 5-year-old child behind, Kiki, and a note promising to be back in a couple of days. Durval and Celia are charmed by the child at first, but soon they see some sad news about Celia and Kiki on TV that change the whole situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Stop 174 (2008)
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 infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNosso Sonho (2023)
The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk melody in all time, showing how the rhythm and poetry of the periphery conquered Brazil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Man Who Copied (2003)
A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRio, Northern Zone (1957)
A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Simonal (2019)
A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Madame Satã (2002)
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarighella (2021)
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (2017)
In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman – the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she’s very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLegalize It! (2017)
The meeting between two young guys, Marcelo —in the future, Marcelo D2— and Skunk , who sold t-shirts and cassette tapes in the center of Rio de Janeiro to survive, resulted in one of the most popular bands in Brazil in the 1990’s, Planet Hemp. Suppressed by a prejudiced society, the two made of their music a cry of alertness and resistance, conquering the hearts and minds of an entire generation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Lower City (2005)
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Clown (2011)
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Dog's Will (2000)
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 judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBrazilian Western (2013)
When João goes to Brazil in search of a better life, he meets punk music enthusiast Maria and falls in love with her. But his involvement in the local drug trade makes him the target of a vicious drug lord.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOrfeu (1999)
Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
SnoozefestMovies like thisLisbela and the Prisoner (2003)
Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Mom Is a Character (2013)
After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Man of the Year (2003)
Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOlga (2004)
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Two Sons of Francisco?
The closest matches to Two Sons of Francisco are Tim Maia (2014), Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004) and Minha Fama de Mau (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Two Sons of Francisco?
People who watched Two Sons of Francisco most often go on to Tim Maia (2014), Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004) and Minha Fama de Mau (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Two Sons of Francisco?
A Dog's Will (2000), rated 8.4/10 by 1,263 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Two Sons of Francisco?
Nosso Sonho (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Two Sons of Francisco chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Two Sons of Francisco, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.