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Movies that feel like Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004)

If you loved Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop, the closest films we have are Treeless Mountain (2009), Straight Outta Compton (2015) and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988). Most of the picks below share Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop's contemplative and stylish feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

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.

6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Walter Carvalhocontemplativestylishepic

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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Not nearly as stylish

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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Straight Outta Compton
2015 · dir. F. Gary Gray
🍅 89%7.8drama · music · history

Common ground: aids

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

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🍅 76%7.2documentary · music

Music with a pulse of style, in both cases

The difference: Leans further into documentary

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.A.S.P..

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We Are the Best!
2013 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 97%7.1drama · music

Both lean on stillness more than on history

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

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La Vie en Rose
2007 · dir. Olivier Dahan
🍅 50%7.5music · drama

Both are built on the same subject: biography

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.

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Deep Water
2006 · dir. Louise Osmond
🍅 96%7.8documentary · adventure · drama

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: Played as documentary first

DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever – the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.

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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · dir. Terence Davies
🍅 80%7.4drama · music

Stylish drama in both cases

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006 · dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
🍅 88%7.9documentary · music

Music built on style, twice over

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

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Two Sons of Francisco
2005 · dir. Breno Silveira
🍅 80%6.9drama · history · music

History with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.

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20 Feet from Stardom
2013 · dir. Morgan Neville
🍅 99%7.4documentary · music

Both are music through and through

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

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Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 60%7.9music · drama

One thread runs through both: aids

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

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Vesper
2022 · dir. Kristina Buožytė
🍅 91%6science fiction · drama · adventure

Both lean on scale more than on drama

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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