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Movies that feel like Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)

If you loved Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl, the closest films we have are Our Little Sister (2015), Carandiru (2003) and 3096 Days (2013). All three share Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

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.

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Our Little Sister
2015 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 93%7.6drama

Two things both keep coming back to: family relationships and a woman at the center

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

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Carandiru
2003 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 68%7.6drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sao paulo, brazil

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 one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
6.5drama

Common ground: a true story

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

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The Commune
2016 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 71%6.4drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.

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Broker
2022 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 94%7.1drama

Both are built on the same subject: family relationships

When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

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Summer Hours
2008 · dir. Olivier Assayas
🍅 94%7.1drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
7.1drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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Silenced
2011 · dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
🍅 100%8drama

One thread runs through both: a true story

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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Rams
2015 · dir. Grímur Hákonarson
🍅 95%7.2drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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Fidelity
2019 · dir. Nigina Sayfullaeva
5.7drama

Drama of the same temperament

A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.

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Manderlay
2005 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 50%7.2drama

Both are drama through and through

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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