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Movies that feel like The Edge of Democracy (2019)

If you loved The Edge of Democracy, the closest films we have are Treeless Mountain (2009), Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme (2013) and Vesper (2022). 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Shudder and Fandor and others, checked against today's data.

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Petra Costa
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Treeless Mountain
2009 · dir. So Yong Kim
🍅 86%7drama

Contemporaries, and it shows

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Edge of Democracy does

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

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
5.8comedy

Same era, same wavelength

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than The Edge of Democracy does

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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

Products of the same few years

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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The Dog
2013 · dir. François Keraudren
🍅 93%6.7documentary

Both are documentary through and through

In 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation. The story was the basis for the film Dog Day Afternoon. The Dog captures John, who shares his story for the first time in his own unique, offensive, hilarious and heartbreaking way. We gain a historic perspective on New York's gay liberation movement, in which Wojtowicz played an active role. In later footage, he remains a subversive force, backed by the unconditional love of his mother Terry, whose wit and charm infuse the film. How and why the bank robbery took place is recounted in gripping detail by Wojtowicz and various eyewitnesses.

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We Live in Public
2009 · dir. Ondi Timoner
🍅 80%7.1documentary

Documentary approached the same way

In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time while their every movement is broadcast online. Soon, Harris and his girlfriend embark on their own subterranean adventure, with cameras streaming live footage of their meals, arguments, bedroom activities, and bathroom habits. This documentary explores the role of technology in our lives, as it charts the fragile nature of dot-com economy.

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Return
2011 · dir. Liza Johnson
🍅 83%6.1drama

Same instincts, 8 years apart

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

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Nuts!
2016 · dir. Penny Lane
🍅 94%7.1documentary · animation

Documentary in the same key

The true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a small-town Kansas doctor who discovers in 1917 that he can cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. And that’s just the tipping point in this stranger-than-fiction tale. With the balls of a P.T. Barnum, the gonads of goats, and the wishful dreams of flaccid men, Brinkley amassed a fortune, was almost elected Governor of Kansas, invented junk mail and the infomercial, and built the world’s most powerful radio station. By the time all of the twists and turns of Brinkley’s story are revealed, Nuts! certainly earns its title.

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Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop
2004 · dir. Walter Carvalho
6.9drama · music · history

A 2000s answer to the same itch

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.

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Innocence
2005 · dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović
🍅 71%6.8drama · mystery

Same instincts, 14 years apart

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

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🍅 60%7.7documentary · history

Cut from the same documentary cloth

In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.

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Little Joe
2019 · dir. Jessica Hausner
🍅 66%5.8drama · science fiction

Different title, same corner of the shelf

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

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Aniara
2019 · dir. Pella Kågerman
🍅 70%6.3science fiction · drama

A 2010s answer to the same itch

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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