Movies Like Marighella (2021)

Marighella is a 2021 action, drama, history film from Wagner Moura with a MovieMagicScore of 7.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with I'm Still Here and Four Days in September.

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I'm Still Here

2024

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

8.0

MagicScore

Four Days in September

1997

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.

7.5

MagicScore

Olga

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.

7.1

MagicScore

Twenty Years Later

1984

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

8.4

MagicScore

Tattoo

2013

Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.

7.5

MagicScore

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

2006

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

7.2

MagicScore

Iruvar

1997

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.

7.4

MagicScore

1987: When the Day Comes

2017

In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.

8.1

MagicScore

I Fratelli De Filippo

2021

The story of the De Filippo brothers, children of Eduardo Scarpetta.

7.2

MagicScore

#10

Emily

2022

The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.

6.9

MagicScore

#11

Goya's Ghosts

2006

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

6.6

MagicScore

#12

The Official Story

1985

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

7.4

MagicScore

#13

Colonia

2015

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

7.3

MagicScore

#14

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

2013

“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.

7.2

MagicScore

#15

All Is True

2018

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

6.0

MagicScore

#16

The Clan

2015

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

6.8

MagicScore

#17

Days of '36

1972

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

6.3

MagicScore

#18

Túnel de los huesos

2011

Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free and once out, he pays his debt to "the tunnel of bones,"sharing their macabre story with a local journalist, and ultimately the world.

5.9

MagicScore

#19

Caged Women

1980

A bunch of delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band together to try to overthrow Carla and escape the island.

5.5

MagicScore

#20

Keylor Navas, Hombre de Fe

2017

The story of real life Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas, from his humble beginnings in his home town to his rise to greatness as an elite soccer player.

8.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Marighella?

The top films similar to Marighella by MovieMagicScore are I'm Still Here (8.0), Four Days in September (7.5), Olga (7.1). Each shares action/drama/history themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Marighella worth watching?

Marighella holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.6/10 from 129 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Marighella?

Marighella (2021) is a action, drama, history film directed by Wagner Moura, starring Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos.

Where can I find more recommendations like Marighella?

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About movies like Marighella

This ranked list pairs Marighella (2021), a action and drama and history film from Wagner Moura, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Seu Jorge take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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