15 Movies Like The Angel Was Born
Loved The Angel Was Born? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Angel Was Born.
Burning Betrayal
Babi discovers a betrayal by her long-term partner and decides to embark on a new adventure in life. On this journey, she meets judge Marco and they begin to live a story permeated by a lot of sexual tension.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
City of God
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
New Dubai
In a middle-class neighbourhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
Caramelo
After a life-changing diagnosis, a promising chef finds hope and humor with the help of a fur-midable dog friend.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
Giselle
Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her father's stepson, and with the farm housekeeper. She and some friends are also raped by some bad guys. But they all celebrate the ruin of traditional family values.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
The Secret Agent
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
Love Strange Love
A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This time he is not fighting for a title, he is fighting for his life!
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Angel Was Born.
A Dog's Will
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's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
State of Fear
As São Paulo erupts in an unprecedented wave of violence, a lawyer with underworld ties must strike a deal with the police to rescue her kidnapped niece.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
The Dutchman
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman he encounters on a New York subway.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
Death Wish
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Angel Was Born.
Old Bandits
An elderly retired couple teams up with young partners to plan a daring bank robbery, while trying to outwit a detective determined to stop them.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.
Elite Squad
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Angel Was Born.