Top 20 movies like Machuca

Machuca

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

Machuca is of 1 hour(s) and 56 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Ibermedia, Tornasol Films, Canal+ España, TVE, Invercine&Wood. It was released on 2004-02-24. It has the tagline: Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile. It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. Hunting Season (Temporada de caza)

Hunting Season

La Patagonia, southern Argentina. After his mother's death, Nahuel, a violent teenager, meets his biological father, Ernesto, a skillful hunting guide; but their reunion is harsh, since their souls are only ruled by pride and resentment.

It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.

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2. The Children of Fierro (Los hijos de Fierro)

The Children of Fierro

Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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3. Magicians

Magicians

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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4. The Car (El Carro)

The Car

When the Velezes agree to buy a used Chevrolet Bel-Air from their neighbors, who've recently won a brand-new car in a school raffle, they're thrilled about the prospect of leaving Bogotá's public transportation system behind. Little do they know that, despite its glossy red exterior, their newfound status symbol is a real lemon. Colombian director Luis Orjuela helms this hilarious look at the pitfalls of automobile ownership.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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5. Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se fue a los cielos)

Violeta Went to Heaven

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.

It has an average vote of 6.83 on TMDB.

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6. Rat Fever (Febre do Rato)

Rat Fever

Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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7. Tony Manero (Tony Manero)

Tony Manero

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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8. A Place in the World (Un lugar en el mundo)

A Place in the World

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

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9. Red Like the Sky (Rosso come il cielo)

Red Like the Sky

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.

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10. La Ciénaga (La Ciénaga)

La Ciénaga

The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.

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11. Gaspard at the Wedding (Gaspard va au mariage)

Gaspard at the Wedding

After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must renew contact with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he finally feels ready to set foot in the zoo owned by his parents, where he is reunited with the monkeys and tigers he grew up with... But with a father who is an out-of-control womanizer, a brother who is far too sensible, and a sister who is far too beautiful, he unknowingly sets himself up to experience the last days of his childhood.

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12. Deep Blue Sea 3

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Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks.

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13. Cria! (Cría cuervos)

Cria!

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.

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14. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”

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15. Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (Pantaleón y las visitadoras)

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services

The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.

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16. Racing Stripes

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Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.

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17. Maudie

Maudie

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

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18. Nine Queens (Nueve reinas)

Nine Queens

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps .

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19. Unlocked (스마트폰을 떨어뜨렸을 뿐인데)

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A woman's life is turned upside-down when a dangerous man gets a hold of her lost cell phone and uses it to track her every move.

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20. Talk to Her (Hable con ella)

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Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

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