Top 20 movies like Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

Flores Raras is of 1 hour(s) and 58 minute(s). It is Produced By:  TeleImage, LC Barreto, Imagem Filmes, Globo Filmes, Telecine. It was released on 2013-02-09. It has the tagline: Two iconic women. One passion. It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

Genres: DramaRomance

1. Daydream Believer

Daydream Believer

A struggling actress with an affinity for horses meets wealthy rock music promoter and stable owner Digby Olsen.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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2. Action Boys (우린 액션배우다)

Action Boys

Only eight out of 36 boys pass the rigorous training at Seoul Action School. They all have different dreams but all wish to become stuntmen. Despite frequent accidents and injuries, they never give up their dream, and the movie follows their hopeful desperation.

It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.

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3. Cloudburst

Cloudburst

When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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4. Elsa & Fred

Elsa & Fred

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Fred embraces Elsa's youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa's terminally ill, Fred decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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5. Heartburn

Heartburn

Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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6. Aimée & Jaguar (Aimée & Jaguar)

Aimée & Jaguar

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

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7. Mea Culpa (Mea Culpa)

Mea Culpa

Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.

It has an average vote of 6.341 on TMDB.

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8. Elena Undone

Elena Undone

The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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9. The Firefly (La luciérnaga)

The Firefly

After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.

It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.

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10. If I Were You 2 (Se Eu Fosse Você 2)

If I Were You 2

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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11. The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho)

The Way He Looks

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.

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12. Timbuktu (Timbuktu)

Timbuktu

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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13. Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his new egg-sitting service. However, dastardly pirate bunny, Squint, who is seeking revenge on the herd, steals, camouflages and hides all the eggs. Once again, with Squint’s twin brother assisting, Manny, Diego and the rest of the gang come to the rescue and take off on a daring mission that turns into the world’s first Easter egg hunt.

It has an average vote of 6.373 on TMDB.

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14. The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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15. Freeheld

Freeheld

New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

It has an average vote of 7.258 on TMDB.

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16. Disconnect

Disconnect

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

It has an average vote of 7.041 on TMDB.

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17. Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever

An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

It has an average vote of 6.526 on TMDB.

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18. Blow-Up

Blow-Up

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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19. Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas)

Parallel Mothers

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

It has an average vote of 6.835 on TMDB.

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20. Lady Vengeance (친절한 금자씨)

Lady Vengeance

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

It has an average vote of 7.547 on TMDB.

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