Movies like O Castelo da Lúa
If O Castelo da Lúa's mix of homophobia, ostracism and short film stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what O Castelo da Lúa's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Endless Poetry
2016 · Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky · 128 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic…
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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs.
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XXY
2007 · Directed by Lucía Puenzo · 86 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head.
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The Swan
2023 · Directed by Wes Anderson · 17 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: short film · From the same decade (2020s)
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.
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The Human Voice
2020 · Directed by Pedro Almodóvar · 30 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: short film · From the same decade (2020s)
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.