Movies Like Luminárias

If you liked Luminárias (2023), a adventure and fantasy movie directed by João Gilberto Lara and Evandro Caixeta, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Seized (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and adventure
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to…
2
Stolen Girl (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and adventure
In 1993, Maureen’s six-year-old daughter Amina is snuck out of the country by her ex-husband, Karim. After years of unsuccessful attempts to find her, Maureen intersects with a professional retriever of internationally…
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and thriller
A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
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The 355 (2022)
★ 6/10Also adventure and thriller
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
★ 6/10Also adventure and thriller
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or…
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Gold (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and thriller
In the not-too-distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their…
7
The Water Man (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and fantasy
Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's…
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The Unhealer (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and thriller
A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to…
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Interceptor (2022)
★ 6/10Also thriller and adventure
A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.
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The Rundown (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and thriller
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman…
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Limbo (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and thriller
Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo…
12
River Wild (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and adventure
Follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than he appears.
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Macunaima (1969)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasy and adventure
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something…
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and thriller
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data…
15
Jungle (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and thriller
In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest…
16
Dave Made a Maze (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and fantasy
Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of…
17
Dark Harvest (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and thriller
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
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Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also thriller and fantasy
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code: Wedlocked (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and fantasy
Wenches Scarlett and Giselle fix each other up for their wedding, in which they would each marry their groom. Upon realizing that both their grooms were the same man, Jack Sparrow, the two wenches found themselves in…
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Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and fantasy
Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.