Movies Like Please, ̶D̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ Stay
If you liked Please, ̶D̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ Stay (2025), a drama movie directed by Frederico Loyola and Pedro Lucas, 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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Loveling (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaOn the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
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Mars One (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their…
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The Dreamseller (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living.
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I'm Still Here (2024)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaA woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
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Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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Manas (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaThirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate…
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Back to Black (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s…
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Hot Milk (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaRose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a…
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Safe (1995)
★ 7/10Also dramaCarol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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The Emerald Forest (1985)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaFor ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who…
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Vitalina Varela (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
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Doubt (2008)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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Small Things Like These (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaIn 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit…
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White Oleander (2002)
★ 7/10Also dramaA teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Nowhere Special (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaJohn, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he…
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My Neighbor Adolf (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaSouth America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim…
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaKhaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted…
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The House on Carroll Street (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…
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Long Way Home (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaIn order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she…