Favela movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant favela movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, serious, suspense, disturbing and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with favela, slum, society, flashback, murder, beach, violence, drug, female nudity and gun plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in Brazil, USA, France and other countries.
favela
TOP 10 movies tagged as favela: Impure (2018), Trash (2014), City of God (2002), City of Men (2007), Sintonia (2019), Elite Squad (2007), Last Stop 174 (2008), Renegaded Archangel (2020), Dom (2021), Candy or Mint (1990).
Best films
New films
Streets of Rio (2007) | 5.2 | |
Fast X (2023) | 5.8 | |
Gabriela (2012) | 8.0 | |
Elite Squad (2007) | 8.0 | |
Line Walker (2016) | 6.0 |
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827
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Rio de Janeiro, during the 90's. Evandro dreams about becoming a great businessman, but ends up entering the world of crime and making an empire out of his criminal organization. His business skills and leadership abilities draw the attention ...
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
favela, police investigation, organized crime, drug, criminal gang, uninhibited rivalry, drug dealer, drug lord, fighting crime, criminal, criminal underworld, police officer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rio de janeiro, bolivia, latin america, paraguay
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23K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Style:
captivating, road movie, touching, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, children, slum, mischievous children, friends, coming of age, young heroes, corruption, favela, teenager, youth, police corruption ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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796K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time:
2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Told through three different characters' perspectives, the story of Sintonia explores the interconnection of the music, drug traffic, and religion in São Paulo. In the quest to be somebody, many paths will converge.
Style:
ironic, entertaining, realistic, emotional
Plot:
favela, underage drinking, teenage rebellion, ordinary person, girlfriend, drinking problem, sibling rivalry, youth, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, alcohol abuse, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil, brazil
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110K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of June 12th 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
breast feeding, hijacking, street kid, drug abuse, life is a bitch, confined, juvenile delinquency, youth, danger, favela, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human ...
Style:
political, realistic, unusual plot structure, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, politics, gangster, police corruption, favela, political corruption, gunfight, poverty, swat team, police investigation, justice, criminal ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
Mikhael is a sergeant in charge of BOPE, always on dangerous missions in Rio de Janeiro. But after getting involved in a controversial operation that culminated to a slaughter, he is transferred to a police unit at the state countryside.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
favela, police, murder, male protagonist, flashback, demotion, choice, police sergeant, special agent, wartime life, small village, killings ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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3K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A father who never stopped fighting against drugs. A son who never stopped using them. Two sides of the same coin. Victor is a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
war on drugs, sex, drug cartel, favela, criminal, drug traffic, drug, father son relationship, cocaine, father son estrangement, relationship problems, estranged father ...
Time:
70s, 90s
Place:
rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime ...
Plot:
drug, youth, breaking and entering, yuppie, police arrest, ghetto, drug deal, delinquent, favela, drug dealer, police brutality, urban decay ...
Place:
santiago chile, chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage sex, coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, poverty, teenage pregnancy, criminality, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Plot:
ghetto, soccer, murder, dying and death, favela, new love, slum, organized crime, teacher, death, football, child murder ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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273
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
carnival, drug lord, slum, voodoo, illegal drugs, nudity, children, nude dance, crime boss, lust, child murder, charisma ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover.
Style:
experimental
Plot:
female nudity, singing, favela, slum, toilet
Place:
brazil
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405K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de ...
Style:
exciting, action packed, suspense, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, manly, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, chase, car race, car, on the run, racing, organized crime, street racing, tough heroes, freedom, classic car ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, iran, latin america, south america, rio de janeiro ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Is this possible to reconcile individual happiness and social justice? It is the paradoxical search several foreigners installed in Brazil. Charlotte Rampling incarnates a British esthetic surgeon given to dissuade whoever would like to pass under ...
Style:
sex comedy, semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
tour guide, lifestyle, love affair, couples, love and romance, battle of the sexes, couple relations, society, culture clash, social differences, city life, plastic surgeon ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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420
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teacher takes a student to his house in the slum, but on arrival discovered that drug traffickers killed his parents and now are at your demand.
Plot:
children, slum, girl, education, feminism, organized crime, teacher, police, murder, witness, violence, female protagonist ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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556
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Finland, Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences ...
Style:
semi serious, independent film
Plot:
environmental, tribe, rain forest, heist, love affair, culture clash, destiny, society, adventurer, survival, danger, escapades ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, finland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
5 teachers deal with terrible conditions in public schools but renew everyday their faith on the work they do.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
school, teacher, teachers and students, fighting the system, high school life, teacher student relationship, workplace situations, social problems, school teacher, coworker, workplace, lgbtq ...
Place:
sao paulo brazil, brazil
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The details of undercover police officers are deleted from a police database and a senior officer is left struggling to know who are the undercover officers and who are the criminals.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, crime drama
Plot:
undercover cop, police investigation, undercover, criminal syndicate, drug deal, car chase, gunfight, drug kingpin, bodyguard, skyscraper, brotherhood, cat and mouse ...
Place:
china, rio de janeiro
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21K
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa ...
Style:
realistic, talky, melancholic, stylized, allegory ...
Plot:
real estate, horny, family drama, fighting the system, character study, manipulation, female protagonist, nostalgia, apartment building, class differences, capitalism, cancer ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 1980
Place:
northeast brazil, brazil
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291
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, captivating, novela ...
Plot:
seductress, love affair, couple relations, couples, fall in love, social differences, society, love and romance, rivalry, rich and poor, social relations, plantation ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After 30 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling that for which he was imprisoned: find the woman who can give him the perfect child. During his wanderings ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, rough, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, gory, danger, vengeance, supernatural, obsession, violence against women, disorder, kidnapping, obsessive quest, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The movie tells the story of Laerte (Lázaro Ramos), a talented violinist who after failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school at Heliopolis. His path is full of difficulties, but ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, touching, suspense ...
Plot:
music teacher, teacher, police, teenager, death, police chase, chase, political persecution, homeless, poverty, classical music, credit card ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A young man falls for a seductive, confident woman who performs as a mermaid, and actually believes to be one.
Style:
novela, soap opera, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
professional wrestling, police, police officer, female antagonist, female fighter, criminal, female protagonist, strong female lead, ambition, direction and purpose, ambitious woman, multiple storylines ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.
Style:
romantic, captivating, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rich man poor woman, co worker co worker relationship, romantic relationship, lie, love, countryside, father son relationship, friendship, farm, love and romance, love affair, love story ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
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116K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Plot:
car, revenge, carsploitation, elevator, fast car, car chase, fight, driving lesson, good versus evil, punched in the face, home invasion, shootout ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
rome italy, naples italy, rio de janeiro, brazil, london ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face ...
Style:
exciting, gloomy, serious, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
superhero, transformation, mutant, superhuman powers, hulk, scientist, chase, unstoppable, creature, experiment gone awry, split personality, giant ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, rio de janeiro, virginia, british columbia, brazil ...
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