Brazilian politics movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant brazilian politics movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, suspense, political thriller, serious, political drama and psychological films and TV shows about / with brazilian politics, politics, corruption, female nudity, social commentary, brazilian history, male nudity, biopic, dictatorship and political intrigue plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres shot in Brazil, France, Netherlands and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as brazilian politics: Passport to Freedom (2021), The Mechanism (2018), Mars One (2022), The Mayor's Wife (2013), End of the Line (2008), Scars (2006), Zuzu Angel (2006), Marighella (2019), Elis (2016), The Secret Agent (2025).
List of brazilian politics movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate. For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded "J" stamp, which not only won't allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors ...
Style:
suspense, sincere, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
jew persecution, brazilian history, diplomat, life risking, co worker co worker relationship, couple relations, relationship vs career, male female relationship, saving a life, immigration, workplace, female protagonist ...
Place:
brazil, hamburg germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A scandal erupts in Brazil during an investigation of alleged government corruption via oil and construction companies. Loosely inspired by true events.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense, political ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
border, businessman, brazilian politics, corruption, investigation, dishonesty, society, rivalry, good versus evil, danger, plea bargain, subterfuge ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil, south america, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of ...
Style:
reflective, complex, loving
Plot:
soccer, brazilian politics, lesbian, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, family crisis, youth, football, alcoholism, family conflict, black lgbt, family drama ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
In a good-natured critique of the Brazilian political landscape, the series tells the story of Aurora, the wife of Mayor Reinaldo Rangel, the all-powerful leader of the tiny city of Pitanguá, in which she is forced to assume the leadership of city ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, semi serious, political, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, political satire, satire, brazilian politics, female protagonist, problem, social problems, corrupt official, politics, political intrigue, corrupt politician, political corruption ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Humorous, satirical and cleverly constructed début by Steinberg slowly but surely knots together seven stories from everyday Brazilian life. It all comes down to money, money, money: from the Indians who want to be paid for their rain dance to the ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, black comedy
Plot:
politician, social commentary, satire, corruption, money, politics, journalism, political satire, social satire, lottery, greed, city ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
Antônio Maciel (Gabriel Braga Nunes) has many objectives. One life only might not be enough for him to make all his dreams come true. That's why he lives each moment intensely fighting against every difficulty he faces. He is a simple ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, ambition, character study, coping, lifestyle change, deception, farmer, changing lives, life is a bitch, con man, moral ambiguity, rise and fall ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"Zuzu Angel" covers the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice in the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, absurd ...
Plot:
missing person, uncover truth, fighting the system, injustice, life is a bitch, politics, legal, society, rebellion, parents and children, political unrest, price of justice ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the ...
Style:
political thriller
Plot:
military dictatorship, brazilian military dictatorship, dictatorship, dictator, torture, male nudity, male pubic hair, brazilian politics, fascism, racial issues, escape, journalism ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil, northeast brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the energetic and pulsating singer Elis Regina since her arrival in Rio de Janeiro at age 19 until her tragic and early death. Despite all the difficulties, success comes fulminant and the life of Elis Regina gained ...
Style:
tragic ending, dramatic, intense, emotional, period drama
Plot:
biopic, singer, career, legacy, celebrity, tragedy, female protagonist, cultural icon, music industry, tribute, showbiz, addiction ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
rio de janeiro
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil’s repressive military regime.
Style:
political thriller, non-linear, period drama
Plot:
male nudity, gas station, projectionist, corruption, hitman, underground movement, resistance movement, public nudity, dead body, teenage boy, carnival, shark ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 70s, 2020s
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated ...
Style:
dramatic, absurd, psychological horror, earnest
Plot:
lgbt, angry, religion, evangelist, disfigured face, evangelical christianity, feminism, brazilian politics, lesbian, dancing, coma, male nudity ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In May 1993, Brazil experienced one of the worst economic crises in its history. The government then decides to set up a real task force to solve the problem. Confined to a bunker as a way of shielding the operations of growing political pressures, ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, period piece, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
government, inflation, economic crisis, behind the scenes, realism, negotiation, teamwork, bureaucracy, civil unrest, bunker, confined, latinos ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis.
Style:
suspenseful, political thriller, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage situation, airplane hijack, hostage negotiator, hijacking, politics, aviation, terrorist attack, terrorist, capture, economic crisis, political unrest ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
João Ernesto Ribamar is a corrupt politician running for the presidency. He is in the runoff election, ahead on the polls, when he receives a "mandinga" (curse) from his grandmother, which makes him unable to lie. Now the problem begins: ...
Style:
satirical, sitcom, situational comedy, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, honesty, satire, corrupt politician, election, politics, corruption, moral dilemma, social commentary, conscience, media manipulation, magic realism ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Brazilian politician João Ernesto surrenders to justice and is arrested for corruption, before attempting to overturn with sincerity and real proposals.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, funny, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, corruption, satire, politician, social commentary, election campaign, politics, humour, political corruption, corrupt politician, irony, government corruption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot:
favela, criminal organization, murder, prison, rebellion, organized crime, political prisoner, prison escape, unfaithful wife, bank robbery, assault, danger ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, ...
Style:
stylized, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
politics, investigation, head of state, downfall, life is a bitch, political conspiracy, assassination attempt, state affairs, journalism, dishonesty, political unrest, society ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he ...
Style:
erotic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, boy, mother son relationship, coming of age, male nudity, sexual curiosity, sex with a minor, older woman teenage boy sex, puberty, corrupt politician, sex with mother ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937, year 1982, 70s
Place:
brazil
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