Movies and TV shows set in rio de janeiro
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in rio de janeiro ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, touching, humorous and entertaining films and TV shows about / with friendship, family relations, society, beach, female nudity, dancing, love, male nudity, life is a bitch and favela plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in Brazil, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rio de janeiro: Stolen Dreams (2009), The Middle of the World (2003), City of Men (2007), Trash (2014), Blame It on Rio (1984), Girl from Rio (2001), Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008), City of God (2002), Renegaded Archangel (2020), Wild Orchid (1989).
Best films
New films
| Eternals (2021) | 6.2 | |
| Intervenção (2021) | 6.3 | |
| Dom (2021) | 7.3 | |
| Invisible City (2021) | 7.2 | |
| I'm Still Here (2024) | 8.1 |
List of movies set in rio de janeiro
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:
pedophile, teenage sex, coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, poverty, teenage pregnancy, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story ...
Style:
road movie, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
virgin mary, youth, on the road, family relations, hopes, unemployment, injustice, family problems, life is a bitch, working class, teenage life, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
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, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, favela, slum, coming of age, betrayal, brutality, relationships, drug lord, society, gang war, best friend ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
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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:
road movie, touching, sentimental, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, children, slum, favela, mischievous children, young heroes, coming of age, friends, corruption, child in peril, teenager, youth ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, south america
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Matthew Hollis is man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Matthew falls for his best friend's amorous daughter named Jennifer, they embark on a secret, if slightly one-sided relationship. ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, sweet, suspense, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
teenage girl, older man younger woman relationship, seduction, sex, sexual attraction, bare breasts, skinny dipping, outdoor sex, female nudity, forbidden sex, sexual awakening, summer vacation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america, south america, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, comedy of errors, samba, bank robber, obsessive quest, unlikely criminals, disorder, couples, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, obsession, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, london, england, latin america ...
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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:
forbidden love, love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
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:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
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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, suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
gay, favela, police, male protagonist, murder, flashback, choice, demotion, police sergeant, special agent, wartime life, ex military ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
erotica, sex scene, sexual pleasure, forbidden love, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, strong sexual content, voyeurism, lust, passion, femme fatale, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
Style:
realistic, serious, social, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
love triangle, friends, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, friendship, hopes, intern, family relations, love, rivalry, polyamory ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Meet Paulo Mandrake, a charismatic defense attorney who finds himself sidetracked by his vices--especially beautiful Brazilian women--while serving as a liaison between his high-end clients and the Rio de Janeiro subculture. Marcos Palmeira stars in ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, humorous
Plot:
lawyer, one night stand, womanizer, legal investigation, courtroom drama, society, legal, counterculture, lawyers and clients, courtroom, blackmail, dating ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a ...
Style:
humorous, touching, entertaining, 3d animation, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
bird, parrot, kids and family, jungle, friendship, happy ending, good versus evil, fantasy world, childhood, animal life, talking animal, animal ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, minnesota, brazil, south america, iran ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bossa Nova is a romantic comedy that enfolds many love convergences and divergences, in today’s Rio de Janeiro. It’s in the city’s “useless landscape” that the lonely hearts of nine characters will cross destinies and they’ll discover ...
Style:
touching, romantic, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teacher, creativity, life philosophy, looking for love, beautiful scenery, starting over, couple relations, destiny, dancing, fall in love, in love, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, argentina, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. The life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation.
Style:
erotic, visually stunning, psychological, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
sister sister relationship, sex scene, missing sister, sailor, female protagonist, unwanted pregnancy, family relations, erotica, sisters, masturbation, wedding, sexism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2019, 1940s
Place:
rio de janeiro, iberian peninsula, south america, brazil
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, USA, Colombia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The film narrates the love between Janaina and a native warrior who, when dying, takes the form of a bird. For six centuries, the story of the couple survives through four stages in the history of Brazil: 1500, when the country was discovered by the ...
Style:
adult animation, captivating, touching, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
true love, impossible love, heroes, state affairs, supernatural, escapades, political unrest, life is a bitch, master warrior, rape, reincarnation, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 1968, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot ...
Style:
art house, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
family drama, matriarchy, character study, slice of life, gender roles, satire, middle class, nostalgia, family relations, family
Time:
1950s
Place:
rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
class differences, teenage life, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, social differences, power relations, social relations, society, unfulfillment, family life, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
"The Cariocas", a series in ten stand-alone episodes, tells the story of ten modern-day women against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and its stunning urban landscapes. Our protagonists are uninhibited, adulterous, vindictive, ...
Style:
anthology, novela, semi serious, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sexual attraction, city life, multiple storylines, lifestyle, women, slice of life, everyday life, satire, seductress, sorority, society, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro
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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, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
sex, favela, drug cartel, war on drugs, drug, father son relationship, criminal, drug traffic, cocaine, father son estrangement, relationship problems, estranged father ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, brazil
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, emotional, tragic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
singer, biopic, music, drug, musician's life, life story, historical figure, historical character, social problems, lifestyle, musician, celebrity ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
An eccentric family from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, earns their living from the deaths of others: they own a funeral home.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sitcom, captivating, light ...
Plot:
family business, eccentric family, couples, family relations, couple relations, social relations, suburbs, funeral home, funeral, friendship, love, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, psychological, erotic ...
Plot:
self discovery, starting over, breakup, family problems, couples, couple relations, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, minimalism, suspicion, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Living with her family since the pandemic struck, the meddling Isadir does her best to disrupt the lives of her bumbling son and rival daughter-in-law.
Style:
sitcom, family comedy, exciting, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
daughter, house, families, life, friend, family relations, mother in law, woman, female protagonist, women, everyday life, family drama ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, 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, intense, serious, realistic, social ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug traffic, favela, squad, drug lord, leader, slum, police, fighting crime, police brutality, law enforcement, torture ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, berlin germany
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, police, investigation, abduction, police investigation, crime investigation, corruption, police corruption, attempted kidnapping, uncover truth, forensics, crime solving ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mina (Priscila Fantin) is arrested for defrauding the Social Security and beyond to defend the other inmates need to escape from the prison director of surveillance (Tuca Andrada). The crime involved a Senator (Antonio Calloni), trying in every way ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
prison, rivalry, prison life, criminal heroes, strong female presence, corruption, psychological torture, women in prison, power struggle, female protagonist, manipulation, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, couple relations, love and romance, friendship, love affair, city life, culture clash, meaning of life, women, lgbt, atheist, motivation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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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:
captivating, romantic, funny, entertaining, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
romantic relationship, rich man poor woman, in love, co worker co worker relationship, relationships, farm, lie, love, countryside, father son relationship, friendship, love and romance ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Matteo is a Roman barber. In Roma his activity is driving him almost to ruin, he is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.
Style:
feel good, lighthearted, multicultural, romantic comedy, period piece ...
Plot:
barber, escape, fish out of water, hair salon, siblings, culture clash, optimism, travel, debt, second chance, slice of life, small business ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, rio de janeiro, brazil, italy
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