Movies and TV shows set in northeast brazil

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in northeast brazil ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, suspense, sincere, realistic, humorous and psychological films and TV shows about / with male nudity, sex scene, pubic hair, female nudity, male pubic hair, friendship, bare chested male, life is a bitch, society and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Western genres shot in Brazil, USA, Portugal and other countries.
northeast brazil
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northeast brazil movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as northeast brazil: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976), Neon Bull (2015), White Dunes (1998), Captains of the Sands (2011), Siren's Song (2013), Aquarius (2016), Above Justice (2016), The Given Word (1962), Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005), Me You Them (2000).

List of movies set in northeast brazil

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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day ...
Style: erotic, sexy, manga, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: ghost, public nudity, female nudity, love triangle, gambling, magic realism, porn, amor, life after death, erotica, sexism, sex ...
Time: year 1976
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
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 6.8
 3K
Neon Bull (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Iremar is part of a rodeo troupe that tours the Brazilian northeast. His task is to send bulls into the arena. Intensely exciting physical scenes alternate with contemplative episodes that sketch a painterly portrait of the members of the troupe. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sensual, eros ...
Plot: rodeo, mannequin, rags to riches, changing lives, ambition, fashion, lifestyle change, rodeo cowboy, minimalism, lgbt, gay, social realism ...
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
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 4.0
 500
White Dunes (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals ...
Style: erotic, romantic drama, independent film
Plot: making love, sex scene, older woman younger man sex, female nudity, sex, male full rear nudity, cuckold, adultery, trophy wife, jealousy, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
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Captains of the Sands (2011)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 96 min.
Story: About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.
Style: psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, light, independent film
Plot: poverty, homeless teenager, teenage boy, orphan, homelessness, street urchin, boy, infection, young boy, outcast, death, gang ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
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 7.8
 201
Siren's Song (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The mystery surrounding the murder of a seductive and ambitious axé performer during one of her concerts.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense ...
Plot: death, murder, mystery killer, lesbian romance, murder investigation, bisexual woman, singer, partner, nude, police officer, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northeast brazil, brazil
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 7.4
 21K
Aquarius (2016)
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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 9.0
 731
Above Justice (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Four ordinary people under arrest in one single night in different stories of crime, justice and revenge that will intertwine and forever haunt the lives of those involved.
Style: bleak, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: justice, revenge, murder, infidelity, sex scene, female nudity, cheating girlfriend, life, life is a bitch, vigilantism, prison
Place: northeast brazil
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The Given Word (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Zé is a very poor man from the Brazilian countryside. His most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way ...
Style: anthropological, spiritual, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: religion, priest, catholic, catholic church, spirit, journalism, spirituality, prostitution, church, simple man, class struggle, once promising ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, starting over, friendship, wartime life, society, life is a bitch, human nature, escapades, totalitarianism, political unrest, magic realism, cinema ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, germany, latin america, europe
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 7.0
 2K
Me You Them (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Style: melancholic, road movie, stylized, talky, light ...
Plot: adultery, runaway, love affair, dishonesty, dominant woman, couples, fall in love, bittersweet, farm, polyamory, sex, poverty ...
Time: 90s
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
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 5.8
 211
Time Hustler (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After being hit in the head, a man wakes up in 1927 to discover that he’s the spitting image of a famous bandit — and decides to make the most of it.
Style: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good
Plot: time travel, love, gang, time traveler, time jump, pretense, gang leader, changing lives, bandit, criminal, criminal gang, time paradox ...
Time: 70s
Place: northeast brazil
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 7.6
 357
The Seamstress (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 160 min.
Story: In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbtqi, lgbtq, female nudity, gay, sex scene, suffering, lgbt, loneliness, sister sister relationship, skinny dipping, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: northeast brazil
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 4.5
 512
Area Q. (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A year after the disappearance of his son, Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist, still has no information and begins his own obsessive search. However, the obsession has him losing his house and job so his boss sends him on special assignment ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: alien encounter, obsession, journalism, missing child, danger, life turned upside down, uncover truth, alien abduction, spacecraft, evil alien, extraterrestrial, unusual phenomena ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
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Land of the Strong (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: When an adventurous young man goes missing after a fight, his mother Cassia and his twin sister Maria begin a dangerous journey in search of answers in a town where brute force overcomes the law.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: kidnapping, family relations, uncover truth, relationships, cold case, mysterious disappearance, kidnapped, crime solving, female protagonist, family secret, crime investigation, investigation ...
Place: northeast brazil
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 5.0
 1K
Santo (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Two cops must learn to work together to catch the world's most-wanted drug dealer, whose face has never been revealed.
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: police, drug dealer, criminal, crime solving, police investigation, uncover truth, fighting crime, crime investigation, organized crime, sleuth, drug dealing, drug ...
Place: spain, brazil, northeast brazil, madrid
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Gonzaga: From Father to Son (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's ...
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: singer, father son relationship, life, rising to stardom, musician's life, music, lifestyle, longing, historical figure, direction and purpose, price of fame, musician ...
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
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Private Desert (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently ...
Style: psychological, touching, talky, sexy, romantic ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, police officer, male nudity, gay club, love, obsession, gay lead character, sex scene, road trip, lgbt, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northeast brazil
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 56K
Marighella (2019)
Genre: Action, 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 ...
Plot: dictatorship, dictator, brazilian military dictatorship, escape, journalism, violent, male pubic hair, racial issues, fascism, male nudity, military dictatorship, torture ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, sao paulo brazil
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 7.2
 3K
Dom (2021)
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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 6.0
 2K
Get the Goat (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bruceuilis, a policeman from the countryside, is assigned to rescue Celestina, a goat considered heritage of his small city, and travels to São Paulo. There, he meets police clerk Trindade, who decides to venture out into the field, even though it ...
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, feel good, light
Plot: criminal, goat, investigation, police detective, police officer, teamwork, fighting crime, silly humor, escapades, police, friendship, city life ...
Place: sao paulo brazil, northeast brazil
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 2K
Oh My God! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor and music.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic
Plot: optimism, social differences, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, friendship, racism, partner, social relations, friends, culture clash, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, brazil, northeast brazil
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 3K
Futuro Beach (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, meditative ...
Plot: gay, drowning, lifeguard, gay love, gender, gay sex, male nudity, brother brother relationship, beach, swimming, oral sex, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, berlin germany, germany, portugal, northeast brazil
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The Cannibal Club (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Baking in the sun with a cocktail, a splash in the pool and the occasional chunk of human flesh. The stinking-rich Gilda and Octavio have a gruesome and kooky hobby. The Cannibal Club is a delightful dark-comic blow-up of the Brazilian super-rich ...
Style: suspense, rough, bleak, humorous, neo noir ...
Plot: cannibal, serial rapist, secret society, female rapist, secret, husband wife relationship, murder, criminal, sadism, violence, employer employee relationship, trap ...
Place: northeast brazil
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 6.0
 3K
The Killer (2017)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.
Style: brutal, suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: wilderness, violence spree, lone hero, shooting, tough guy, hitman, righteous rage, one man army, gunfight, vigilante, danger, violence ...
Time: 1940s
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 30K
Bacurau (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Style: suspense, sincere, disturbing, serious, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, village, funeral, manhunt, resistance, drone, murder, flying saucer, life is a bitch, distopia, lgbt, women ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, near future
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
Is relevant ?
 8.6
 17K
A Dog's Will (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. But when they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary, before they are ...
Style: talky, semi serious, humorous, exciting, light ...
Plot: priest, religion, poverty, hopes, clergy, race against time, social differences, unfulfilled love, buddies, society, odd couple, righting the wronged ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: brazil, latin america, south america, northeast brazil
Is relevant ?
 4.1
 1K
Carnaval (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a breakup, an influencer takes her friends on a free trip to Bahia's vibrant Carnival, where she learns life's not just about social media likes.
Style: entertaining, feel good, funny, light, captivating ...
Plot: carnival, travel, friend, friends, lifestyle change, friendship, life philosophy, humour, escapades, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle ...
Place: northeast brazil
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