Movies and TV shows set in brazil
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in brazil ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, sexy, atmospheric and psychological films and TV shows about / with female nudity, male nudity, nude, female full frontal nudity, nudity, pubic hair, family relations, friendship, youth and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres shot in Brazil, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as brazil: Conception (2005), The Salamander (2021), August Winds (2014), Bog of Beasts (2006), Love Strange Love (1982), Pixote (1980), Pacified (2019), City of God (2002), Long Way Home (2018), Lower City (2005).
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List of movies set in brazil
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last long.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, exciting ...
Plot:
sex scene, self discovery, lgbt, friends, buddies, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, student life, mistaken identity, anarchism, drug ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, art house, existential ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, female protagonist, self destructing, midlife crisis, obsession, woman, relationships, couple relations, couples, life, love affair, love interest ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, realism, social relations, village, village life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, care, relationships, minimalism, dealing with death, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, grandfather granddaughter relationship, sexual torture, coitus, voyeurism, strong sexual content, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, village life, poverty, female pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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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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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, child abuse, boy, sex with a minor, coming of age, 10 year old, child rape, children, nude boy, violent, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. As Brazilian Pacification Police battle to maintain a tenuous occupation of the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, prison, family drama, favela, coming of age, life is a bitch, family problems, relationship problems, ex convict, adolescence, teenage life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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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: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In 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 adapts to her new life, ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting, melancholic, dramatic
Plot:
working class, black, slum, friendship, control, hairdresser, loneliness, infidelity, female protagonist, slice of life, adaptation, resilience ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Best friends Deco (Lázaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador de Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna (Alice Braga), and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, ...
Style:
sexy, neo noir, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
stripper, prostitution, love triangle, friends, jealousy, prostitute, power relations, fall in love, rich and poor, polyamory, male female relationship, boxing ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on real events, and set in Rio de Janeiro, A Wolf at the Door is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
infidelity, mistress, missing child, destructive relationship, death of child, kidnapping, couples, family problems, dishonesty, extramarital affair, true crime, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
With her husband having lost his job, Helena opens her own grocery store, but is soon plagued by strange occurrences.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
unemployment, family problems, workplace, career change, store, power relations, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, suspicion, fired from the job, xmas, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, deep ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, starting over, haunted by the past, gender, breakup, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, depression, lgbtq, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
slum, fighting crime, working undercover, drug dealing, danger, undercover, race against time, urban ghetto, society, law enforcement, trapped, behind enemy lines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Style:
touching, emotional, road movie, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, letter, road trip, teacher, on the road, children, homeless, bus, poverty, youth, age difference ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
brazil, south america, rio de janeiro, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her ...
Style:
erotic drama, captivating, serious, realistic, sensual ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
prostitution, call girl, phone sex, sexual relations, sex, teenage prostitute, female nudity, teenage prostitution, prostitute, innocence lost, youth, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo, brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
TV show
Story:
Gilda (Karine Teles) is a free woman, in the most literal sense of the word. She has excellent culinary skills, raises pigs and chickens in the backyard of her home for slaughter and produces recipes capable of enchanting her friends, family and ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot:
social relations, female protagonist, society, religious fanatic, religious, political intrigue, envy, political unrest, relationship problems, family problems, horny woman, pig ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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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: 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, captivating, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
revenge, flying saucer, funeral, village, manhunt, male pubic hair, murder, drone, resistance, catastrophe, life is a bitch, transsexuality ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, near future
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Brazilian baroque. The young son that ran from his dominant family, descends into decadence and then returns to the nest. With melodramatic themes of tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts and an overheated and intense visual style to ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
incest, forbidden love, family relations, family problems, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, destructive relationship, love and romance, bossy man, couples ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, sexual, sexy ...
Plot:
transsexual, eroticism, lgbt, relationships, nudity, sexual content, self discovery, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, bare breasts, transgender ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, touching, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
missionary, jungle, religion, nudity, culture clash, civilization, greed, christianity, male nudity, malaria, genocide, adventurer ...
Time:
year 1991, 60s, 90s
Place:
brazil, latin america, argentina, south america, india
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, medical horror, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, torture, survival, gory, youth, violence, murder, strong violent content, chase, transplant, brutality, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. ...
Style:
sexy, sweet, cute, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
food, lgbtq, breakup, couples, starting over, affair, chef, cooking, cooking and food, magic, love, restaurant ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
brazil, san francisco, usa, latin america, california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
Style:
sexy, touching, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage love, parents and children, family relations, high school life, youth, sister sister relationship, friendship, high school, sisterhood, teenage girl, girlhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A finely tuned, emotionally raw portrait of a woman’s conflicted entry into adulthood, Once Upon a Time Veronica is a thoroughly modern anti–fairy tale. Director Marcelo Gomes shows a rare ability to get under the skin — and cut close to the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
introspection, unfulfillment, cause and meaning, dull life, graphic violence, public nudity, male pubic hair, orgy, female nudity, male full rear nudity, sexual deviant, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
In 1970s Brazil, a Corsican gangster, a Sicilian Capo and a master forger join forces to revolutionize the Mafia in South America. As American and Italian law enforcement close in, the trio must navigate dangerous alliances, shady deals and their ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime drama, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, underworld, on the lam, criminal, bandit, fighting crime, criminality, criminal underworld, criminal as protagonist, criminal gang, power struggle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
brazil, south america, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Moira, Anete and Caio are employees of a public office who do nothing in the office, which has lost some government attention over the years. Until a new boss arrives, Tales, with his intern Leda, and makes the old employees suffer with new and many ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
power relations, workplace, boss and employee, civil servant, politics, office, disorder, workplace situations, bureaucracy, incompetence, office politics, social commentary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three young friends, Tita, Mari and Aninha decide to change their situations and travel to a beach place for a weekend. On the road, they meet Estrella, a hippie that wants a hide to try to find her unknown father. Together, they will live ...
Style:
sexy, not serious, humorous, realistic, road movie ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
friends, strong female presence, buddies, best friend, silly humor, disorder, youth, escapades, beach, female bonding, friendship, female friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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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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