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, touching, psychological and suspense films and TV shows about / with female nudity, male nudity, society, nudity, pubic hair, family relations, youth, beach, prostitute and love plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres shot in Brazil, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as brazil: Conception (2005), August Winds (2014), Bog of Beasts (2006), Pixote (1980), City of God (2002), Adrift (2009), Central Station (1998), Love Strange Love (1982), Blame It on Rio (1984), A Wolf at the Door (2013).
Best films
New films
Verdict (2022) | 6.4 | |
Summer Heat (2022) | 5.6 | |
Jungle Cruise (2021) | 6.6 | |
Fast X (2023) | 5.8 | |
The King of TV (2022) | 7.4 |
List of movies set in brazil
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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:
self discovery, sex scene, friends, buddies, male nudity, society, rebelliousness, rebellion, mistaken identity, student life, anarchism, drug ...
Time:
21st century
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, social relations, realism, village, village life, care, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, 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, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, coitus, sexual torture, youth, kids in trouble, village, village life, life is a bitch, innocence lost, prostitute, voyeurism, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
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:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, sex with a minor, boy, coming of age, children, anal rape, child rape, breast feeding, loneliness, homeless, tragedy ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
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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: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, touching, teen ...
Plot:
infidelity, beach house, coming of age, teenage sexuality, father daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, parent child relationship, family problems, dishonesty, love, youth ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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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, feel good, emotional, road movie, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, road trip, teacher, on the road, children, homeless, letter, poverty, youth, adoption, great ending ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america, 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, suspenseful, suspense, rough, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, boy, female nudity, mother son relationship, male nudity, older woman teenage boy sex, sex, coming of age, erotica, voyeur, sex with a minor ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937, 70s, year 1982
Place:
brazil
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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:
suspense, light, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, seduction, teenage girl, bare breasts, nudism, sexual awakening, summer vacation, underage sex, teenager, older man young girl relationship, unlikely friendships, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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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, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
missing child, infidelity, mistress, kidnapping, couples, family problems, destructive relationship, dishonesty, true crime, mafia, woman, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 131 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:
captivating, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult, teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, female nudity, call girl, sexual content, prostitute, teenage prostitute, phone sex, sexual relations, innocence lost, human nature, youth, biopic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, sao paulo 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, serious, sentimental, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, under the surface, class differences, parents and children, family problems, social differences, power relations, family life, unfulfillment, social relations, society, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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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, adult
Plot:
erotica, sex scene, sexual pleasure, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, forbidden love, lust, sexuality, seduction, bdsm, femme fatale, watching sex ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, 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:
captivating, thought provoking, touching, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
missionary, jungle, religion, culture clash, civilization, insanity, greed, ecology, christianity, malaria, genocide, adventurer ...
Time:
year 1991, 60s, 90s
Place:
brazil, latin america, argentina
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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, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, family life, parents and children, destructive relationship, love and romance, couples, countryside, love affair ...
Time:
1940s
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, lesbian love, depression, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
redemption, haunted by the past, prostitute, introspection, society, police, racism, xenophobia, murder, journey, released from prison, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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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, feel good, entertaining, light, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
food, breakup, starting over, couples, cooking, chef, cooking and food, lgbtq, restaurant, love, magic, wizard ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
brazil, san francisco, usa, california, latin america ...
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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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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
jungle, coming of age, river, youth, priest, feral child, dolphins, social justice, nature, jungle adventure, revenge, escape ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
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Story:
At a high school in a rural, isolated ranching community, families panic when teens contract a mysterious "kissing disease" that quickly spreads.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
gay sex, gay, gay slur, teenager, disease, panic, countryside, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, youth, danger, love ...
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
What if life blindsided destiny? What if happiness was found in the unlikeliest of places? When do we allow ourselves to embrace the new without fear of letting go of the past? Gil is a twenty year old young man that questions himself and the world. ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
gay, musician's life, starting over, on the road, follow your dream, running away from home, twentysomething life, destiny, hopes, introspection, lgbt, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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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: 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, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, survival, torture, gory, murder, youth, strong violent content, transplant, violence, brutality, chase, group of friends ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, south america, latin 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: 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:
pornochanchada, realistic, psychological, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
eroticism, lgbt, relationships, nudity, transsexual, sexual content, couples, couple relations, self discovery, sexual relations, bare breasts, transgender ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
brazil, latin america
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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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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the homonymous work of Dias Gomes , The Well Beloved tells the story of the mayor Paraguassu Odorico, whose primary goal in his administration in the city of Sucupira is the inauguration of a cemetery. One side is supported by the sisters ...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
Plot:
journalism, political intrigue, social relations, rivalry, politics, small town, farce, media, dishonesty, town mayor, political election, communication ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. For that, He goes to Brazil's northeast, where He believes there's a very good man for the job, however, during His mission, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, road movie ...
Plot:
optimism, human spirit, society, miraculous event, hopes, human nature, chosen one, faith, religion, god, communication, religions or cults ...
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
Style:
serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic
Plot:
culture clash, rebellion, indians, teenage life, injustice, power relations, fighting the system, dishonesty, hopes, life is a bitch, social differences, jungle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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