Movies and TV shows set in brazil – page 2

List of movies set in brazil

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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: true crime, murder of parents, murder, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murderer, dysfunctional family, killings, parents and children, criminal, parent child relationship ...
Time: 2000s
Place: brazil, sao paulo 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
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 6.6
 3K
VIPs (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A human look on the life of one of the biggest frauds in the world happened by important people in Brazil.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, stylized
Plot: ambition, dishonesty, escapades, cons and scams, society, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, mistaken identity, hidden identity, samba, drug lord, biopic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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 7.6
 22K
Carandiru (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru, ...
Style: bleak, compassionate, captivating, touching, rough ...
Plot: prison, aids, doctor, prison life, fighting the system, gay, life is a bitch, fighting illness, protest, regret, lgbt, solitary ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Hard Labor (2011)
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, boss and employee, workplace, career change, store, power relations, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, suspicion, fired from the job, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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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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 6.6
 1K
Hard Paint (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: While facing criminal charges, Pedro must grapple with his sister's sudden decision to move away and leave him behind. Alone in the darkness of his bedroom, he dances covered in neon paint, while thousands of strangers watch him via webcam.
Style: suspense, melancholic, disturbing, independent film, enigmatic ...
Plot: gay, male pubic hair, gay teenager, lgbt, gay sex, bullying, lgbtq, teenager, life turned upside down, escapades, rivalry, youth ...
Place: 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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 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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Father’s Chair (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, couples, family problems, life turned upside down, disorder, crumbling marriage, self discovery, parents and children, relationship vs career, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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Bye Bye Brasil (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come ...
Style: road movie, manga, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: on the road, female nudity, prostitution, circus, transformation, surrealism, male nudity, bare breasts, amazon jungle, performer's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: brazil, latin america
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The Battle of Canudos (1997)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The film adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author, Mario Vargas Llosa's epic, The War At The End Of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo).
Style: political, captivating, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: military, prostitution, reflection, american civil war, battles, family relations, politics, religions or cults, state affairs, heroes, society, unfulfillment ...
Time: 19th century
Place: brazil, latin america
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Bossa Nova (2000)
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 ...
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, brazil, latin america
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 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
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Where My Heart Is (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A resident doctor – wealthy and with a seemingly prosperous future – starts using crack cocaine as an escape from life’s pressures. Although struggling against her addiction, she is often challenged by circumstances that make her hit rock ...
Style: disturbing, dramatic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: drug abuse, doctor, addiction, woman, drug, female protagonist, drug addict, female doctor, drug use, family drama, female nudity
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
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The Boy Who Killed My Parents (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A psychological thriller surrounding the real murders of Manfred and Marísia von Richthofen orchestrated by their own daughter, Suzane, along with her boyfriend and brother-in-law, the Cravinhos brothers.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: murder of parents, planned murder, bad influence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, courtroom, father daughter relationship, evil man, murder trial, family problems, parents and children, murderer ...
Time: 2000s
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
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The Night of the Chupacabras (2011)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Death and blood are in the middle of a feud between two families. Something creepy rounds the Silva Farm and makes its victims. The Carvalho Family, stuck to their past and hatred, can't see the secular evil that approaches from the darken ...
Style: splatter, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, tense ...
Plot: vampire, monster, chupacabra, family feud, feud, death, family relations, rescue, heroes, siblings living together, supernatural power, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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Nobody's Looking (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: A new guardian "angelus" uncovers a secret behind the Angelus System's bureaucracy that leads him to break its official rules about protecting humans.
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: vegan, office, redhead, afterlife, invisible, drug, hamster, horoscope, existentialism, existential crisis, threesome, angel ...
Place: brazil
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The Raid (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
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, law enforcement, society, urban ghetto, race against time, trapped, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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Lula, the Son of Brazil (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: working class, president, urban ghetto, hopes, family problems, dysfunctional family, social differences, ambition, siblings relations, political activism, rise to the top, single parent ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: brazil, latin america
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 7.1
 2K
Chico Xavier (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot: spiritualism, religion, faith, religions or cults, medium, society, charity, clergy, dog, myth, occult, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1920s, 70s
Place: brazil, tibet
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Posthumous Memories (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
Style: contemplative, semi serious, cynical, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: society, introspection, love and romance, fall in love, satire, unfulfillment, wooing, nude, life after death, dark humor, political election, nudity ...
Time: 19th century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Dead in the Water (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young, rich, and randy Gloria (Dominique Swain) takes the family motorboat for some fun in the sun off the coast of Brazil. Along with her are her longtime boyfriend Danny (Scott Bairstow), his best friend Jeff (Henry Thomas), and the son of an ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense
Plot: ocean, boat, yacht, murder, friends, couples, forbidden love, survival, dishonesty, danger, friendship, boyfriend ...
Place: brazil, latin america
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The Other Side of the Street (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: murder, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, terminal illness, murder witness, love and romance, fall in love, amateur detective, aging, elderly, investigation ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, former yugoslavia, europe
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 2K
Memory (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, uncover truth, investigation, gory, who done it, police detective, mind game, mysterious character, experiment gone awry, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006
Place: brazil, latin america
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That Man from Rio (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a ...
Style: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, nothing goes right, daring rescue, disorder, danger, escapades, cons and scams, treasure hunt, kidnapping, husband wife relationship, treasure hunter, caper ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: brazil, france, paris france, rio de janeiro
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The Second Mother (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, melancholic, touching, political ...
Plot: class differences, family drama, depression, loneliness, family relations, character study, nanny, family problems, parent child relationship, coming of age, twists and turns, female protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil, south america, latin america
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 6.6
 211K
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, Hungary, Thailand, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Disney’s live-action adaptation of its iconic theme park ride.
Style: scenic, captivating, funny, light, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly
Plot: jungle, treasure, amazon river, myth, snake, amazon jungle, danger, dangerous animal, artifact, expedition, amazon rainforest, explorer ...
Time: 1910s, 2020s, future, year 1916, 16th century ...
Place: brazil, london, spain, europe, south america
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Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 231 min.
Story: Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, epic, stylized ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, emigration, society, parents and children, village life, diary, migrant, social problems, magic realism, social relations, youth ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2013
Place: brazil, germany, south america
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