Best Brazilian Movies

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Best Brazilian Movies
Best Brazilian Movies
TOP Movies: The Man Who Copied (2003), City of God (2002), A Wolf at the Door (2013), Rich in Love (2020), My Name Ain't Johnny (2008), The Man from the Future (2011), Tim Maia (2014), Just Like Our Parents (2017), Nise: The Heart of Madness (2015), A Dog's Will (2000), 7 Prisoners (2021), Bald Mountain (2013), The Killer (2017), Brainstorm (2000), Casa Grande (2014), Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003), Pixote (1980), The House of Sand (2005), Artificial Paradises (2012), Fast Five (2011).

List of Best Movies

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Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)
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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The Man Who Copied (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: André, 19, lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and works as a photocopier operator. He likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a pair of binoculars. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, he tries to get nearer, and goes to her shop to buy ...
Style: light, sexy, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: love and romance, voyeurism, shyness, society, neighbor, cons and scams, poverty, sex, stalking, moral ambiguity, dream, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, africa
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 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
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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A Wolf at the Door (2013)
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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Bingo: The King of the Mornings (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story: 1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, ironic, thought provoking ...
Plot: clown, fame, desire for fame, surrealism, problem, television, irony, actor's life, life, actor, popularity, social criticism ...
Time: 80s
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 6.0
 3K
Rich in Love (2020)
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: romantic, captivating, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rich man poor woman, co worker co worker relationship, romantic relationship, lie, love, countryside, father son relationship, friendship, farm, love and romance, love affair, love story ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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My Name Ain't Johnny (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the 90's, In Rio de Janeiro, the middle-class João Guilherme Estrella is introduced to the world of drugs consuming maconha and cocaine first and later becoming a drug-dealer with many connections inclusive in Europe. However, he spends all ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: prison, drug lord, drug dealing, life is a bitch, couple relations, buddies, ambition, addiction, partner, rehabilitation, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place: rio de janeiro, venice, latin america, brazil
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The Man from the Future (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Zero (Wagner Moura) is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena (Alinne Moraes) the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, apocalyptic, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, existence paradox, scientist, disorder, inventions and discoveries, destiny, hopes, love and romance, sent to the past, time warp, time, butterfly effect ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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 7.2
 3K
Tim Maia (2014)
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
Plot: singer, music, biopic, drug, musician's life, historical character, social problems, lifestyle, historical figure, musician, celebrity, brazilian abroad ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, new york
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Just Like Our Parents (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really ...
Style: touching, suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: adultery, infidelity, lgbt, family relations, cancer, loss of mother, death of mother, mother daughter relationship, terminal illness, lgbtq, teenager, anthropology ...
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Nise: The Heart of Madness (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeirom where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by ...
Style: light, captivating, spiritual, inspirational
Plot: mental patient, mental illness, disturbed individual, art, biopic, brazilian history, art exhibition, mental institution, historical event, painter, female artist, mentally unstable ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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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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 7.1
 9K
7 Prisoners (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, existential, hood
Plot: prison, moral dilemma, poverty, slavery, trap, struggle for survival, life is a bitch, life risking, slave trader, realism, survival, existentialism ...
Place: sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Bald Mountain (2013)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, neo noir
Plot: gold mine, golddigger, greed, gangster, betrayal by friend, get rich quick scheme, friendship, greedy man, violence, social problems, escapades, gold ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: 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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 7.7
 6K
Brainstorm (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The maconha cigarrete is just the final drop ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, youth, mental institution, unsupportive parent, dysfunctional family, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, family problems, parents and children, coming of age, society, misfit ...
Time: 20th century
Place: latin america, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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 6.8
 3K
Casa Grande (2014)
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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Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: couples, hitman, love and romance, cons and scams, fall in love, danger, small town, infidelity, feminism, circus, cinema, magic realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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 7.9
 9K
Pixote (1980)
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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The House of Sand (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Style: sentimental, serious, psychological, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: desert, survival, parents and children, pregnancy, isolation, starting over, homecoming, village life, mother daughter relationship, stranded, widow, farm ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america, europe, former yugoslavia
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Artificial Paradises (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Artificial Paradises tells the story of Nando and Erika, two young people in their twenties who meet several times without noticing. It tells the story of the subculture of electronic music and rave parties and drugs like MDMA.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, erotic, visually appealing ...
Plot: youth, best friend, fall in love, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, drug abuse, lesbian, music festival, lesbian teen, erotica, polyamory, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, amsterdam
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 7.3
 405K
Fast Five (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de ...
Style: exciting, action packed, suspense, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: heist, car chase, chase, car race, car, on the run, racing, organized crime, street racing, tough heroes, freedom, classic car ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: brazil, iran, latin america, south america, rio de janeiro ...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he ...
Style: feel good, 3d animation, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: food, inventor, nerd, natural disaster, father son relationship, mad scientist, small town, greed, parents and children, save the world, friendship, weatherman ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, paris france, china, egypt, london ...
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 8.0
 110K
Elite Squad (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, 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, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
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 7.3
 5K
Two Rabbits (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, sexy ...
Plot: criminal, political corruption, lawlessness, money, hostage, gang, outlaw gang, murder, stolen money, murderer, organized crime, crime boss ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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The Way He Looks (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, ...
Style: touching, cute, sweet, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, blindness, lgbt, homosexuality, coming of age, school, gay teenager, friendship, gay love, teenage life, homosexual, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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 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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 7.4
 252K
The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, drunkenness, symbolism, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: nova scotia, new england
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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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Brazilian Western (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An adaptation of the eponymous song by Renato Russo, a famous Brazilian singer and composer who in the style of Bob Dylan knew how to delight crowds by telling stories and singing with his lyrics. Focusing on the love story of outlaw João do Santo ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, serious, emotional ...
Plot: forbidden love, love affair, drug dealing, love and romance, fall in love, on the run, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, prison, violence, mobster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: brazil
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