Best Brazilian Movies
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Brazilian Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspense and tense. Plot: friendship, society, male nudity, coming of age, drug, family relations, poverty, storytelling, love and gun. Genre: Drama, Crime and Comedy. Country: Brazil, USA and France.
Best Brazilian Movies
TOP Movies: The Man Who Copied (2003), A Wolf at the Door (2013), City of God (2002), Rich in Love (2020), My Name Ain't Johnny (2008), The Man from the Future (2011), Casa Grande (2014), Tim Maia (2014), Just Like Our Parents (2017), A Dog's Will (2000), Nise: The Heart of Madness (2015), Bald Mountain (2013), 7 Prisoners (2021), Brainstorm (2000), The Killer (2017), Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003), The House of Sand (2005), Artificial Paradises (2012), Pixote (1980), The Electric State (2025).
List of Best Movies
Genre: 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, cerebral, stylized, intense, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
favela, organized crime, politics, corruption, police corruption, gangster, political corruption, gunfight, poverty, police investigation, justice, corrupt politician ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, south america, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 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:
sexy, light, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
sex, love and romance, voyeurism, poverty, hot and sexy, stalking, neighbor, shyness, society, cons and scams, moral ambiguity, dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, africa, tokyo ...
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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: 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:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, ironic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
clown, fame, irony, celebrity, showbiz, desire for fame, problem, actor's life, surrealism, actor, popularity, television ...
Time:
80s
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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: 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:
captivating, romantic, funny, entertaining, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
romantic relationship, rich man poor woman, in love, co worker co worker relationship, relationships, farm, lie, love, countryside, father son relationship, friendship, love and romance ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
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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, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
prison, drug lord, ambition, drug dealing, buddies, couple relations, life is a bitch, addiction, partner, hopes, criminal heroes, downfall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
rio de janeiro, south america, venice, latin america, brazil
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Genre: Adventure, 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, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, existence paradox, destiny, hopes, inventions and discoveries, disorder, love and romance, true love, changing the past or future, sent to the past, passion, neuroscience ...
Time:
2010s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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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: 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, emotional, tragic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
singer, biopic, music, drug, musician's life, life story, historical figure, historical character, social problems, lifestyle, musician, celebrity ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, usa, new york
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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, psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, lgbt, family relations, death of mother, cancer, mother daughter relationship, loss of mother, terminal illness, lesbian, sex scene, teenager ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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, poverty, religion, race against time, hopes, clergy, unfulfilled love, social differences, odd couple, society, buddies, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, northeast brazil
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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:
captivating, light, spiritual, inspirational, medical drama ...
Plot:
mental patient, disturbed individual, mental health, art, biopic, brazilian history, art exhibition, historical event, mental institution, mentally unstable, female artist, painter ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Action, Crime, 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:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, neo noir
Plot:
gold mine, golddigger, greed, gangster, betrayal by friend, violence, friends, get rich quick scheme, ambition, greedy man, escapades, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
brazil
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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, psychological, disturbing, existential, hood
Plot:
prison, moral dilemma, poverty, slavery, trap, realism, struggle for survival, slave trader, life is a bitch, survival, existentialism, gang ...
Place:
sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil, brazil
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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, atmospheric, captivating, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug addiction, youth, mental institution, teenage life, dysfunctional family, unsupportive parent, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family problems, society, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
south america, latin america, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Drama, 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:
suspense, suspenseful, brutal, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
wilderness, lone hero, violence spree, tough guy, danger, vigilante, hitman, gunfight, violence, dark hero, professional killer, righteous rage ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil
Is relevant?
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, danger, fall in love, infidelity, small town, circus, feminism, magic realism, cinema ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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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, saga ...
Plot:
survival, parents and children, desert, pregnancy, isolation, starting over, homecoming, village life, stranded, mother daughter relationship, widow, farm ...
Time:
1910s, year 2005, 20th century
Place:
brazil, former yugoslavia, latin america, europe
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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, sexual ...
Plot:
lesbian teen, youth, fall in love, best friend, drug abuse, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, lesbian, threesome, music festival, gay, erotica ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, latin america, amsterdam
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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: 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, humorous, 3d animation, visually stunning, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
food, inventor, nerd, natural disaster, father son relationship, small town, mad scientist, greed, fall in love, parents and children, hot dog, save the world ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, new york, paris france, china, egypt ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In a retro-futuristic past, orphaned teenager Michelle traverses the American West with an eccentric drifter and a sweet but mysterious robot in search of her younger brother.
Style:
adult animation, crying, retro, depressing
Plot:
dystopia, brother sister relationship, artificial intelligence, missing brother, missing person, foster home, cycling, albert einstein, weapons, battles, giant robot, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, year 1997, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, seattle, st. louis missouri
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, 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, intense, serious, realistic, social ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug traffic, favela, squad, drug lord, leader, slum, police, fighting crime, police brutality, law enforcement, torture ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, berlin germany
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Genre: Action, Biography, 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 ...
Style:
political thriller
Plot:
military dictatorship, brazilian military dictatorship, dictatorship, dictator, torture, male nudity, male pubic hair, brazilian politics, fascism, racial issues, escape, journalism ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil, northeast brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk melody in all time, showing how the rhythm and poetry of the periphery conquered Brazil.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, semi autobiographical, inspirational ...
Plot:
biopic, musician, music band, musician's life, lifestyle, music, legacy, music industry, tribute, favela, community, coming of age ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Is relevant?
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, sweet, sexual, cute, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, blindness, lgbt, homosexuality, coming of age, gay teenager, friendship, gay love, teenage life, lgbt teen, gay interest, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, 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:
sexy, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
criminal, political corruption, lawlessness, money, hostage, bandit, criminal gang, outlaw gang, stolen money, organized crime, murder, gang ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style:
black and white, minimal cast, suspense, gothic horror, mysterious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
isolation, nightmare, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, drunkenness, symbolism, hallucination, fight, storm, madness, violence, bird ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 90s, year 2019, victorian era ...
Place:
new england, nova scotia, canada
Is relevant?
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:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, singer, biopic, longing, musician's life, life, rising to stardom, musician, price of fame, glory, lifestyle, historical figure ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil, rio de janeiro
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