Best Brazilian Movies – page 3

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The Trespasser (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Estevão , Ivan e Gilberto são companheiros desde os tempos de faculdade e sócios de uma construtora de sucesso há mais de 15 anos. O relacionamento entre eles sempre foi muito bom, até que um desentendimento na condução dos negócios faz com ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: hitman, murder, crime gone awry, cons and scams, social differences, betrayal, dishonesty, society, partner, blackmail, friends, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
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 6.7
 3K
Adrift (2009)
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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 6.9
 1K
Liquid Truth (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot: swimming, lgbt, conflict, scandal, father son relationship, teacher, society, family relations, teenage protagonist, child abuse, teenage boy, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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 5.7
 28K
Beckett (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: While vacationing in Greece, Beckett, becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating car accident forces him to run for his life across the country to clear his name but tensions escalate as the authorities close in and political unrest mounts ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: political conspiracy, tourist, tragic event, car accident, conspiracy, government conspiracy, anxiety, runaway, life risking, political unrest, escape attempt, evil plot ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
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 6.4
 1K
Dry Wind (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, psychological, lgbt cinema, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, fetish, oral sex, male nudity, erection, gay erotica, male pubic hair, sex in car, gay lead character, lgbt, male full rear nudity ...
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Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island novel.
Style: anime, light, sweet, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: family outing, preschool
Plot: treasure map, doraemon, pirate, sea voyage, ship, sea adventure, friendship, obsessive quest, sea, sea battle, hidden treasure, love of one's life ...
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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of ...
Style: spiritual, serious, captivating, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: life after death, afterlife, reincarnation, spiritualist, self discovery, purgatory, society, human spirit, supernatural, redemption, spiritualism, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, tibet
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Skate Kitchen (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Camille's life as a lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically when she befriends a group of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into this raw New York City subculture, she begins to understand the true meaning of friendship as well ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, aesthetic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skateboard, skateboarder, teenage girl, feminist, mother daughter relationship, sisterhood, society, social media, female friendship, coming of age, rebellious youth, party ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Medusa (2021)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated ...
Plot: lgbt, disfigured face, evangelist, religion, evangelical christianity, feminism, brazilian politics, male nudity, singing, female protagonist, night, fight ...
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 7.0
 827
California (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The year is 1984. Estela is going through the turbulent phase of adolescence. Sex, lovers, friendships; everything seems very complicated. Her uncle Carlos is her hero, and visiting him in California is her biggest dream. But everything collapses ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, vintage
Plot: coming of age, lgbt, life is a bitch, teenager, family problems, teenage life, adolescence, family in crisis, teenage girl, social problems, friendship, character change ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
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If I Were You (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body swapping, switching bodies, switching roles, life turned upside down, couple relations, couples, fish out of water, disorder, husband wife relationship, social problems, marital crisis, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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 4.9
 111K
Anaconda (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil, Peru
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: jungle, snake, boat, animal attack, survival, dangerous animal, killer animal, danger, river, strong violent content, giant snake, amazon river ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: latin america, ecuador, brazil, south america
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 7.0
 2K
Me You Them (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Style: melancholic, road movie, stylized, talky, light ...
Plot: adultery, runaway, love affair, dishonesty, dominant woman, couples, fall in love, bittersweet, farm, polyamory, sex, poverty ...
Time: 90s
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
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 6.5
 75K
Blindness (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, intense, depressing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, plague, survival, epidemic, blindness, distopia, apocalypse, dystopia, virus, post apocalyptic, disability, pandemic ...
Time: distant future, year 2008, 21st century
Place: portugal, sao paulo brazil
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 7.2
 504
The Ballroom (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and ...
Plot: tango, dancer, betrayal, dancing, salsa, samba, flirting, dance
Time: future
Place: brazil
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 6.5
 930
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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 6.7
 8K
Little Men (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute ...
Style: social, sentimental, captivating, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: boy, father son relationship, 13 year old, bullying, best friend, landlord tenant relationship, coming of age, friendship, aspiring actor, teacher, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.6
 357
The Seamstress (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 160 min.
Story: In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbtqi, lgbtq, female nudity, gay, sex scene, suffering, lgbt, loneliness, sister sister relationship, skinny dipping, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: northeast brazil
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The Given Word (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Zé is a very poor man from the Brazilian countryside. His most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way ...
Style: anthropological, spiritual, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: religion, priest, catholic, catholic church, spirit, journalism, spirituality, prostitution, church, simple man, class struggle, once promising ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, latin america
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Embodiment of Evil (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After 30 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling that for which he was imprisoned: find the woman who can give him the perfect child. During his wanderings ...
Style: disturbing, scary, rough, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, gory, danger, vengeance, supernatural, obsession, violence against women, disorder, kidnapping, obsessive quest, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Durval Records (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Durval and his mother Carmita live at the back of "Durval Discos", a record store they own in São Paulo, specializing in vinyl records. They lead a boring and unattractive life, until the day Durval hires a maid, Celia, to help his mother ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, surreal, offbeat ...
Plot: dark humor, eccentric family, comedy of errors, farce, life turned upside down, single parent, family problems, missing child, disorder, family relations, crime gone awry, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Four Days in September (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the ...
Style: realistic, political, talky, suspenseful, manga ...
Plot: military coup, dictator, terrorist, kidnapping, politics, freedom, communism, revolution, drinking, brazilian military dictatorship, secrets, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 60s, year 1967, year 1969 ...
Place: brazil, latin america, mexico city, algeria, portugal ...
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 6.8
 19K
Skin (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Brazil, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, tense, psychological, dramatic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: skinhead, racism, tattooed man, death threat, protest, alienation, gang, starting over, family relations, subculture, couples, danger ...
Time: year 2019
Place: palestine, nashville tennessee, columbus ohio
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Zuzu Angel (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "Zuzu Angel" covers the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice in the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: fighting the system, uncover truth, missing person, injustice, life is a bitch, society, politics, rebellion, legal, price of justice, political unrest, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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Estomago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot: prostitute, prison, fall in love, lifestyle, misfit, survival, criminal heroes, love and romance, society, food, chef, jail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 4K
Lower City (2005)
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: neo noir, serious, captivating, rough, sexy ...
Plot: stripper, love triangle, prostitution, prostitute, friends, escort, jealousy, fall in love, power relations, rich and poor, sex, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: brazil
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A Dangerous Practice (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Arigo, an uneducated man, happily married, father of six, is chosen by a mysterious force to rise up as a spiritually and supernaturally gifted surgeon. Miraculously healing thousands of desperate people, he now faces the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: spirituality, supernatural power, religious faith, religious intolerance, society, religious, life is a bitch, social problems, healing, faith, doctor, medium ...
Place: brazil
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 6.5
 1K
Buddies (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down syndrome, who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where they have always lived in. One day, inspired by the ...
Style: road movie, psychological, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: down syndrome, friends, social problems, escapades, friendship, travel, satire, road trip, cinema, disability, young
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 6.9
 553
Blue Eyes (2009)
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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 6.2
 751
The Division (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, political thriller
Plot: kidnapping, police, abduction, police investigation, crime investigation, investigation, crime solving, attempted kidnapping, forensics, uncover truth, social criticism, city
Place: rio de janeiro
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