Brazilian Cinema

Best Brazilian Movies

Name: Best Brazilian Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Brazilian cinema — vibrant, raw, and uniquely powerful storytelling from South America.

Best Brazilian Movies — 8 entries in the brazilian cinema category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
City of God	2002	Fernando Meirelles	8.4	Drama, Crime	Brazil	129	In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
A Dog's Will	2000	Guel Arraes	8.4	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance	Brazil	104	The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
Elite Squad	2007	José Padilha	8.1	Drama, Action, Crime	Brazil	115	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.
Central Station	1998	Walter Salles	8.1	Drama	Brazil	111	An emotional 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.
I'm Still Here	2024	Walter Salles	7.9	Drama, History	Brazil	138	A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	2010	José Padilha	7.8	Drama, Action, Crime	Brazil	115	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 Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prison...
Bacurau	2019	Kleber Mendonça Filho	7.7	Mystery, Western, Thriller	Brazil	131	Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Blindness	2008	Fernando Meirelles	6.5	Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller	Brazil	121	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.

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