Country: Brazil

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Synopsis City of God (2002) follows the lives of two boys growing up in the violent, poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Rocket, an aspiring photographer, dreams of escaping the chaos, while Li'l Zé, a ruthless drug dealer, rises to power...

Direction Jorge Furtado

Synopsis Isle of Flowers (S) (1989) is a thought-provoking Brazilian short film that blends documentary and satire to explore themes of poverty, inequality, and human dignity. The narrative follows a seemingly simple journey—a tomato's path from a farm to a landfill—but...

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Synopsis Twenty Years Later (Portuguese: Cabra Marcado para Morrer, "A Goat Marked for Death") is a 1984 Brazilian documentary film which has become one of the best-known films directed by Eduardo Coutinho. It originated in 1964 as a planned feature film...

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund · Regina Casé · Paulo Morelli

Cast Darlan Cunha · Douglas Silva · Jonathan Haagensen · Camila Monteiro

Synopsis TV Series (2002-2018). 6 Seasons. 27 Episodes. In this original variation on the Latin American telenovela (slow, emotional soap), life in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian big city jungle, is told in short, fast alternating scenes from the viewpoints of...

Direction José Padilha

Cast Wagner Moura · Caio Junqueira · André Ramiro · Fernanda Machado

Synopsis Between 1997 and present day, "Tropa de Elite" shows the actual security situation of Rio de Janeiro. Without enough resources from the government, the military police always have to handle situations with a carioca "jeitinho"(illicit way) to make things work....

Direction Walter Salles

Cast Fernanda Montenegro · Vinicius de Oliveira · Marilia Pêra · Soia Lira

Synopsis In Central Station (1998), Dora, a jaded retired teacher, writes letters for illiterate passengers at Rio de Janeiro's bustling train station. Her life changes when Josué, a young boy whose mother dies tragically, is left stranded. Reluctantly, Dora agrees to...

Direction Eliza Capai

Cast Marcela Jesus · Nayara Souza · Lucas 'Koka' Penteado

Direction Gonzaga Blota · Jayme Monjardim · Marcos Paulo · Paulo Ubiratan

Cast José Wilker · Lima Duarte · Regina Duarte · Maurício Mattar

Synopsis 209 Episodes. (1985-1986) Roque was thought to be dead; in his hometown, common people started worshiping him as a saint. Now he's back. And how is he going to explain this to them?

Direction Paulo Sacramento

Synopsis A documentary by Paulo Sacramento in which it is shown Brazilian prision system, seen from the inside; a year before the demolition of Carandiru Penitentiary, located in São Paulo, prisoners learn to use cameras and document their daily life inside...

Direction Walter Salles

Cast Fernanda Torres · Selton Mello · Fernanda Montenegro · Luiza Kosovski

Synopsis Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's best-selling memoir in which his mother is forced into activism when her husband was captured by a military regime in Brazil, 1971.

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Synopsis For one week, Eduardo Coutinho and his team talked to 27 residents in an enormous building in Copacabana. Amongst these are a middle-aged couple who met through the classified ads in a newspaper, a call-girl who keeps her daughter and...

Direction José Padilha · Felipe Lacerda

Direction Roberto Berliner

Cast Glória Pires · Simone Mazzer · Julio Adrião · Claudio Jaborandy

Synopsis A miracle happened in Brazil on the 1950's. Renowned modern art museums opened their doors to artists nobody ever heard of. Many critics pointed out that theses exhibitions revealed painters that should be ranked amongst the best brazillian artists of...

Direction Anselmo Duarte

Cast Norma Bengell · Leonardo Villar · Glória Menezes · Dionísio Azevedo

Synopsis A poor man named Ze living in rural Brazilian values his donkey above all else. When it takes ill, Ze prays for its recovery and promises God that he will carry a cross all the way to the state capital...

Direction Teresa Lampréia · Jayme Monjardim · Marcos Schechtman

Cast Thiago Lacerda · Giovanna Antonelli · Werner Schünemann · Camila Morgado

Synopsis The greatest civil war Brazil ever faced by the point of view of the seven women of the separatist leader's family.

Direction Fabiano Maciel

Cast Oscar Niemeyer · Eduardo Galeano · Chico Buarque de Hollanda · José Saramago

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Synopsis Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Direction José Padilha

Cast Wagner Moura · Irandhir Santos · André Ramiro · Maria Ribeiro

Synopsis Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010) follows Colonel Nascimento, now a high-ranking security official in Rio de Janeiro, as he battles corruption within the police force and government. After a brutal prison riot exposes deep-rooted systemic issues, Nascimento is...

Direction João Moreira Salles

Synopsis No Intenso Agora (In the Intense Now) from Brazil’s João Moreira Salles, who juxtaposes a cornucopia of archive materials documenting the events which unfolded in Paris in 1968 with amateur footage showing the suppression of the Prague Spring and footage...