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Kanopy
89
8.6
/857997/
85
/13573/
84
/7895/
4.6
/959916/
91
/163/
97
/15603/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
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.
poster
Netflix
88
8.1
/123870/
83
/2490/
79
/889/
4.3
/696177/
97
/204/
97
/182/
85
/43/
cc age 14+

I'm Still Here (2024)
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.
poster
87
8.0
/5986/
81
/199/
80
/84/
3.9
/101415/
98
/116/
93
/67/
91
/31/

The Secret Agent (2025)
In Brazil in 1977, Marcelo, a technology specialist fleeing a mysterious past, returns to Recife in search of peace, but realizes the city is far from the refuge he seeks.
poster
87
7.9
/112664/
76
/1957/
77
/1681/
4.1
/108549/
96
/53/
91
/1696/
100
/17/
cc age 11+

Notorious (1946)
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
7.9
/10397/
79
/302/
79
/227/
4.2
/43256/
94
/17/
93
/134/

Pixote (1980)
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
poster
87
8.6
/20980/
88
/1271/
84
/1193/
4.2
/113842/
94
/106/

A Dog's Will (2000)
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.
poster
85
8.4
/24995/
81
/701/
81
/650/
4.3
/31406/
94
/95/
90
/120/
83
/29/

The Salt of the Earth (2014)
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.
poster
The Roku Channel
85
8.0
/59629/
79
/4098/
77
/1363/
4.0
/48718/
96
/143/
87
/512/
88
/38/
cc age 16+

Citizenfour (2014)
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
poster
84
8.0
/49474/
84
/1197/
81
/1004/
4.3
/190028/
94
/50/
95
/763/
80
/25/

Central Station (1998)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
84
7.7
/10579/
78
/373/
78
/333/
4.1
/35213/
94
/84/
89
/22/
81
/18/

Invisible Life (2019)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.9
/8914/
77
/246/
75
/142/
4.1
/21878/
91
/22/
91
/204/
77
/14/

Burden of Dreams (1982)
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.9
/42051/
75
/919/
76
/839/
4.1
/74988/
77
/30/
92
/844/

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
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Kanopy
82
7.3
/33390/
77
/2105/
76
/1096/
3.9
/157752/
93
/170/
84
/114/
82
/27/

Bacurau (2019)
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.
poster
82
7.8
/8923/
73
/221/
73
/136/
3.9
/10713/
96
/79/
90
/341/
83
/27/

Bus 174 (2002)
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
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Kanopy
82
8.4
/39555/
81
/1416/
80
/656/
4.2
/35726/
75
/77/
87
/439/
65
/24/

Samsara (2011)
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.9
/29130/
82
/1740/
79
/966/
3.9
/103106/
93
/42/
90
/158/
71
/16/

The Way He Looks (2014)
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, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.
poster
84
80
8.2
/8072/
82
/297/
77
/235/
3.9
/14100/
93
/42/
90
/158/

I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (2011)
The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.
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Kanopy
81
80
7.5
/16644/
73
/332/
72
/269/
3.8
/12772/
100
/71/
86
/241/
90
/13/
cc age 8+

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
poster
80
7.8
/9646/
79
/478/
79
/288/
4.0
/76310/
86
/79/

Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
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. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
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Fandango at Home Free
80
8.0
/91013/
81
/3146/
78
/1971/
4.0
/84206/
91
/46/
91
/608/
71
/18/

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
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 prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.
poster
80
7.5
/251630/
75
/6392/
72
/3375/
4.0
/168610/
85
/227/
80
/5391/
81
/42/
cc age 13+

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.3
/119749/
70
/2624/
71
/1642/
3.7
/107639/
89
/180/
72
/7884/
86
/37/
cc age 18+

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.1
/9332/
72
/321/
71
/231/
3.8
/31474/
90
/42/
76
/45/
77
/9/

Neighboring Sounds (2012)
An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
poster
Netflix
78
7.6
/2314/
74
/155/
75
/42/
3.7
/28669/
82
/16/
cc age 14+

Apocalypse in the Tropics (2025)
When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian evangelical leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former president Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist: a magnetic pastor who aspires to play puppet master to the far-right leader.
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Criterion Channel
78
7.3
/19454/
71
/349/
70
/360/
3.8
/16083/
81
/77/
77
/242/
82
/15/

Tess (1979)
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
poster
78
7.4
/17760/
73
/311/
71
/946/
3.7
/8401/
90
/100/
87
/415/
73
/34/

I'm Not Scared (2003)
In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it …
poster
77
7.2
/2685/
65
/19/
64
/44/
3.7
/2221/
87
/15/
79
/12/

The War Is Over (1966)
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
poster
83
77
8.5
/6997/
83
/258/
80
/215/
4.3
/37517/

Isle of Flowers (1989)
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
7.2
/15342/
74
/812/
77
/643/
3.4
/63840/
89
/93/
94
/124/
61
/12/
cc age 13+

Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.
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Kanopy
79
77
7.8
/20399/
76
/326/
73
/219/
3.9
/20789/
91
/33/
90
/546/
70
/12/
cc age 12+

Now, Voyager (1942)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
7.3
/18915/
71
/393/
70
/323/
3.7
/19716/
86
/37/
81
/295/
80
/10/

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
7.4
/5873/
77
/344/
73
/205/
3.9
/35086/
83
/24/
84
/20/
67
/10/

A Wolf at the Door (2013)
Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.
poster
77
8.1
/549541/
79
/15144/
77
/7569/
3.9
/364335/
89
/235/
88
/3856/
74
/43/
cc age 17+

Rush (2013)
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.0
/6887/
71
/214/
74
/333/
3.8
/10308/
79
/14/
79
/28/

That Man from Rio (1964)
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
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Kanopy
78
76
7.4
/13212/
73
/313/
70
/222/
3.8
/31033/
88
/72/
86
/357/
81
/8/

Black Orpheus (1959)
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
poster
76
7.4
/1821/
78
/98/
73
/76/
3.8
/28889/
80
/5/
77
/12/

Hour of the Star (1985)
Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
poster
76
7.6
/24128/
78
/782/
75
/581/
4.1
/83208/
68
/81/
85
/350/
71
/28/

Carandiru (2003)
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
poster
Hulu
75
6.8
/6610/
73
/705/
75
/138/
3.2
/9112/
86
/56/
96
/181/
70
/8/
cc age 8+

My Penguin Friend (2024)
A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them.
poster
Disney Plus
75
7.5
/1494/
72
/71/
68
/24/
3.9
/4921/
97
/74/
82
/9/
83
/19/
cc age 10+

The Territory (2022)
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.
poster
75
7.1
/14222/
72
/788/
76
/1397/
3.6
/23357/
86
/106/
73
/24/
64
/22/
cc age 16+

The Traitor (2019)
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
poster
73
7.1
/908/
66
/16/
76
/16/
3.5
/936/
83
/23/
70
/20/

It's All True (1993)
A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.4
/1962/
72
/76/
73
/45/
3.5
/503/
71
/38/
79
/51/
59
/14/

Surviving Progress (2011)
Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.
poster
73
7.6
/7749/
73
/112/
72
/124/
3.9
/7809/
74
/46/
88
/151/
73
/19/

Behind the Sun (2001)
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
poster
78
73
7.6
/7804/
79
/433/
78
/398/
4.0
/32921/
80
/26/

Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003)
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 gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
poster
The Roku Channel
73
7.3
/427758/
73
/16997/
72
/8604/
3.5
/415262/
77
/207/
83
/11892/
66
/41/
cc age 14+

Fast Five (2011)
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 Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
poster
72
7.1
/4624/
67
/80/
65
/81/
3.5
/1638/
67
/18/
77
/51/

Mountains of the Moon (1990)
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
poster
79
72
7.7
/7223/
78
/236/
79
/218/
4.0
/46766/
84
/35/

Brainstorm (2001)
Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.
poster
72
7.6
/12370/
77
/461/
75
/365/
4.0
/44808/
68
/31/
83
/123/
49
/15/

The Man Who Copied (2003)
A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.


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