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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
Netflix
79
7.3
/16397/
78
/792/
76
/372/
3.8
/40305/
97
/34/
68
/174/
81
/13/

The Edge of Democracy (2019)
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
poster
69
7.4
/6232/
74
/165/
75
/130/
3.8
/27518/
59
/17/
76
/47/

Four Days in September (1997)
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
poster
Netflix
68
7.0
/6051/
70
/319/
73
/204/
3.4
/11850/
84
/32/
74
/8/
61
/6/
cc age 13+

Pelé (2021)
Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian footballer who personified football as art.
poster
74
68
7.3
/6865/
73
/148/
71
/118/
3.7
/8709/
81
/54/
82
/293/
67
/19/

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
poster
83
64
8.2
/2135/
83
/86/
82
/65/
4.1
/14142/
89
/472/

They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
61
7.1
/56697/
75
/260/
75
/130/
3.8
/29296/
90
/10/
50
/2/

Marighella (2021)
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 revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
poster
86
50
8.3
/2032/
83
/88/
84
/71/
4.3
/19206/
94
/4/

Twenty Years Later (1984)
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
poster
77
48
7.3
/2323/
81
/130/
75
/81/
3.8
/15561/
83
/5/

Tattoo (2013)
Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
poster
71
46
7.2
/2086/
76
/155/
72
/91/
3.7
/10057/
64
/5/

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
poster
70
44
6.9
/1125/
74
/70/
67
/60/
3.5
/4163/

Zuzu Angel (2006)
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
poster
72
40
7.1
/805/
73
/44/
73
/34/
3.6
/2758/

Baptism of Blood (2007)
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
poster
65
38
4.7
/3506/
76
/18/
64
/16/
3.8
/2441/

Marighella (2012)
This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.
poster
78
37
8.3
/625/
78
/41/
78
/30/
3.7
/1498/

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993)
Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.
poster
Kanopy
77
29
8.1
/502/
77
/26/
76
/22/
3.7
/2288/
79
/2/

The Day That Lasted 21 Years (2012)
Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.
poster
76
28
7.9
/236/
72
/8/
76
/15/
3.9
/1898/

ABC of a Strike (1990)
ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film captures the negotiations between the labor unions and the factory bosses and shows the birth of the region’s Worker’s Party, as well as the emergence of its charismatic leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rising from extreme poverty, Lula gained national prominence as a union activist during the late 70s and early 80s. After being jailed during his time as a union leader, he eventually becomes Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010.
poster
67
23
7.0
/257/
68
/16/
61
/14/
3.6
/1598/

Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell (2017)
Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.
poster
51
20
5.3
/645/
60
/35/
55
/36/
2.8
/1061/
35
/1/

400 Against 1: A History of Organized Crime (2010)
The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership in the Ilha Grande Prison creating a type of unheard of conduct and solidarity in the Brazilian prisons. The film goes on to tell of the group's actions on the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the beginning of the 80s when they irritated the police with their daring robberies, as well as portraying the surprising love story between William and Tereza. The narrative weaves its way between the intimate conflict and the spectacular assaults and escapes.
poster
63
14
6.5
/482/
65
/12/
59
/11/
3.2
/623/

Lamarca (1994)
The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
poster
Kanopy
72
11
7.9
/121/
76
/6/
61
/5/
3.7
/691/

Torre das Donzelas (2018)
Documents former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's visit to the the women's alley of Tiradentes Jail in the city of São Paulo, also known as "Torre das Donzelas" ("Damsels' Tower"). Alongside other women, Dilma was kept as prisoner in there during the 1970s, when Brazil was under a reign of terror during its military dictatorship years. They all meet again 45 years later to break the silence and the fear of speaking out the horrors they lived under a ruthless dictatorship.
poster
62
9
6.3
/265/
61
/6/
60
/10/
3.3
/354/

Memories They Told Me (2013)
A group of friends, who resisted the military dictatorship, and their children will face the conflict between the daily life of today and the past when one of them is dying.
poster
74
?
7.0
/1494/
80
/8/
72
/6/

1964: Brazil between weapons and books (2019)
We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.
poster
?
7.8
/22/
80
/2/

Betinho: Hope on the Line (2015)
Documentary on the life of Brazilian sociologist Herbert de Souza, engaged in the struggle against hunger, SIDA and military dictatorship.
poster
?
7.0
/11/
80
/1/

Caparaó (2007)
Documentary about the first attempt to fight the military dictatorship since 1964. On the mountains of Caparaó, in august 1966, a group of former officers tried to start a great national reaction against the new regime, in an attempt to replicate a "Sierra Maestra" on Brazilian lands.
poster
?
7.6
/39/
90
/1/
63
/3/

Seventy (2013)
In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.
poster
?
6.4
/25/
60
/1/

O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento (2006)
Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through satires and prominent figures in the cultural scene of the time passed through him. Archive scenes and music from the period seek to reconstitute the spirit of the 68-generation. The film has the participation of personalities such as Ziraldo, Zuenir Ventura, Arnaldo Jabor, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Heitor Cony, Fernando Gabeira, Betty Faria, Hugo Carvana, among others.
poster
?
7.5
/99/
65
/9/
57
/4/

Hércules 56 (2006)
Documentary featuring contemporary interviews with 5 of the revolutionary activists who kidnapped US ambassador Charles Embrick in August 1969 in Rio de Janeiro and some of the political prisoners who were freed from prison in exchange of the ambassador's liberty and flown out of Brazil to Mexico in an army cargo airplane "Hércules 56".
poster
63
?
6.5
/142/
63
/8/
66
/6/
3.1
/305/

After the Rain (2015)
Salvador, 1984. After twenty years of dictatorship, people go to the streets to ask for general elections. This will be a year of transformations for the country and the young Caio.
poster
50
?
5.5
/146/
50
/5/
43
/10/

Kuarup (1989)
This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.
poster
67
?
6.6
/153/
81
/7/
55
/8/
3.4
/247/

Hoje (2013)
Former political activist receives compensation from the Brazilian government for the disappearance of her husband, victim of the repression triggered by the Brazilian military dictatorship. With the money, she can buy her an apartment and free herself from this dreadful condition she lived for decades. At the moment of moving to the new home, however, a visit arises that forces her to review her entire life.
poster
?
8.2
/6/
80
/1/

GRIN - Rural Indigenous Guard (2016)
A Maxakali filmmaker brings out memories about the formation of the Indigenous Rural Guard (Grin) during the military dictatorship in Brazil, with reports of violence suffered by their relatives.
poster
41
?
6.3
/143/
20
/1/
42
/2/

Marighella: Retrato Falado do Guerrilheiro (2001)
The story, controversies, victories and defeats of Carlos Marighella, one of the leaders of the armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil.
poster
71
?
7.7
/95/
65
/8/
73
/11/

Brazil: A Report on Torture (1971)
The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government.
poster
?
10
/1/
50
/1/

1ª Conclat (1981)
N/A
poster
75
?
8.0
/34/
3.5
/209/

Libelu: Down With The Dictatorship (2020)
In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years later, what’s left of Libelu? What does adult life have in store for you after the revolutionary youth?
poster
?
8.0
/69/
61
/6/

Looking for Iara (2013)
Investigation of the life of ex-guerrilla Iara Iavelberg (1944-1971), a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a comfortable family life opting to engage in an armed struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship.
poster
?
7.5
/20/
10
/1/

Tempo de Resistência (2003)
N/A
poster
?
7.1
/62/
75
/4/
70
/2/

Soldados do Araguaia (2017)
During the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, a group of low-ranking soldiers were sent to the Amazônia in order to exterminate the so-called Guerrilha do Araguaia, an armed struggle movement that was against the dictatorship. After forty years, the survivors of this mission report their combat experiences for the first time.
poster
?
6.6
/95/
40
/2/
35
/2/

O Bom Burguês (1983)
True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for.
poster
?
50
/1/

Codinome Breno (2018)
Memory has drawers that hide our past, but fear and longing prevent us from accessing them.
poster
?
10
/1/
50
/3/

Tempo Sem Glória (1984)
Brazil, 1964, military dictatorship. The young Juca lives in countryside and is influenced by an outsider Uruguayan smuggler. This man happens to live with the adolescent and transmit to him what he knows about life and social relations. Later, influenced by Paula's life force, a young left-wing activist, Juca, progressively joins political activism and then into clandestine direct-action groups.
poster
67
?
6.5
/296/
73
/8/
64
/7/
3.4
/345/

Playing in the Dark (2004)
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
poster
77
?
8.1
/174/
80
/6/
75
/8/
3.6
/468/

Citizen Boilesen (2009)
A documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, financing it and participating in the tortures of political prisoners. Those actions later culminated in his assassination in 1971 by members of militant groups opposed to the regime.
poster
67
?
6.8
/578/
72
/39/
65
/34/
3.2
/2133/

Simonal (2019)
A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.
poster
?

Cárcere Privado
N/A
poster
?

It's Not the First Time We Fight for Our Love (2022)
The documentary tells the stories of persecution and violence when the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship acted against the LGBT population and how this same group constituted its resistance, becoming a fundamental subject of the redemocratization process. The coup of 64 did not establish this prejudice, but, during this period, the LGBT population was considered the enemy of the traditional family, morals and good customs.


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