Best award winning movies with a gripping start from Brazil
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a gripping start from Brazil! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a gripping start from Brazil, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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.
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- 2019-08-29 | Mystery / Western
Cast
- Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino
Rating
7.7
2 Medusa (2021)
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 from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.
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- 2021-07-12 | Fantasy / Horror
Cast
- Mari Oliveira, Lara Tremouroux
Rating
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5.9
3 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.
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- 2021-01-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso
Rating
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7.7
4 City of God (2002)
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
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- 2002-08-30 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino
Rating
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8.4
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5 7 Prisoners (2021)
An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
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- 2021-10-22 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Christian Malheiros, Rodrigo Santoro
Rating
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7.048
6 Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
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- 2005-05-17 | Drama
Cast
- João Miguel, Peter Ketnath
Rating
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7.0
7 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.
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- 2010-10-08 | Drama / Action
Cast
- Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos
Rating
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7.8
8 The Last Forest (2021)
In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their threatened natural environment in the Amazon rainforest.
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- 2021-04-18 | Documentary / Drama
Cast
- David Kopenawa Yanomami, Ehuana Yaira Yanomami
Rating
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6.7
9 Call Me by Your Name (2017)
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.
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- 2017-09-01 | Romance / Drama
Cast
- Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer
Rating
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8.148
10 The Pink Cloud (2021)
Giovana and Yago are strangers who share a spark after meeting at a party. When a deadly cloud mysteriously takes over their city, they are forced to seek shelter with only each other for company. As months pass and the planet settles into an extended quarantine, their world shrinks, and they are forced to come to terms with an accelerated timeline for their relationship. With all their other interactions governed by screens, and with the strain of isolation setting in, Giovana and Yago struggle to reinvent themselves and reconcile the differences that threaten to tear them apart.
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- 2021-04-01 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Renata de Lélis, Eduardo Mendonça
Rating
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6.0
