Best award winning movies with a plausible story from Brazil
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a plausible story from Brazil! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a plausible story from Brazil, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.7
2 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
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7.7
3 Elite Squad (2007)
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.
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- 2007-10-12 | Drama / Action
Cast
- Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira
Rating
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8.051
4 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.
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- 2014-04-10 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Ghilherme Lobo, Fábio Audi
Rating
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7.9
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5 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
6 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
7 Mars One (2022)
The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all of his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father’s ambitions despite secretly aspiring to study astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and ponders whether it’s time to leave home.
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- 2022-08-25 | Drama
Cast
- Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco
Rating
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7.4
8 A Wolf at the Door (2013)
Based on real events, and set in Rio de Janeiro, A Wolf at the Door is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown woman, police summon her husband, Bernardo, to the station for questioning. From that point on, the film takes increasingly sinister turns as it delves into the events that led to the girl’s kidnapping. With plot twists that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats, A Wolf at the Door is a darkly disturbing journey into the extreme limits of the human capacity for obsession and revenge.
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- 2013-10-03 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Leandra Leal, Milhem Cortaz
Rating
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7.4
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9 The Nightshifter (2019)
Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
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- 2019-10-10 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento
Rating
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7.0
10 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
