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poster
Netflix
78
7.6
/2360/
74
/155/
75
/42/
3.7
/29004/
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
5.8
/967/
56
/59/
56
/30/
3.3
/7606/
84
/56/
40
/5/
67
/14/

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.
poster
Netflix
78
62
7.4
/2544/
77
/167/
72
/91/
3.9
/30422/
97
/34/
68
/8/
82
/10/
cc age 15+

Mars One (2022)
A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career.
poster
80
25
8.3
/174/
81
/25/
82
/12/
3.7
/1557/

Letter Beyond the Walls (2019)
Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaigns, passing through the stigma imposed on people living with HIV, the documentary shows how society faced this epidemic in its deadliest phase over more than two decades. With this historical approach as its base, the film looks at the way HIV is viewed in today's society, revealing a picture of persistent misinformation and prejudice, which especially affects Brazil’s most historically vulnerable populations.
poster
71
24
7.4
/235/
71
/10/
67
/13/
3.7
/1711/

Maranhão 66 (1966)
A report on Sarney's inauguration as the governor of the Maranhão state. His promises are heard alongside images of the grim reality.
poster
72
23
6.8
/111/
73
/3/
82
/4/
3.4
/1641/

The Battle (2025)
21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP.
poster
67
23
7.0
/258/
68
/16/
61
/14/
3.6
/1605/

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
60
19
6.0
/273/
58
/16/
63
/12/
3.1
/1429/

O Banquete (2018)
An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.
poster
69
12
7.2
/116/
58
/5/
78
/8/
3.4
/674/

Secret Friend (2022)
In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows the unfolding of the case, in a sequence of crises that puts Brazilian democracy at risk.
poster
?
90
/1/

Brizola, Anotações para uma História (2024)
N/A
poster
51
?
5.4
/232/
70
/5/
30
/2/

Lula (2024)
An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of beloved Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, chronicling his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison.
poster
?
10
/1/

Impressões do Brasil (1987)
"Impressões" rescues the history of the Brazilian press since 1808, when the "Correio Brasiliense" clandestinely reached Rio de Janeiro after being edited in London by Hipólito José da Costa, and spans until 1986. It's the first documentary to depict the history of the Brazilian journalistic press.
poster
?
100
/1/

The Flow (2024)
Amid an identity crisis, Fábio, 22 years old, a young black man from Cidade Tiradentes, reconnects with his past through a funk party with friends. On their way to the Fluxo, as these parties are called, he faces internal and external challenges that make him confront his feelings after his recent breakup. The film investigates the experiences of young people who live in the extreme east of São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil and considered one of the main pillars of funk history.
poster
?
7.2
/41/
63
/6/
70
/1/

Camocim (2017)
Every four years, the calm and peacefull Camocim de São Félix, a small town in Pernambuco (Brazil), is shaken, revealing an outpouring of joy, anger, hope and disappointment. During the municipal political campaign, the city splits into two, and everything seems to orbit around politics. In the middle of this political market, Mayara, 23, tries to make a "clean" campaign to elect his candidate and friend Cesar.
poster
?
80
/1/

Milton Santos, Pensador do Brasil (2001)
The interview, held on January 4, 2001, was the last given by Professor Milton Santos, who died from cancer on June 24 of the same year. The geographer is gone, but his thoughts remains. Its political and cultural ideals inspire the debate on Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. His statement is a true testimony, a lesson that the world can be better. Based on geography, Milton Santos performs a reading of the contemporary world that reveals the different faces of the phenomenon of globalization. It is in the evidence of contradictions and paradoxes that constitute everyday life that Milton Santos sees the possibilities of building another reality. He innovates when, instead of standing against globalization, proposes and points out ways for another globalization.
poster
?
100
/1/

Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador (2010)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

Anima Mea (2022)
When Mariana connects the Military Dictatorship's violent legacy as the structure behind Brazilian families, she embarks on an introspective journey to deconstruct her family life growing up in Brazil.
poster
86
?
7.7
/36/
100
/1/
100
/1/
3.5
/233/

Political Bodies (2022)
At a time when the far right is ascending to power around the world, the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections saw a surprising and unprecedented record of LGBT candidates. This film follows four young queer politicians during their electoral campaigns and reveals their struggle to affirm their rights to exist and be heard.
poster
?
20
/1/

Maria Quitéria Honra e Glória (2021)
While trying to take the enemy's trench, soldier Medeiros remembers his peaceful childhood in the licuri site when everyone knew him by his baptismal name, Maria Quitéria de Jesus.
poster
?
8.6
/20/
40
/4/

O Presidente Improvável (2022)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

Falácias (2021)
N/A
poster
?
40
/1/

Um Documentário Brasileiro (2021)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País (2002)
Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976.
poster
?
6.4
/8/

Okinawa/Santos (2020)
During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that 60% of the immigrants were from Okinawa. Based on testimonies from interviewees, this film reveals the hidden historical relationship between Okinawa and Brazil.
poster
?
7.9
/38/
100
/1/
60
/1/

Condor (2007)
Operation Condor was a secret agreement between the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the 1970s, with the knowledge of the CIA. These governments to shared information and violently repressed suspected left-wing subversives.
poster
?

We Want More Than Money (2025)
​​The film begins with the implementation of the Paulo Gustavo Law in São Manuel, a town of 40,000 residents in the countryside of São Paulo, to open a broader conversation: what happens when public funding reaches the cultural sector? And why is there still so much resistance to that? Through interviews with funded artists, cultural managers, policymakers, and spontaneous conversations with local residents, the film reveals a reality that goes beyond the borders of a single town, drawing a wider picture of the relationship between art, public policy, and everyday life. The documentary features historian Célio Turino, creator of the Pontos de Cultura program, and congresswoman Jandira Feghali, rapporteur of the Aldir Blanc Law. The screenplay is co-written by Turino and director bagadefente.
poster
?

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos (2016)
N/A
poster
?

Xondaros - Guarani Resistance (2023)
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police violence, fires, lack of infrastructure and sanitation, among others. Unable to live like their ancestors, their millenary culture is lost as it merges with the urban culture.
poster
?

Púlpito e Parlamento: Evangélicos na Política (2016)
From a small family from the outskirts of São Paulo to the National Congress, a documentary about how political discourse is born, grows and is founded among evangelicals.
poster
?

Ecos de Junho (2022)
N/A
poster
?

Roda Viva Roda Brasil (2019)
N/A
poster
?

TRABALHEI ATÉ ONTEM (2020)
N/A
poster
?

The Bolsonaro's Myth (2018)
To understand the obsession with federal deputy and presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and how his network of support is structured on the internet, VICE went to São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul to investigate its largest bases of support in the country.
poster
?

Aula de História (2019)
Documentary about the dictatorship and the politician Bolsonaro.


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