10 More Best Brazilian Movies

A prison inmate's cooking skill earns him protection, then real power, behind bars.

Directed by Marcos Jorge · 1h 53m

Two friends' bond fractures over their shared love for the same woman in a rough port city.

Directed by Sérgio Machado · 1h 38m · Rated R

Three favela kids uncover evidence of political corruption hidden inside a wallet found in a landfill.

Directed by Stephen Daldry · 1h 54m · Rated R

A stagehand on the rural rodeo circuit dreams of designing fashion instead.

Directed by Gabriel Mascaro · 1h 41m

A washed-up actor finds unlikely fame playing a children's TV clown by day.

Directed by Daniel Rezende · 1h 53m

A photocopy-shop clerk's crush pushes him toward increasingly reckless counterfeiting schemes.

Directed by Jorge Furtado · 2h 03m

A Black revolutionary leads armed resistance against Brazil's military dictatorship.

Two poor brothers become one of Brazil's biggest country-music duos despite their father's long odds.

Directed by Breno Silveira · 2h 12m

Two con men's small-town schemes spiral into a surreal, comic reckoning with the afterlife.

Directed by Guel Arraes · 1h 44m

A Brazilian mother fights to uncover the truth after her husband is disappeared by the military dictatorship.

Directed by Walter Salles · 2h 18m · Rated PG-13