Brazilian movies

List of the best Brazilian movies selected by visitors to our site: The Awakener, Yakuza Princess, Two Rabbits, Divine Love, Amazonia, Waste Land, On the Road, Zoom, The Pink Cloud, The Salt of the Earth.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryBrazil

Miguel is a federal agent, highly trained and skilled in weapons. After experiencing trauma in his personal life, he sets out on a journey of revenge, assuming the identity of a masked vigilante. The Awakener decides to do justice with his own hands by exterminating corrupt politicians.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrethriller, crime
CountryBrazil
CharactersMafia, Yakuza
PlotSkirmishes

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, crime
CountryBrazil
Duration01:41
CharactersLawyers, Criminals
PlotMoney, Hostage
StyleExciting, Serious, Disturbing

Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryBrazil, Uruguay, Denmark, Norway, Chile, Sweden
Duration01:39
PlotDancing, Religious, Computers, Divorce
PlaceParty
TimeFuture
StyleExplicit scenes

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreadventure, family, documentary
CountryFrance, Brazil
Duration01:22
CharactersMonkeys, Family
PlotSurvival, Adventure
PlaceAircraft, Jungle, Nature
StyleExciting, To cry, Fascinating, Serious

Amazonia is an adventure in 3D inside the largest rainforest on the planet: the Amazon rainforest. Chestnut is a Capuchin monkey domesticated who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone in the dense forest. The monkey needs to learn to live in freedom, in a new world where animals of all kinds: Jaguars, alligators, snakes, tapirs, hawks. Gradually, Brown learns to live in the forest, making new friends, especially the monkey Gaia, their fellow species.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredocumentary
CountryBrazil, United Kingdom
Duration01:39
CharactersPhotographers, Artists
PlotArt
StyleMakes me think, Intellectual, Serious

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryFrance, USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina
Duration02:20
CharactersWriters
PlotAdventure, Travel, Passion, Friendship, Snow
PlaceCemetery
StyleInspirational, Atmospheric, Explicit scenes

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon
CountryCanada, Brazil
CharactersWriters, Twins, Models, Photographers
PlotSkirmishes, Friendship, Internet
PlaceBeach, Night Clubs
StyleFascinating

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryBrazil
PlotSurvival, Fog, Mystery, Environmental disasters, Video Call
StyleFascinating

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.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredocumentary, biography, history
CountryFrance, Brazil, Italy
Duration01:50
CharactersPhotographers
PlotOn real events, Art
PlaceNature, Africa, France
StyleAtmospheric, Fascinating, Serious, Beautiful landscapes

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history ; international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes : a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Sebastião's Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryBrazil
CharactersDoctors, Family
PlotSuperpowers, Mystery, Death, Mystery, Ghosts
StyleTense, Creepy, Depressive, Disturbing

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg
Duration01:44
PlotPassion, Friendship
StyleRomantic, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Touching

The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, cartoon, history
CountryBrazil, USA
Duration01:38
CharactersHeroes, Immortals
PlotLove, Adventure, Supernatural, True love
StyleExciting, Fascinating, Touching, Serious

The film narrates the love between Janaína and a native warrior who, when dying, takes the form of a bird. For six centuries, the story of the couple survives through four stages in the history of Brazil: 1500, when the country was discovered by the Portuguese explorers, 1800, in events during slavery; 1970, during the high point of the military dictatorship, and 2096, when there will be a war over water.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryBrazil
Duration01:34
PlotAdventure, Travel, Revenge, Friendship, Breakup
StyleRomantic, Light

Recently divorced Adriana tries to get revenge on the woman who took her husband away from her by going on a European cruze along with them.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryBrazil

Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryBrazil
CharactersLovers
StyleAction, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Serious, Disturbing

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.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryBrazil
Duration01:26

A couple, Lauro and Renata, travels to a remote area surrounded by rain forest in Rio De Janeiro. Once they are there, Lauro is told by a bar owner that gruesome murders are taking place in that area. Intending to keep this information hidden from his girlfriend, Lauro and Renata discover they might be not alone when staying in a isolated house.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy
CountryBrazil
Duration01:44
CharactersFriends

The real first comedy about love.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryBrazil
CharactersTeens
PlotDancing, Family life
PlaceSchool
StyleTo cry, Serious

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryBrazil
Duration01:43
PlotSupernatural, Life after death
StyleBy books, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Serious

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

Markimdb: 8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryBrazil, Argentina, USA, Netherlands
Duration01:53
CharactersSpecial Forces, Students, Street children, Poor
PlotOn real events
StyleFascinating, Heavy, Depressive, Serious, For men

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.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, crime
CountryBrazil, France
CharactersDogs, Horses, Teachers
PlotFight, Death, Water, Weapon, Mystery
PlaceVillage, School
TimeNight
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Serious

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.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryBrazil
Duration02:25
StyleTouching

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryBrazil
Duration01:58
CharactersLesbians, Gay, Writers, Cats
PlotLove, On real events, Love triangle, Depression, Political
PlaceTrains, Psychiatric hospitals, New York
StyleFascinating, Touching, Serious

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredocumentary, music
CountryUSA, South Korea, Ethiopia, Japan, China, Egypt, Ghana, Italy, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Brazil, Denmark, Kenya, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Namibia
Duration01:42
CharactersGeisha
PlotTravel, Music, Religious, Art, Meaning of life
PlaceNature, Japan
StyleMind-altering, Philosophical, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Makes me think

Samsara is a word that describes the ever turning wheel of life. It is a concept both intimate and vast - the perfect subject for filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, whose previous collaborations include Chronos and Baraka, and who, in the last 20 years, have travelled to over 58 countries together in the pursuit of unique imagery. Samsara takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation that will transform viewers in countries around the world as they are swept along a journey of the soul. Through powerful images pristinely photographed in 70mm and a dynamic music score, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of the nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryBrazil
Duration01:28
CharactersClowns
PlotTravel
PlaceCircus
StyleFancy, Touching

The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama
CountryBrazil, Germany
CharactersTerminally ill, Sisters, Pianists
PlotLove, Dancing, Friendship, Depression, Fate
StyleRomantic, Psychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryArgentina, Brazil
Duration01:32
PlotPursuit, Love triangle
StyleRomantic

Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryBrazil, Uruguay, Netherlands
CharactersHorses
PlotDancing

Iremar is part of a rodeo troupe that tours the Brazilian northeast. His task is to send bulls into the arena. Intensely exciting physical scenes alternate with contemplative episodes that sketch a painterly portrait of the members of the troupe. Sublime images, which alternate with a less idyllic reality: the hard work amidst the cows. Jointly they form a fabulous choreography, against the background of a rapidly changing society.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror
CountryBrazil
CharactersZombie, Monsters
PlotSurvival
StyleAction, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing

A strange black spot approaches the coast, bringing death and destruction to a fishing village. In a desperate flight to escape the chaos, lonely Albino fights for the great love of his life at the risk of his own soul.





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