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1. Dom (2021– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Follows Victor, a police officer who dedicated his life to fight the narcotraffic war and to help his son Pedro, a drug addict who became one of the most wanted criminals in Brazil.
Stars: Gabriel Leone, Flávio Tolezani, Filipe Bragança, Raquel Villar
Votes: 2,778
2. Marighella (2019)
155 min | Action, Drama, History
Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the regime.
Director: Wagner Moura | Stars: Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Humberto Carrão
Votes: 56,040
3. Pelé (2021)
TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Looks back at the extraordinary 12-year period in which Pelé, the only man to win three World Cup titles, went from young superstar in 1958 to national hero in 1970; a radical yet turbulent era in Brazil’s history.
Directors: Ben Nicholas, David Tryhorn | Stars: Pelé, Muhammad Ali, Amarildo, Jorge Arantes
Votes: 5,665
4. Four Days in September (1997)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, History
Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Luiz Fernando Guimarães
Votes: 5,365 | Gross: $0.31M
5. The Edge of Democracy (2019)
TV-14 | 121 min | Documentary, History
Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.
Director: Petra Costa | Stars: Dilma Rousseff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, Sergio Moro
Votes: 15,724
6. Twenty Years Later (1984)
119 min | Documentary, History
A filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.
Director: Eduardo Coutinho | Stars: Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos
Votes: 1,694
7. Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
74 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Revolves around the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years, through Brazil's colonization, slavery, military regime and the future, in 2096, in the midst of wars for water.
Directors: Luiz Bolognesi, Jean Cullen De Moura, Marcelo Fernandes De Moura | Stars: Selton Mello, Camila Pitanga, Rodrigo Santoro, Carlos Alayeto
Votes: 1,953
8. They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
120 min | Drama
Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
Director: Leon Hirszman | Stars: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bete Mendes
Votes: 1,821
9. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
PG | 110 min | Drama
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
Director: Cao Hamburger | Stars: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk, Paulo Autran
Votes: 6,658 | Gross: $0.76M
10. Tattoo (2013)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
The romance between a 18-year-old soldier and the cultural ringleader of an anarchist cabaret.
Director: Hilton Lacerda | Stars: Maria de Jesus Baccarelli, Jesuíta Barbosa, Ariclenes Barroso, Arthur Canavarro
Votes: 2,172
11. Torre das Donzelas (2018)
97 min | Documentary
"The Virgin's Tower" - Memoires of a group of rebel women that were imprisioned by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 60's.
Director: Susanna Lira | Stars: Dilma Rousseff, Ana Bursztyn-Miranda, Maria Aparecida Costa, Rita Sipahi
Votes: 108
12. Simonal (2018)
105 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A spectacular rise and a hard fall. So it can be resumed the life of Simonal. Phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the dictatorship.
Director: Leonardo Domingues | Stars: Fabrício Boliveira, Isis Valverde, Leandro Hassum, Caco Ciocler
Votes: 519
13. Zuzu Angel (2006)
108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the true story of Zuzu Angel, a famous Brazilian fashion designer in the 70's, who searches for her son Stuart, a member of a leftist university group who suddenly disappears ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Rezende | Stars: Patricia Pillar, Daniel de Oliveira, Leandra Leal, Alexandre Borges
Votes: 1,046
14. 400 Against 1: A History of Organized Crime (2010)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The real story behind creation of Comando Vermelho (Red Commando), powerful criminal organization terrorized Rio de Janeiro for several decades.
Director: Caco Souza | Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabrício Boliveira, Daniela Escobar, Branca Messina
Votes: 594
15. Baptism of Blood (2006)
110 min | Drama, History
During the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship. In the 60s, the Dominican friars Tito, Betto, Fernando and Ivo help leftist organizations. However, they are ... See full summary »
Director: Helvecio Ratton | Stars: Caio Blat, Daniel de Oliveira, Léo Quintão, Odilon Esteves
Votes: 750
16. Kuarup (1989)
119 min | Drama
From contemplation to awakening, from revolt to sacrifice, the inner journey of a young Jesuit priest, Nando, into the depths of the jungle, into the depths of himself. Amongst the Xingu ... See full summary »
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Taumaturgo Ferreira, Fernanda Torres, Cláudio Mamberti, Umberto Magnani
Votes: 125
17. Amor e Revolução (2011–2012)
Drama, Romance, War
In the lead years of repression, the struggle for democracy and freedom intertwines the lives of a student and military leader.
Stars: Graziella Schimitt, Claudio Lins, Licurgo Spinola, Reinaldo Gonzaga
Votes: 24
18. The Day That Lasted 21 Years (2012)
77 min | Documentary, History, Thriller
Provides evidence of manipulation and investment funding from the U.S. government to carry out the Brazilian military coup that occurred in 1964.
Director: Camilo Tavares | Stars: Auro de Moura Andrade, Robert Bentley, Júlio de Sá Bierrenbach, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
Votes: 468
19. Cabra-Cega (2004)
107 min | Drama
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
Director: Toni Venturi | Stars: Leonardo Medeiros, Debora Duboc, Jonas Bloch, Michel Bercovitch
Votes: 282
20. Hoje (2011)
90 min | Drama, History, Romance
Former political activist receives compensation money for her husband's disappearance, during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). She is now able to afford a new home. While moving in, a visitor forces her to review her entire history.
Director: Tata Amaral | Stars: Denise Fraga, César Troncoso, João Baldasserini, Lorena Lobato
Votes: 146
21. Marighella (2012)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary about the member of the brazilian Communist Party, Congressman elected by vote, and later on enemy number one of the brazilian dictatorship of 1964, Carlos Marighella.
Director: Isa Grinspum Ferraz | Stars: Carlos Augusto Marighella, Lázaro Ramos, Miguel Arraes, Hennig Boilesen Jr.
Votes: 3,483
22. Brazil: A Report on Torture (1971)
60 min | Documentary
While living in the exile, students and civilians share their stories about the torture and violence they suffered as victims of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Directors: Saul Landau, Haskell Wexler | Stars: Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, Frei Beto, Jean Marc von der Weid
Votes: 83
23. Lamarca (1994)
130 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The real story of a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
Director: Sergio Rezende | Stars: Paulo Betti, Carla Camurati, José de Abreu, Deborah Evelyn
Votes: 444
24. O Bom Burguês (1983)
99 min | Crime
True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high ... See full summary »
Director: Oswaldo Caldeira | Stars: José Wilker, Betty Faria, Jardel Filho, Christiane Torloni
Votes: 89
25. Hércules 56 (2006)
93 min | Documentary
Documentary featuring contemporary interviews with 5 of the revolutionary activists who kidnapped US ambassador Charles Embrick in August 1969 in Rio de Janeiro and some of the political ... See full summary »
Director: Silvio Da-Rin | Stars: Gregório Bezerra, José Dirceu de Oliveira, Jose Ibrahim, Ivens Marchetti
Votes: 93
26. ABC da Greve (1990)
75 min | Documentary
A detailed look at the events that led to the continuous strikes that shut down many factories during the still repressive days of the military regime. The workers union, led by syndicalist... See full summary »
Director: Leon Hirszman | Stars: Lélia Abramo, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Vinicius de Moraes, Ferreira Gullar
Votes: 207
27. Soldados do Araguaia (2017)
74 min | Documentary
Between 1972 and 1975, the Brazilian Army sent thousands of soldiers on a secret mission to the heart of the Amazon Forest to exterminate the Araguaia Guerilla, Brazil's most radical opposition movement to the dictatorial Military Govt.
Director: Belisario Franca
Votes: 59
28. Setenta (2013)
96 min | Documentary, Biography, History
December 1970: Brazil is under a military dictatorship. The Swiss ambassador in Brazil is kidnapped by a group of rebels. 40 days later they trade the ambassador by seventy political ... See full summary »
Director: Emilia Silveira | Stars: Wilson Barbosa, Nancy Mangabeira Unger, Vera Rocha Dauster, Ismael J. de Souza
Votes: 31
29. 1964: O Brasil Entre Armas e Livros (2019)
127 min | Documentary, History
An alternative view of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship and the events leading up to its inception in 1964.
Directors: Lucas Ferrugem, Filipe Valerim | Stars: Auro de Moura Andrade, Hélio Beltrão, Lucas Berlanza, Petr Blazek
Votes: 773
30. Libelu: Abaixo a Ditadura (2021)
90 min | Documentary
The student trend Liberdade e Luta, Libelu, emerged in 1976 and gained fame for being the first group to resume the slogan "below the dictatorship" after the AI-5.
Director: Diógenes Muniz | Stars: Alex Antunes, Reinaldo Azevedo, Mino Carta II, Erasmo Dias
Votes: 29
31. Histórias que nosso Cinema (não) Contava (2017)
80 min | Documentary
A historical review of the military dictatorship in Brazil only trough images and sounds from films that belong to the pornochanchada genre, a kind of erotic film that was the most seen and most produced during that period.
Director: Fernanda Pessoa | Stars: Neuza Amaral, Arlindo Barreto, Mário Benvenutti, Roberto Bonfim
Votes: 243
32. Beyond Citizen Kane (1993 TV Movie)
93 min | Documentary
Details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses its influence, power and political connections.
Director: Simon Hartog | Stars: Leonel Brizola, Chico Buarque, Walter Clark, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Votes: 601
33. Cidadão Boilesen (2009)
92 min | Documentary
A documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, financing it and ... See full summary »
Director: Chaim Litewski | Stars: Hennig Boilesen Jr., Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jarbas Passarinho, Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns
Votes: 154
34. After the Rain (2013)
95 min | Drama, History, Music
1984, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It all starts with a feeling that anything is possible. After twenty years of dictatorship, the population goes out onto the streets to demand presidential ... See full summary »
Directors: Marília Hughes Guerreiro, Cláudio Marques | Stars: Zeca Abreu, Ricardo Burgos, Paula Carneiro, Talis Castro
Votes: 138
35. Não é a primeira vez que lutamos pelo nosso amor (2022)
104 min | Documentary
The unprecedented stories of persecution and violence with which the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship acted against the LGBT population and how this same group constituted its resistance.
Director: Luis Carlos de Alencar
36. Em Busca de Iara (2013)
91 min | Documentary
Through a personal investigation of her niece, Mariana Pamplona, the film recover the life of the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg. She was a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a ... See full summary »
Director: Flavio Frederico | Star: Erenice Lohan
Votes: 68
37. A Memória que me Contam (2012)
95 min | Drama
A group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away.
Director: Lúcia Murat | Stars: Clarisse Abujamra, Otávio Augusto, Eduardo Cravo, Ricardo Dantas
Votes: 253
38. 1ª Conclat - Conferência Nacional da Classe Trabalhadora (2010)
Documentary
Praia Grande, São Paulo coast, August 1981: thousands of city and field workers gather for the first time during the military dictatorship to discuss the political, economic and social situation of Brazil.
Director: Adrian Cooper | Star: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
39. Orgulho Além da Tela (2021)
Documentary
From archive images and testimonials of Globo's talents and the public, the documentary traces the chronology of the representation of LGBTQIA+ characters in Brazilian soap operas.
Votes: 24
40. Marighella, Retrato Falado do Guerrilheiro (2001 Video)
55 min | Documentary
Documentary with testimonies and reproduction of reports about Carlos Marighella, one of the leaders of the armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1970s.
Director: Silvio Tendler | Stars: Takao Amano, Othon Bastos, Clara Charf, Carlos Eugênio Da Paz
Votes: 139
41. O Sol - Caminhando Contra o Vento (2006)
95 min | Documentary
Documentary telling the story of short-lived newspaper "O Sol", an alternative press item which hit the streets during the repressive years of military dictatorship in Brazil, more ... See full summary »
Directors: Martha Alencar, Tetê Moraes | Stars: Márcio Moreira Alves, Gilberto Braga, Chico Buarque, Hugo Carvana
Votes: 25
42. Cárcere Privado (2012)
20 min | Short, History
Decio is hunted down by the military dictatorship and skulk himself in the apartment of Bianca, where he has to keep absolute silence when she goes out to work.
Directors: Oscar R. Júnior, Melissa Lipinski | Stars: Marcello Trigo, Gláucia Grígolo, Raul Ferreira, Luigi Cutolo
43. #PartiuBrasil (2017)
Animation, History
Travel through the history of Brazil in a fun and dynamic way, visiting several historical events in each episode.
Votes: 28
44. Em Nome dos Pais (2020– )
Documentary
Matheus Leitão's parents were arrested and tortured during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, this story has become his obsession. Forty-two ... See full summary »
Star: Matheus Leitão
45. Tempo de Resistência (2003)
110 min | Documentary
"Tempo de Resistência" is a documentary with highlights of the darkest period of the Brazilian history, and uses footages and interviews to discloses to the youngest generations and recall ... See full summary »
Director: André Ristum | Stars: Takao Amano, Dom Angélico Bernardino, Vanderlei Caixe, Denize Crispim
Votes: 19
46. Caparaó (2007)
77 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary about the first attempt to fight the military dictatorship since 1964. On the mountains of Caparaó, in august 1966, a group of former officers tried to start a great national ... See full summary »
Director: Flavio Frederico
Votes: 11
47. Tempo Sem Glória (1984)
100 min | Drama
A young man from the countryside who, in 1964, lives in the country and is influenced by an Uruguayan smuggler. This man happens to live with the adolescent and transmit to him what he ... See full summary »
Director: Henrique de Freitas Lima | Stars: Alexandre Correa, Sérgio Paiva, Heloisa Palaoro
48. A Coffee and four seconds (2018)
15 min | Short
Two military gather for coffee thirty years after the end of the Brazilian dictatorship to rethink their actions
Director: Cristiano Requião | Stars: Osmar Prado, Samir Murad
49. Codinome Breno (2018)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Manoel Batista | Stars: Manoel Batista, Dilma Rousseff
50. Betinho - A Esperança Equilibrista (2015)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary about the sociologist and activist Herbert de Souza (1935-1997), the Betinho, who had fragile health, but the strength of the great idealists. He fought permanently against injustice and for life.
Director: Victor Lopes
Votes: 20