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1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan

Votes: 533,247 | Gross: $72.86M

2. La La Land (2016)

PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.

Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons

Votes: 671,740 | Gross: $151.10M

3. City of God (2002)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen

Votes: 801,266 | Gross: $7.56M

4. The Aviator (2004)

PG-13 | 170 min | Biography, Drama

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly

Votes: 384,140 | Gross: $102.61M

5. Rio (2011)

G | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.

Director: Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Karen Disher

Votes: 248,581 | Gross: $143.62M

6. Moonraker (1979)

PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel

Votes: 108,823 | Gross: $70.31M

7. On the Town (1949)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller

Votes: 18,787

8. Black Orpheus (1959)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

Director: Marcel Camus | Stars: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia

Votes: 12,263

9. The Clone (2001–2002)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A young man who has been secretly cloned by his godfather scientist falls in love with a Moroccan girl from a rigorous family.

Stars: Murilo Benício, Giovanna Antonelli, Vera Fischer, Reginaldo Faria

Votes: 3,354

10. Saludos Amigos (1942)

Passed | 42 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.

Directors: Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson | Stars: Fred Shields, José Oliveira, Lee Blair, Mary Blair

Votes: 7,920

11. Melody Time (1948)

Approved | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day, Laverne Andrews

Votes: 6,945

12. Girls from Ipanema (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Romance

After her husband's disappearance, Maria Luiza opens a Bossa Nova club in defiance of her normally conservative demeanor.

Stars: Maria Casadevall, Pathy Dejesus, Mel Lisboa, Leandro Lima

Votes: 3,880

13. 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: 5,366 | Gross: $0.31M

14. Freddy (2023)

109 min | Biography, Drama

The life of Dominican comedian, writer, TV producer and philanthropist Freddy Beras-Goico.

Director: Giancarlo Beras-Goico | Stars: Héctor Aníbal, Juan Luis Guerra, Ruairi Rhodes, Jandy Ventura

Votes: 41

15. Samba (1965)

106 min | Drama, Musical

Brazilian singer Laura Monteiro is murdered in her dressing-room by her jealous lover João Fernandes de Oliveira when he discovered she was cheating on his with Assis and planning to escape... See full summary »

Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: Sara Montiel, Marc Michel, Fosco Giachetti, Carlos Alberto

Votes: 84

16. Three Cases of Murder (1954)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.

Directors: David Eady, George More O'Ferrall, Wendy Toye, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Emrys Jones

Votes: 1,132

17. Sound of Noise (2010)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Directors: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson | Stars: Bengt Braskered, Sanna Persson, Magnus Börjeson, Johannes Björk

Votes: 9,890 | Gross: $0.02M

18. America (2005)

60 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Sol, a dreamy young woman from the carioca suburbs, attempts to emigrate to the United States, believing in a better life with better opportunities.

Stars: Deborah Secco, Murilo Benício, Camila Morgado, Caco Ciocler

Votes: 420

19. Tito and Me (1992)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.

Director: Goran Markovic | Stars: Dimitrije Vojnov, Lazar Ristovski, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Anica Dobra

Votes: 6,130 | Gross: $0.14M

20. Road to Rio (1947)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard

Votes: 3,524 | Gross: $4.50M

21. Down Argentine Way (1940)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 1,365

22. Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

60 min | Crime, Mystery

On the trail of a singer who killed the man she loved in Honolulu, Charlie finds her stabbed to death when he ultimately catches up to her in Rio.

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Cobina Wright, Ted North

Votes: 1,470

23. Let's Dance (I) (2006– )

Family, Game-Show, Music

German version of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing. Features German B or C-list celebrities teaming up with professional dancers to compete against each other in a dancing competition.

Stars: Joachim Llambi, Kathrin Menzinger, Motsi Mabuse, Jorge Gonzalez

Votes: 160

24. Vacation Temptations (1972)

76 min | Comedy

Massage parlors are sprouting up like mushrooms all over the world. Even in reputable newspapers, masseuses advertise their ability to loosen even the strongest and stiffest muscles. This ... See full summary »

Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Rena Bergen, Christa Free, Karin Hofmann, Elke Boltenhagen

Votes: 86

25. Slick Hare (1947)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Humphrey Bogart visits the Mocrumbo Restaurant. He orders fried rabbit and Elmer Fudd has twenty minutes to serve it.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Dave Barry, Robert Clampett

Votes: 1,253

26. A Story of Yonosuke (2012)

160 min | Drama

Were people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?

Director: Shûichi Okita | Stars: Ayumi Ito, Kengo Kôra, Gô Ayano, Jun Kunimura

Votes: 2,312

27. The Wise Ones (2015– )

40 min | Drama

Made up of four independent stories interconnected by the characters, the show reminisces about growing old, but also about rediscovering and reinventing ourselves to enjoy the best years of our lives.

Stars: Othon Bastos, Karin Rodrigues, André Abujamra, Eucir de Souza

Votes: 52

28. Innocent Steps (2005)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In pursuit of a triumphant comeback, a former dancing star imports a teenage phenom to play the role of his partner, only to discover that she barely has any experience. Can he train her to dance like a champ in just three months?

Director: Young-hoon Park | Stars: Moon Geun-young, Keon-hyeong Park, Song Ha-yoon, Kim Ji-yeong

Votes: 1,558

29. Orfeu (1999)

110 min | Crime, Drama, Music

In a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.

Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Toni Garrido, Patrícia França, Murilo Benício, Zezé Motta

Votes: 954 | Gross: $0.10M

30. It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993)

G | 87 min | Documentary

"It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles" is a 1993 documentary feature about Orson Welles's ill-fated Pan-American anthology film "It's All True," shot in 1941-42 but never completed.

Directors: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Orson Welles, Richard Wilson | Stars: Manuel 'Jacare' Olimpio Meira, Jeronimo André De Souza, Raimundo 'Tata' Correia Lima, Manuel 'Preto' Pereira da Silva

Votes: 864

31. Chega de Saudade (2007)

95 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

In an old-time dance hall (the "gafieira") in São Paulo, one evening is all it takes to meet different characters as they remember the past, live the present, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, naturally, dance.

Director: Laís Bodanzky | Stars: Leonardo Villar, Tônia Carrero, Cássia Kis, Betty Faria

Votes: 504

32. Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995)

91 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A biography of the Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti frutti hat. She came to the US as the "Brazilian Bombshell" and was a Broadway and Hollywood star in the 1940s.

Director: Helena Solberg | Stars: Helena Solberg, Eric Barreto, Cynthia Adler, Mario Cunha

Votes: 311

33. Chica de Río (2001)

TV-MA | 102 min | Comedy

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.

Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Vanessa Nunes, Santiago Segura, Patrick Barlow

Votes: 1,014

34. Brazil (I) (1944)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A songwriter struggles to produce another successful hit for the National Brazilian song contest.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston

Votes: 220

35. Maine Ocean (1986)

130 min | Comedy

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Rozier | Stars: Rosa-Maria Gomes, Abdel Kedadouche, Luis Rego, Bernard Menez

Votes: 320

36. República dos Assassinos (1979)

100 min | Crime, Drama

In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, ... See full summary »

Director: Miguel Faria Jr. | Stars: Tarcísio Meira, Sandra Bréa, Anselmo Vasconcelos, Silvia Bandeira

Votes: 97

37. Blame It on the Samba (1948)

6 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Donald Duck and Jose Carioca, both literally blue, stumble across the Cafe do Samba, whose proprietor is determined to cheer them up with samba music. After they get their color back, they ... See full summary »

Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Ethel Smith, The Dinning Sisters, Pinto Colvig, Ginger Dinning

Votes: 330

38. Quase Dois Irmãos (2004)

102 min | Drama

The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was ... See full summary »

Director: Lúcia Murat | Stars: Caco Ciocler, Flavio Bauraqui, Werner Schünemann, Antônio Pompêo

Votes: 651

39. Rio, Zona Norte (1957)

83 min | Drama, Music

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.

Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Grande Otelo, Jece Valadão, Malu Maia, Maria Petar

Votes: 554

40. Seven Days Ashore (1944)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Dooley Wilson

Votes: 211

41. Garrincha: Estrela Solitária (2003)

106 min | Drama

The life of Brazilian soccer player Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arched legs and passions for women and ... See full summary »

Director: Milton Alencar | Stars: André Gonçalves, Taís Araújo, Henrique Pires, Alexandre Schumacher

Votes: 268

42. W'ere on Our Way to Rio (1944)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Popeye and Bluto sing the title song on their way to Rio riding on the back of a donkey. In Rio, they visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl. Both of ... See full summary »

Directors: Izzy Sparber, James Tyer | Stars: Dave Barry, Jack Mercer

Votes: 161

43. The Naked Sun (1984)

107 min | Drama

A love story about an honest businessman in dire straits.

Director: Tonino Cervi | Stars: David Brandon, Tânia Alves, Paolo Bonacelli, Carlos de Carvalho

Votes: 40

44. Tabu (1982)

79 min | Comedy, Musical

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.

Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Caetano Veloso, Colé Santana, José Lewgoy, Norma Bengell

Votes: 105

45. The Gay Gaucho (1933)

Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

This one takes place in either Argentina or Texas or Mexico, depending on whether the scenes show gauchos or charros or cowboys, but Cubby is in a desert someplace washing up to go courting... See full summary »

Directors: Rollin Hamilton, Thomas McKimson, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising

Votes: 76

46. To Fool a Thief (2013)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Two professional thieves will have to work together to steal a unique bottle of wine kept safe inside a bank in Mendoza.

Director: Ariel Winograd | Stars: Daniel Hendler, Valeria Bertuccelli, Martín Piroyansky, Pablo Rago

Votes: 776

47. Elle cause plus... Elle flingue (1972)

87 min | Comedy

Rosemonde, known as "the Princess", reigns over a shanty town in Paris. She meets Herbert, a journalist, who comes to the region to investigate the pollution.

Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Roger Carel

Votes: 274

48. Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (1941)

Approved | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Charles Lang, Leon Errol, Helen Parrish, Lupe Velez

Votes: 52

49. Samba-Mania (1948)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Musical, Romance

Night club owner Russ Vincent hires boogie-woogie dancer Betty Hannon for a spot in a South American revue which is headed by Lita Baron (as Isabelita). The latter is wary of Hannon's ... See full summary »

Director: Billy Daniel | Stars: Lita Baron, Russ Vincent, Billy Daniel, Betty Hannon

50. Cat Skin (1962)

12 min | Documentary, Short

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.

Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Stars: Paulinho, Riva Nimitz, Henrique César, Milton Gonçalves

Votes: 245