21 hottest Brazilian films to watch on Netflix
Brazilian films are an excellent option for entertainment, being increasingly valued by streaming platforms.
For this reason, we select the best national cinema titles present on Netflix. São outstanding films, awards, cults or smart documents.
1. Stomach (2007)
- Address: Marcos Jorge
- Indicative classification: 16 years
Stomach We premiered cinemas in 2007 and traced the story of Raimundo Nonato (João Miguel). Northeastern immigrant, Nonato goes to the metropolis to seek work.
Ao chegar, he was hired to work in a bar and logo to discover the culinary taste, to make delicious coxinhas that became a sensation not a bar.
Percebendo or talent of Nonato, Giovani, or gift of an Italian restaurant of renome, or invite to be an assistant in no place. Or cozinheiro then develop ainda more serious gastronomic skills and pass to ter a salary melhor.
In his mute life, he begins to relate to Iria, a prostitute, and she turns off her girl, or that complicates her situation.
The film was indicated at festivals and received several awards and included two 100 melhores Brazilian films from Abraccine (Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema) on the list.
2. Febre do Rato (2012)
- Address: Cláudio Assis
- Indicative classification: 18 years
Febre do Rato é um film of 2012 directed by Cláudio Assis and roteiro by Hilton Lacerda. All in white, it presents a beautiful photograph and tells about Zizo (Irandhir Santos), an anarchist and answering poet.
He is responsible for the publication of a small independent journal called "Febre do Rato", a common term in Recife that means that someone is "out of control".
O poet has a quite libertarian perspective that gives life, experiencing or carnal desire in a very natural way. But everything transforms when Eneida meets her, an interesting and provocative woman who rejeita.
The film received great praise from the critics, winning 8 awards at the Paulínia de Cinema Festival in 2011.
3. Emicida: AmarElo - É Tudo Pra Ontem (2020)
- Address: Fred Ouro Preto
- Indicative classification: free
This is a documentary by the singer Emicida that reveals the backstage of the show performed at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo for the release of the album Love him. The artist supports the event to draw a costume of preta music in Brazil, exhibiting artistic references and valuing the enormous cultural legacy of two blacks and blacks in the country.
Second or own Emicida: "O documentary plays light, a part of the history of Brazil that was made invisible and to which we own Brazilians gain access".
O film deals with important social questões enquanto exhibits the songs of the singer. We have received public hair, being one of the most outstanding productions on Netflix in 2020.
4. O Som Ao Redor (2013)
- Address: Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Indicative classification: 16 years
Winner of various awards in various festivals, O Som Ao Redor, by Kleber Mendonça Filho (same director of Bacurau), premiered in 2013 and is also a member of the list of melhores national films da Abraccine.
A produção é um drama e suspense that addresses delicate issues such as violence, security, noise pollution and collective relationships.
A plot takes place in Recife and shows a group of residents who decide to hire private security services to take account of the street. But this decision will bring some consequences that fogem do control.
5. M8 - Quando a Morte Socorre a Vida (2020)
- Address: Jeferson De
- Indicative classification: 14 years
Launched in 2020, a production traces suspense, drama and social criticism to tell the story of Maurício, a young black man who enters the medical school through the quota system.
He was inspired not by the same name from the doctor Salomão Polakiewicz and shows the conflict of Maurício to prepare with the anatomy and body classrooms, called M-8, which will be studied by him and his colleagues.
Either film was received, winning or public hair award from Melhor Filme do Festival do Rio de Janeiro.
6. Cinema Aspirinas e Urubus (2005)
- Address: Marcelo Gomes
- Indicative classification: 14 years
Nesse filme de estrada (chamado também de road movie), history passes into the 40s not in the northeast. Nela accompany us Johann, a German refugee from the Second World War who travels from city to city selling aspirin.
In his adventures he meets Ranulpho, a northeastern man who seeks to go to Rio de Janeiro to tempt life. Or found two dois will transform their lives and two people a year.
Indicated to coincide with the Oscar de Melhor Filme em Língua Estrangeira in 2007, or film was highly praised, entering the list of melhores do cinema nacional da Abraccine.
7. Laerte-se (2017)
- Address: Lygia Barbosa da Silva, Eliane Brum
- Indicative classification: 14 years
An intimate and sensitive document that reveals the costume of cartunist Laerte Coutinho, showing how she, aged 58, discovered and became a transgender woman.
Direção é by Eliane Brum and Lygia Barbosa da Silva and a production was made in a partnership with Netflix, premiering in 2017 and having an oil of the public and critics.
8. Branco Sai, Preto Fica (2015)
- Address: Adirley Queirós
- Indicative classification: 12 years
Branco Sai, Preto Fica é um longa-metragem from 2015 that addresses racism and police violence and inserts documentary elements em meio à ficção.
It tells about the fateful episode of police repression in a dance of preta music in Ceilândia (DF), in 1986. On occasion, a couple of things would say "branco sai, preto fica" to order that just the blacks are not local to suffer humiliation and torture, or that they leave muitos feridos.
It was exhibited in the Brasília Festival and had its last reception, which became a highlight in this new year.
9. I Travel Because I Need Volto Because I Love You (2010)
- Address: Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz
- Indicative classification: 14 years
Two idealizers of Cinemas, Aspirinas and Urubus, or longa é também um film de estrada.
Exibe the emotional journey of José Renato (Irandhir Santos), a geologist who goes to work for the northeast and needs to cross or sertão to carry out his field investigations.
Or the film mixes images that are not fictionalized with directing hairs when it presents the voice of the personagem narrating their feelings, conflicts and emotions. Assim, a fairly innovative and experimental production was constituted.
Received critical reviews and was awarded in several important festivals.
10. I'm Saving Me For When or Carnaval Chegar (2019)
- Address: Marcelo Gomes
- Indicative classification: 10 years
This is a 2019 document directed by Marcelo Gomes that shows the reality of the population of Toritama, a small non-interior city of Pernambuco.
O place is known as a "capital of jeans" not Brazil, producing a huge quantity of products from this material. Assim, the residents passam or year all working at an accelerated pace to be able to stop just not carnival, when vão à praia.
The film was praised quite a bit for asking questions about labor reality and exploration, even though it is not seen as "autonomous".
11. Or Last Drive-in Cinema (2015)
- Address: Iberê Carvalho
- Indicative classification: 12 years
An exciting tribute to cinema, Or Last Drive-in Cinema, is a film by Iberê Camargo that has a brilliant performance by Othon Bastos.
The plot passes in Brasília and shows Almeida, donation of a cinema drive-in that is missing, while his wife, Fatima, is in fragile health. Or filho do casal, Marlombrando, returns to the city and needs to deal with the situation and reconnect with his family.
It was not the Gramado Film Festival of 2015, or it was awarded in various categories.
12. Tatuagem (2013)
- Address: Hilton Lacerda
- Indicative classification: 16 years
Engraved in Pernambuco, or longa Tatuagem This drama directed by Hilton Lacerda was released in 2013.
He presents a group of artists from the Chão de Estrelas trupe, led by Clécio and it is not last two years 70, in full military position. The group exhibits subversive shows and cheios de deboche, causing alvoroço and provoking morality of the epoch.
One day, to visit by chance or show, or young soldier Fininha meets Clécio and you live an intense paixão that transforms the lives of both.
Exhibited in the Gramado Festival, it was highlighted and won in various categories.
13. Like Nossos Pais (2017)
- Address: Laís Bodanzky
- Indicative classification: 14 years
Nesse drama by Laís Bodanzky, we accompany the life of Rosa (Maria Ribeiro), a woman of class, married and with two filhas.
Addresses or conflict between Rosa and her husband, lived by Paulo Vilhena, tracing pertinent issues such as machismo, monogamy, creation of two filhos and noise in communication. There is also a complicated relationship between Rosa and her mother, marked by resentments and segregated that she sees.
The film was acclaimed in the 2017 Gramado Festival, raising six awards for home, among them or from melhor film e melhor atriz for Maria Ribeiro.
14. Aquarius (2016)
- Address: Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Indicative classification: 16 years
Aquarius It was launched in 2016, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and a joint production between France and Brazil.
O drama with touches of suspense and addresses the question of real estate speculation and, second, or director, it is "about memory and about history, which are not highly valued in our culture."
It tells about Clara (Sônia Braga), a 65-year-old woman who lives in the last apartment in the Aquarius building, on Boa Viagem beach, not Recife. Clara refuses to sell her house to a construction company that she intends to demolish or buy to build a huge non-local building.
The film was a success for the public and critics, attending the Palma de Ouro at the Cannes Festival and winning relevant awards.
15. Hoje eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (2014)
- Address: Daniel Ribeiro
- Indicative classification: 12 years
This is the um longa-metragem that arises as a consequence of the curta I don't want to turn back sozinho, starred with the same cast and with the direction also of Daniel Ribeiro.
It shows the life and the transformations of Leonardo, a young blind man who lives or his first love. Leonardo pays for Gabriel, a new colleague of his class, and as he is going to leave years of his deserts and looking for independence.
A film that exhibits delicacy and sensitivity to questões related to uncovered homoaffective love and visual deficiency.
The public and critics received a great deal of production, which won several awards in important festivals such as the Berlim Festival and the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro.
16. O Olmo e a Gaivota (2015)
- Address: Petra Costa, Lea Glob
- Indicative classification: 12 years
This Portuguese-Brazilian documentary-drama was directed by Petra Costa and was launched in 2015. It shows in a sensitive and realistic way the conflicts and transformations of Olivia, an actress who is preparing to light peça Gaivota, from Tchekov and discovers that she is pregnant.
Exibe the relationship of the actress with her husband Serge and reveals little debated aspects of pregnancy, showing o The impact that a non-planned gestation may have on the life of a woman, both psychologically and professionally.
17. A Cidade Onde Envelheço (2017)
- Address: Marília Rocha
- Indicative classification: 12 years
To Cidade Onde Envelheço The first fictional film by Marília Rocha is shown in Minas Gerais, which has only been documented.
A story tells about young Portuguese duas living in Brazil. Francisca lived in Belo Horizonte for some years and one day received Elizabeth, a childhood friend who is visiting the country.
A narrative is constructed in a very fluid way, commemorating a little experience, or spontaneously drawing an approach as a documentary.
18. Season (2019)
- Address: André Novais Oliveira
- Indicative classification: 12 years
Film directed and directed by André Novais Oliveira, Season He was praised for criticism and won five awards at the Brasília Festival in 2018.
The plot introduces a health agent Juliana, who leaves her native city outside of Minas Gerais and goes to another city, in order to work not to control diseases such as dengue. Juliana had a hard time adjusting to her new life and felt that her marriage was killed by her departure.
Interesting history that deals with important issues such as racism and social and gender inequalities in a subtle way, placing these non-everyday themes of personagens and tracing or peripheral olhar for the center of plot.
19. Cidade Pássaro (2020)
- Address: Matias Mariani
- Indicative classification: 18 years
Nessa feita produção em parceria between Brazil and França, the narrative was built from the relationship of two Nigerian firms that are not in Brazil and meet again in the capital of São Paulo.
Amadi is a musician and comes to the country to seek or irmão, that brigou with family and leave home. He is determined to find Ikenna because he refuses to assume the role of first-born in the family and supports her.
The film introduces the city of São Paulo from a very peculiar point of view, exposing two immigrants to hard life amidst chaos of the metropolis.
20. Permanência (2015)
- Address: Leonardo Lacca
- Indicative classification: 16 years
Com direção de Leonardo Lacerda, Permanence It was released in 2015 and Irandhir Santos is not the role of Ivo, a photographer who is preparing his first solo exhibition.
I come from Pernambuco, Ivo is staying at the house of his ex-lover in São Paulo, or who will awaken conflicting feelings.
A film that focuses on the intimate and sentimental universe of two characters, moreover, it is about collective questões.
21. Mãe Só Há Uma (2016)
- Address: Anna Muylaert
- Indicative classification: 16 years
Based on a real case, Mãe Só Há Uma He tells the story of Pierre, a teenager who discovers that he was turned into maternity. Their breeding method is prey and it is necessary to adapt to the new family.
In my opinion, Pierre is also in search of his true identity and sexuality, or what makes things even more complex.
The film participated in the Berlim Festival and was indicated for the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro.
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