23 hottest Brazilian films of all times

O Brazilian cinema has a vast production of important films, acclaimed by critics and public hair.

Unfairly devalued by some, many national films are artistic manifestations essential to Brazilian culture, contributing to think about Brazil in a critical and independent way.

Also, we selected 23 unspecified productions that should be seen by all.

1. Central do Brasil

• Address: Walter Salles
• Year: 1998
• Where to attend: Globoplay

Central do Brasil é um desses films inesquecíveis. O longa-metragem, directed by Walter Salles, is an exciting story of friendship between a woman and a man. In the meantime, I managed to go to the plot, trying the history of a small Brazilian plot, drawing a portrait of a skewed Brazil.

Dora (brilliantly played by Fernanda Montenegro) is an ex-teacher who makes a living writing letters for illiterate people at the Central do Brasil station, not Rio de Janeiro.

One day one of his clients asked him to write a letter to tempt a reencounter as a pai de seu filho. More than a woman, I was hit by a man or woman and hurt by Dora. You are now part of the inner hair of the northeastern region in search of the Garoto family.

The film was indicated to Oscar and received numerous awards and tributes, becoming two icons of the national cinema.

2. Amarelo Manga

• Address: Cláudio Assis
• Year: 2002
• Where to attend: Globoplay

Awarded in various festivals, Amarelo Manga, directed by Cláudio Assis and roteiro by Hilton Lacerda, drawing an impeccable cast, with highlights for Matheus Nachtergaele and Dira Paes.

O entanglement presents parallel stories of impressive people from the periphery of Recife and appears as an important cenário or Hotel Texas.

Despite being the first longa-metragem do director, I was very much received and praised by the criticism, winning the award of a melhor film from the lower orçamento do Ministério da Cultura do Brasil.

3. Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol

• Address: Glauber Rocha
• Year: 1964
• Where to attend: Globoplay, Telecine Play

Icon of the “cinema novo” chamado, a production by acclaimed Baiano filmmaker Glauber Rocha and was recorded in the interior of Bahia in the 60s.

O entanglement begins by introducing Manoel and Rosa, a home not interior do sertão with a sophisticated and difficult life. Manoel, após to be unjustified by patrão, or kill the foge with Rosa.

You two joined a revolutionary religious group that fights against injustices, but ended up being persecuted by Antônio das Mortes, hired by latifundiários da region.

It is considered a national classic at the time of its launch representing the country, not the Cannes Festival and not the Oscar.

4. O Homem that Virou Suco

• Address: João Batista de Andrade
• Year: 1981
• Where to attend: Looke

Written and directed by João Batista de Andrade, the drama deals with the migration of the Northeast to the great cities, the inequality and exploration of two workers under capitalism.

Deraldo (played masterfully by José Dumont) is a popular poet from Paraíba who has just landed in São Paulo.

He is confused with Severino, an operator who has a revolt, kills or patron. Assim, Deraldo, with documents that prove his identity, he needs to escape from the police as he learns to survive the capital.

Or film ganhou prêmios nacionais e internacionais, as an important medal of ouro no Moscow International Festival of 1981. In the meantime, it was only exhibited in movie theaters, or that the director or director will show it at bairros associations, independently.

5. Stomach

• Address: Marcos Jorge
• Year: 2007
• Where to attend: Telecine Play

Two great Brazilian films two years 2000 é Stomach, directed by Marcos Jorge. With a cast in tune, he draws names such as João Miguel, Fabíola Nascimento, Babu Santana and Paulo Miklos.

It tells the story of Nonato, a northeastern raptor who goes to a large city looking for opportunities. On leaving, he began to work on a lanchonete and discovered a talent for culinary arts. He is hired by a small restaurant and learns to prepare sophisticated dishes.

Tudo is indo bem, but to paixão pela prostituta Íria will change the rumors of her life from him.

O longa was acclaimed for criticism and praise for public hair, for its humor, suspense and criticism. Received prêmios e indicações em festivais nacionais e estrangeiros, entering the list of 100 melhores filmes da Abraccine (Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema).

6. To Invisible Life

• Address: Karim Aïnouz
• Year: 2019
• Where to attend: Telecine Play

Or recent To Invisible Life, launched in 2019 and directed by Karim Aïnouz, it was praised by the critics that it was indicated to represent Brazil at the Oscar hair run in 2020.

A produção é baseada I do not free A Vida Invisível by Eurídice Gusmão (2016), from Pernambucana Martha Batalha. It tells about a costume of two irms that have their lives crossed by ignorance of the patriarchal system and end up taking opposite rumors.

It is starred by Julia Stockler and Carol Duarte, counting also with the participation of Fernanda Montenegro.

7. Bacurau

• Address: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
• Year: 2019
• Where to attend: Globoplay, Telecine Play

Uma das maiores revelações do cinema Brasileiro two last tempos é o longa-metragem Bacurau.

A production, assisted by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, participated in many festivals and received numerous prizes in Brazil and in the world. Even former North American President Barack Obama has been cited as one of his favorite films of 2020.

The plot passes the fictitious city of Bacurau, inland of the northeastern sertão, and presents a history of resistance, struggle and direct life.

A film that took or audiences to taste collectively and left important brands not national cinema.

8. Bug by Sete Cabeças

• Address: Laís Bobansky
• Year: 2000
• Where to attend: Netflix

Based on autobiography Song of two Damned, by Austregésilo Carrano Bueno, Bug by Sete Cabeças It deals with the real story of Neto (Rodrigo Santoro), a rapacious who is interned in a sanatorium depois who or pai finds a maconha cigar among his serious belongings.

Neto goes to live degrading situations, not a place and a destroyed family relationship.

Or film an important document on abuses in psychiatric institutions, on what drugs are and how countries and countries relate to each other.

O longa you have many positive reviews, mainly from Rodrigo Santoro and Gero Camilo atuação.

9. Or self gives compassion

• Address: Guel Arraes
• Year: 2000
• Where to attend: Telecine Play, Globo Play

This is the famous Brazilian film and an adaptation of a theatrical piece by Ariano Suassuna, set in 1955.

A production directed by Guel Arraes and released in 2000. Foi or first work of great successso two artists Matheus Nachtergaele and Selton Melo, we are the parents of João Grilo e Chicó.

Or entanglement is spent in the 30s and introduces diverse characters, exhibiting a critical comedy of society.

The film has been considered a classic and received many praise from the critics (including Ariano Suassuna himself), as well as several awards.

10. Cidade de Deus

• Address: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
• Year: 2002
• Where to attend: Telecine Play, Globoplay

Poucos know, more Cidade de Deus is an adaptation of a homonymous book by Paulo Lins, published in 1997.

Under the direction of Fernando Meirelles and co-director of Katia Lund, a production and innovative year to work on many unknown actors and more free interpretations, permitted or improvised.

The film addresses the violent daily life of two hills from Rio de Janeiro, revealing the rise and consolidation of crime organized in the Cidade de Deus.

It is a cinematographic work of great importance for the national cinema and part of the period called "cinema da retaken", when there is more cinematographic production not in the country.

11. Carandiru

• Address: Hector Babenco
• Year: 2003
• Where to attend: Telecine Play

Com base no livro Carandiru Station, Dr. Drauzio Varella, o longa-metragem was directed by Hector Babenco and premiered in 2003.

It exhibits the harsh reality of several people arrested at the São Paulo House of Detention, the largest penitentiary in Latin America, the scene of a terrifying massacre that assassinated 111 prisoners in 1992.

As filmagens foram feitas em vários locais, between them or their own prison, before being demolished.

Or entanglement was based on the memories of Drauzio Varella when he did not work locally and did not treat and prevent HIV / Aids.

Indicated and awarded in many festivals, this is a Brazilian film with a strong dramatic and realistic appeal that It exhibits impeccably a cruel experience of a marginalized and skewed plot of the Brazilian population.

12. What Hours Ela Volta?

• Address: Anna Muylaert
• Year: 2015
• Where to attend: Globoplay, Telecine Play

Com roteiro y direção da São Paulo filmmaker Anna Muylaert, this production was starred by Regina Casé and exhibits contradictions and social inequalities in Brazil.

Val, a northeastern migrant in São Paulo, is an entrepreneur of a rich family. When her filha Jessica is going to lend vestibular to the capital, Val will receive no quartinho of empregada.

Jéssica does not get used to the different treatment that the receivers and happens to bother the employers.

An essential film to understand labor dynamics and relationships between social classes in the country.

O longa was acclaimed for criticism and public hair, being exhibited at international festivals and winning several prizes.

13. O Som ao Redor

• Address: Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Year: 2013
• Where to attend: Telecine Play, Mubi

The same director of Bacurau, O Som ao Redor It is also a forceful film of drama and suspense, which has an impact. Chosen to represent Brazil at the Oscar run in 2014, he won several festivals and entered the list of two 100 melhores films by Abraccine.

A plot tells about a family of a media class that needs to be dealt with with the presence of a militia on their street. Assim, a produção addresses questões such as insurance, or middle and social contrasts.

14. Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho

• Address: Daniel Ribeiro
• Year: 2014
• Onde Assistir: Netflix, Now Online

This is a film that arises in decorrência do curta-metragem I don't want to turn back sozinho, by the same director, Daniel Ribeiro, and played by the same cast.

This is a story of adolescent romance, more like the differential of the uncovered homoaffective love experienced by a blind garoto.

In a delicate and simple way, it deals with complex questões sem cair no dramalhão. By isso I was received, exhibited in many festivities for the world and won several prizes.

15. Aquarius

• Address: Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Year: 2016
• Where to attend: Netflix, Now Online

Aquarius It is a film by Kleber Mendonça Filho with a co-production by Walter Salles and which has a beautiful interpretation by Sônia Braga.

A history is passed in Recife and exposes the life of Clara, a widow who lives in a prédio at the edge of the praia and occupies the last apartment that has not yet been sold to a builder. In order to demolish or immove a huge non-local building, Clara refuses to leave her alone.

Assim, or film deals with real estate speculation, a collective problem, to show the personal life of a woman who was attached to her history of her and the year that she built long ago.

It has a list of indicações e prêmios that the film received. Also, the production of an important legacy, the preservation of the Oceania property, where the burdens are caused.

16. Or Céu de Suely

• Address: Karim Aïnouz
• Year: 2006
• Where to attend: Globoplay

Or film is a co-production between Brazil, France and Germany and was directed and directed by Karim Aïnouz from Ceará.

Muito awarded nationally and internationally, Or Céu de Suely mapped to actress Hermila Guedes not role of Hermila. A young woman in the interior of Ceará and, after spending a season in São Paulo and later on, she returned to her hometown.

Disillusioned and sem dinheiro, Hermila decides to hold a raffle of her body to get to travel again, sometimes sozinha like filho, to tempt to draw not her country.

17. Master Building

• Address: Eduardo Coutinho
• Year: 2002
• Where to attend: Prime Video, Now Online, Telecine Play

Master Building é um documentary by Eduardo Coutinho released in 2002. A production shows the life of some residents of a huge property located in Rio de Janeiro, which has about 270 combined apartments.

Formed interviews of approximately 37 residents and residents of the local, resulting in a film that reveals a variety of personal histories, life costumes, dreams and frustrations.

The film was included in 2015 in the list of two 100 melhores by Abraccine.

18. Macunaíma

• Address: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
• Based on: Literary work by Mário de Andrade
• Year: 1969
• Where to attend: Telecine Play, Globoplay

Misturando fantasy, comedy and social criticism, Macunaíma It is based on the same name from Mário de Andrade. Direção was made by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade and his estia ocorreu in 1969.

It became a reference to the Brazilian cinema and integrated into the list of 100 melhores filmes da Abraccine. At the time of the launch, he was awarded the Brasília Festival and the Mar del Plata International Festival, in Argentina.

The narrative is supported through Macunaíma, a lendária figure that is born in kills like pele preta and not to decorate the plot becomes white. Face all kinds of challenge as an anti-heroic stance.

O great highlight of the production and the interpretation of Grande Othello, not the main role.

19. Limit

• Address: Mário Peixoto
• Year: 1931

Limit the only film by the poet Mário Peixoto, made when he was 22 years old and started in 1931 not at the Capitólio Cinema, not at Rio de Janeiro.

Considered one of the two most important films in the history of the national cinema, the production is in 1st place in the list of two most popular titles from Abraccine.

It shows through three people who row in a canoe not ocean, while one of the women tells their story of escape from prison.

The film is considered the first two of the experimental genre in Latin America. At the time of launching not received or due to recognition, it became a reference only later.

A production is cited by David Bowie as one of his favorite suas.

20. Ilha das Flores

• Address: Jorge Furtado
• Year: 1989
• Where to attend: Porta Curtas

This short 13-minute metragem was launched in 1989 and at the time, becoming a reference to the Brazilian documentary universe.

Rotated and directed by Jorge Furtado, or a film mix realidade com ficção and addresses various issues of collective and social interest, such as inequality, or food waste, or problem of lixo and da poverty. It also shows how the economy plays a fundamental and direct role in people's quality of life.

Acclaimed for criticism, the narrative exposes the themes in a simple and direct way, so much so that it was used very much in the classroom as a complement to two studies.

He received various awards and was seen as a Brazilian curta-metragem from the history of Abraccine.

21. Bye Bye Brazil

• Address: Cacá Diegues
• Year: 1980
• Where to attend: Prime Video, Globoplay

Launched in 1979, or longa de Cacá Diegues is a delicious comedy that exhibits a bunch of artists who travels from city to city making presentations for populations onde a television ainda não é uma reality.

This is a film that portrays a period of transition of Brazilian culture, between a "cinema novo" and an "Americanization", which would later be remembered. A sound trilha is also a highlight.

O longa was indicated in Palma de Ouro in 1980 and won the award of melhor director at the Havana Festival.

22. Or Invader

• Address: Beto Brant
• Year: 2002

This is a 2002 drama assassinated by Beto Brant that I had a lot of gratitude for in the 2000s.

It is about the story of three friends and partners who end up disengaging, or who face how Aníbal (Paulo MIklos) between their lives and becomes more and more close, the same against vontade deles.

Atuação de MIklos is memorable and the participation of rapper Sabotage (both atuação quanto na trilha sonora) also makes me stand out.

The film was quite awarded in important festivals and in the framework of the director's career.

23. April torn apart

• Address: Walter Sales
• Year: 2001
• Where to attend: Cinema Belas Artes

Com roteiro by Karim Aïnouz and directed by Walter Salles, or film and inspired not free Prilli i Thyer, do Albanês Ismail Kadere.

Starred by Rodrigo Santoro, not the main role, it tells the story of Tonho, a raptor not in the interior of the northeastern region, and not in the XX century. I come from a humble family that disputes with vizinhos for some terras.

It is a tradition that is written in mathematics and morram, giving continuity to a dynamic of vingança that is dragged through gerações. Assim, Tonho finds himself in his existential and family dilemma, where his life is hardly a moeda of truck.

The film was received and awarded, becoming a great work of Brailleiro cinema.

You can also be interested:

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• Filme Central do Brasil, by Walter Salles
• Auto da Compadecida, by Ariano Suassuna
• Film A Vida Invisível
• Film Bacurau