City of God (2002)

Director: Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund

Starring: Seu Jorge, Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Douglas Silva

Celebrated with international acclaim, this powerful true story of crime and redemption has won numerous awards at festivals around the world. The str... Read more

Central Station (1998)

Director: Walter Salles

Starring: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius De Oliveira, Marilia Pera

This extremely well made, touching Brazilian drama follows a young boy whose mother is killed near Rio de Janeiro's central train station. Befriended... Read more

Carandiru (2003)

Director: Hector Babenco

Starring: Rodrigo Santoro, Milton Goncalves, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Maria Luisa Mendonca...

Carandiru, Brazil's largest correctional facility. Built to house 3,000 inmates, it is home to over 7,000 murderers, rapists, drug addicts and crimina... Read more

Cafe de los Maestros (2009)

Director: Miguel Kohan

The story of the legendary maestros from the golden age of Tango. This film is an introduction to the once globally-popular form of music and dance, a... Read more

Bus 174 (2002)

Director: Jose Padilha

On June 12, 2000 a lone gunman, seemingly insane or drugged, hijacked a bus in Rio de Janeiro as authorities - and television cameras - surrounded the... Read more

Brasileirinho (2005)

In Rio in the late 1800s, Brazilian musicians started to blend European melodies, Afro-Brazilian rhythms and a melancholic interpretation of the nativ... Read more

Blindness (2008)

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McK...

A big city falls prey to a mysterious plague of blindness in Fernando Meirelles' ('City of God'; 'The Constant Gardener') adaptation of Jose Saramago'... Read more

Black Orpheus (1959)

Director: Marcel Camus

Starring: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lea Garcia

This extravagant explosion of colour and sounds is a modern re-enactment of Orpheus and Eurydice's tragic tale against the splendid backdrop of Carniv... Read more

Black God, White Devil (1964)

Director: Glauber Rocha

Starring: Joao Gama, Geraldo Del Rey

A masterwork, 'Black God, White Devil' blends mysticism, religion, and popular culture, into a powerful, bleak and cruel epic, that unashamedly expres... Read more

Behind the Sun (2001)

Director: Walter Salles

Starring: Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Rodrigo Santoro

Walter Salles ("Central Station") helmed this powerful drama set in the Brazilian badlands in 1910, where a feud between two families boils over into... Read more