Best award winning movies with a refreshing take from Brazil

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a refreshing take from Brazil! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a refreshing take from Brazil, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Bacurau (2019)

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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2019-08-29 | Mystery / Western

Cast

Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino

Rating

rating icon 7.679
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    savage
  2. Ranked #2 for
    westernized
  3. Ranked #2 for
    seemingly tacked on

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2 Private Desert (2021)

40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until eventually one guy pops up, saying he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.

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2021-11-25 | Drama

Cast

Antonio Saboia, Pedro Fasanaro

Rating

rating icon 6.887
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    brightly lit imagery
  2. Ranked #4 for
    scintillating
  3. Ranked #5 for
    retorting lines

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3 Mars One (2022)

The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all of his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father’s ambitions despite secretly aspiring to study astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and ponders whether it’s time to leave home.

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2022-08-25 | Drama

Cast

Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco

Rating

rating icon 7.456
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolute master
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beautifully illustrated
  3. Ranked #2 for
    hoary

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4 Call Me by Your Name (2017)

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

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2017-07-28 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet

Rating

rating icon 8.132
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    sad
  2. Ranked #48 for
    exceptional
  3. Ranked #71 for
    like Inside Llewyn Davis

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5 Occupants (2015)

A documentarian named Annie has roped her husband into a project that involves setting up cameras throughout their house. Complications arise when the cameras start showing that same couple in an alternate universe.

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2015-12-14 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Briana White, Michael Pugliese

Rating

rating icon 6.05
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #101 for
    time-loop
  2. Ranked #137 for
    purgatory
  3. Ranked #139 for
    spoon-feeding

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6 Waste Land (2010)

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

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2010-01-24 | Documentary

Cast

Vik Muniz

Rating

rating icon 7.638
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #112 for
    diorama
  2. Ranked #257 for
    blue-collar
  3. Ranked #273 for
    altruistic

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7 Beckett (2021)

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

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2021-08-04 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

John David Washington, Vicky Krieps

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    male lead cast
  2. Ranked #53 for
    lush green scenery
  3. Ranked #54 for
    race against the clock

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8 The Way He Looks (2014)

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

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2014-04-10 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Ghilherme Lobo, Fábio Audi

Rating

rating icon 7.947
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #135 for
    sensory overload
  2. Ranked #146 for
    Coming of Age
  3. Ranked #150 for
    emotional rollercoaster

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9 Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

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2010-10-08 | Drama / Action

Cast

Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos

Rating

rating icon 7.811
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #69 for
    masterpiece
  2. Ranked #72 for
    violent
  3. Ranked #96 for
    masterful story

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10 City of God (2002)

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

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2002-08-30 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino

Rating

rating icon 8.425
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #69 for
    like Scarface
  2. Ranked #71 for
    great sound effects
  3. Ranked #77 for
    masterpiece

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