Best award winning movies with wasted potential from Brazil

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

1 Marighella (2021)

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

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2021-01-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso

Rating

rating icon 7.624
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    reconstituting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    idealized
  3. Ranked #1 for
    national hero

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2 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
    mysterious
  3. Ranked #2 for
    seemingly tacked on

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3 Aquarius (2016)

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

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2016-09-01 | Drama

Cast

Sônia Braga, Maeve Jinkings

Rating

rating icon 7.481
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #76 for
    masterpiece
  2. Ranked #130 for
    wonderful
  3. Ranked #153 for
    bloated

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4 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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5 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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6 Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2022)

The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life – since his childhood, when in 1808 he arrived coming from Portugal with his family, until he left in the dead of the night, in 1831, running away from Brazil.

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2022-09-01 | History / Drama

Cast

Cauã Reymond, Victoria Guerra

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #515 for
    giving willies
  2. Ranked #527 for
    multiple viewpoints
  3. Ranked #633 for
    liberating

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7 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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8 Holy Biker (2016)

In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives.

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2016-01-21 | Action / Romance

Cast

Sophie Charlotte, Cauã Reymond

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2516 for
    symmetry plots
  2. Ranked #2711 for
    propulsive
  3. Ranked #5266 for
    biker chick

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9 Boca (2010)

Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.

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2010-10-03 | Action / Crime

Cast

Daniel de Oliveira, Hermila Guedes

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #71 for
    True Crime
  2. Ranked #294 for
    seedy underworld
  3. Ranked #387 for
    sepia tone

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10 Tim Maia (2014)

Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.

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2014-10-30 | Drama / Music

Cast

Babu Santana, Robson Nunes

Rating

rating icon 7.237
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1354 for
    afterschool special
  2. Ranked #1782 for
    bawdy
  3. Ranked #6224 for
    live wire character

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