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Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amidst conflicts with her neighbors,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernanda Montenegro

After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lázaro Ramos

Set in Rio de Janeiro's most notorious favelas, the underprivileged youth share their perspective on the extremely popular, pornographic favela funk...

Genre: Documentary

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Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Big Jaum

The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police...

Genre: Documentary

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No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela do Brasil, onde moram mais de 300.000 pessoas -...

Genre: Documentary

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Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thiago Martins

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Priscila Assum

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clément Dumais

Sound is a journey. Each note opens a door, closes another. Instruments chart the course. Through a poetic and immersive lens, Sou Jazz shines a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Evandro Santos

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Brunetti

Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.

Genre: Documentary

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Rio de Janeiro. September, 2008. Three men stalk the gloomy back-alleys of the city's notorious slums. Spiderman, a 28-year-old drug lord, embarks on...

Genre: Documentary

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The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that protect...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carlinhos Brown

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ericles Carmo

A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Duarte

Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ivaldo Bertazzo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Analu Shilber

Anderson (Andrey Lopes) is a high-class youth living in Copacabana, and Eliza (Maiara Queiroz), a resident of Rocinha,the largest favela in Brazil....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrey Lopes

Brazil's "Red Command" drug cartel is considered a plague by the government. But for the people of the favelas they control, Red Command *is* the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jake Hanrahan

Twenty years after City of God, Buscapé recounts how conflicts between police, traffickers, and militias impacted the community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues

Rio de Janeiro, during the 90's. Evandro dreams about becoming a great businessman, but ends up entering the world of crime and making an empire out...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raphael Logam

Told through three different characters' perspectives, the story of Sintonia explores the interconnection of the music, drug traffic, and religion in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jottapê

Genre: Soap

Cast: Bruna Marquezine

2010: Just as the Brazilian government launch a military-assisted siege on one of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious and criminally-controlled...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Antônio Fagundes