1. Os Normais: O Filme (Os Normais: O Filme)
The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding . Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
2. Tainá: An Amazon Adventure (Tainá: Uma Aventura na Amazônia)
A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfather, pairs with a boy from the big city, against animal traffickers in the Amazon forest.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
3. The Inheritance (A Partilha)
Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
4. O Coronel e o Lobisomem (O Coronel e o Lobisomem)
Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
5. The Middle of the World (O Caminho das Nuvens)
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
6. Guerra de Canudos (Guerra de Canudos)
At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to destroy the settlement, which culminates in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Brazil.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
7. È arrivato mio fratello (È arrivato mio fratello)
(È arrivato mio fratello)
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
8. Infelici e contenti (Infelici e contenti)
Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a cheat who’s in trouble.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
9. The Man Who Challenged the Devil (O Homem Que Desafiou o Diabo)
After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, an unconventional hero devoted to debauchery.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
10. Basic Sanitation, the Movie (Saneamento Básico, o Filme)
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
11. E Aí... Comeu? (E Aí... Comeu?)
The real first comedy about love.
It has an average vote of 5.758 on TMDB.
12. Drained (O Cheiro do Ralo)
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
It has an average vote of 7.015 on TMDB.
13. Olga (Olga)
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
14. Brainstorm (Bicho de Sete Cabeças)
Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
15. Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (Cazuza: O Tempo Não Pára)
Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
16. If I Were You (Se Eu Fosse Você)
The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
17. Two Sons of Francisco (2 Filhos de Francisco: A História de Zezé di Camargo & Luciano)
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
18. Carandiru (Carandiru)
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
19. Being There
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
20. Central Station (Central do Brasil)
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
It has an average vote of 8.145 on TMDB.
