1. Urubus (Urubus)
Trinchas and his gang of graffiti taggers risk their lives climbing tall buildings to sign their names up there. When he falls for Valéria - an art graduate student -, they shake the international art scene.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
2. Strive, Strive, Strive (Lutar, Lutar, Lutar)
Documentary film about the Brazilian football club Atletico Mineiro, but also about something intangible: football, its emotion and imperishable spirit.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
3. Confisco (Confisco)
The story of those affected by the 1990 Brazilian confiscation, the largest ever carried out by a democratic government against its citizens.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
4. Marighella (Marighella)
This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. Whindersson Nunes: My Own Show! (Whindersson Nunes: É de Mim Mesmo)
Comedian Whindersson Nunes brings his quirky impersonations and streetwise takes on different cultures to the historic stage of Teatro Amazonas.
It has an average vote of 7.134 on TMDB.
6. Peçanha Contra o Animal (Peçanha Contra o Animal)
(Peçanha Contra o Animal)
It has an average vote of 5.82 on TMDB.
7. Samsara (འཁོར་བ།)
A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
8. How to Be a Good Wife (La Bonne Épouse)
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
It has an average vote of 5.774 on TMDB.
9. Executive Order (Medida Provisória)
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
It has an average vote of 6.956 on TMDB.
10. So Long, My Son (地久天长)
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
11. Playground (Un monde)
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him by warning their father. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora will ultimately try to find her place, torn between children’s and adult’s worlds.
It has an average vote of 7.083 on TMDB.
12. Lulli (Lulli)
After getting electrocuted by an MRI machine, an ambitious young medical student begins to hear the thoughts of others.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
13. Invisible Life (A Vida Invisível)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
14. Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (Estômago)
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
It has an average vote of 7.898 on TMDB.
15. 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.
16. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2)
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.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
17. On the Road
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
It has an average vote of 5.602 on TMDB.
18. Icarus
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
19. Roald Dahl's The Witches
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
It has an average vote of 6.377 on TMDB.
20. The Harder They Fall
Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.
It has an average vote of 6.638 on TMDB.
