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A list of films produced in Brazil ordered by year and split onto separate pages by decade. For an alphabetical list of films currently on Wikipedia see Category:Brazilian films 1897–1919
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton. The film was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. [2] The film had 1,013,842 admissions in France and was the 35th most attended film of the year. [3]
Road 47 (Portuguese: A Estrada 47) is a 2013 historical war drama film written and directed by Vicente Ferraz, based on real events, about Brazil's involvement in World War II. The film stars Daniel de Oliveira , Richard Sammel , Sergio Rubini and Julio Andrade.
Gabeira (played by Pedro Cardoso and named Paulo in the film) as a student joins the radical movement after Brazil's military overthrew its government in a 1964 coup. In 1969, he and his comrades decide to kidnap the American ambassador to protest the Brazilians' coup; the film busies itself with the group's conspiring and execution of the crime.
Films about military dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1985). The Brazilian dictatorship lasted for 21 years, until 15 March 1985. [1] [2] The military coup was fomented by José de Magalhães Pinto, Adhemar de Barros, and Carlos Lacerda (who had already participated in the conspiracy to depose Getúlio Vargas in 1945), then governors of the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Guanabara ...
A Grande Arte (in English, The Great Art; US title: Exposure), is a 1991 Brazilian movie directed by Walter Salles Jr. and starring Peter Coyote.Loosely based on the book A Grande Arte by Brazilian Rubem Fonseca, it is one of the first theatrical works of Salles Jr.
This poll was the basis for a book named The 100 Best Brazilian Films, published in 2016. [2] The idea of the ranking and the book was suggested by publisher Letramento, with whom Abraccine and television network Canal Brasil co-released the book. The ranking was done based on individual lists done by Abraccine's 100 critics, who initially ...
Marighella is a 2019 Brazilian biographical political thriller film directed by Wagner Moura, based on the life of Carlos Marighella, a Brazilian politician, writer, and Marxist–Leninist guerrilla fighter [1] [2] accused of engaging in "terrorist acts" against the Brazilian military dictatorship.