Best Movies from Brazil by Rank
109
1
2002
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Period Film
Brazil / France / USA
Portuguese
392
2
1998
Walter Salles
Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira
Drama
Brazil / France
Portuguese
741
4
1985
Hector Babenco
William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves
Drama
Brazil / USA
English
776
5
1959
Marcel Camus
Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Marcel Camus, Fausto Guerzoni, Lourdes de Oliveira
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
Brazil / France / Italy
Portuguese
881
6
2017
Luca Guadagnino
Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Drama | Romance
Italy / France / Brazil / USA
English
1181
7
1964
Glauber Rocha
Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle, Geraldo Del Rey,
Drama / Crime
Brazil
Portuguese
1214
8
2024
Walter Salles
Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Otavio Linhares, Selton Mello
Biography / Drama / History
Brazil / France
Portuguese
1543
9
2001
Walter Salles
José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany
Drama
Brazil / France / Switzerland
Portuguese
1649
10
2025
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Robson Andrade, Rubens Santos, Licínio Januário
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir
Brazil / France / Netherlands / Germany
Portuguese
1694
11
1962
Anselmo Duarte
Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo
Drama / Religion
Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
1945
12
1963
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Átila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Orlando Macedo, Jofre Soares
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
1998
13
1967
Glauber Rocha
Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, José Lewgoy, Glauce Rocha, Paulo Gracindo
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2045
14
1976
Bruno Barreto
Sonia Braga, José Wilker, Mauro Mendonça
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Brazil
Portuguese
2175
15
1979
Carlos Diegues
José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Júnior, Zaira Zambelli
Drama / Comedy
France / Brazil / Argentina
Portuguese
2189
16
2012
Miguel Gomes
Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Henrique Espírito Santo
Drama / Romance
Portugal / Germany / Brazil / France
Portuguese
2262
17
2019
Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima, Rubens Santos
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Western
Brazil / France
Portuguese
2280
18
2015
Anna Muylaert
Regina Casé, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2406
19
2017
Lucrecia Martel
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Drama
Argentina / Brazil / Spain / Dominican Republic / France / Netherlands / Mexico / Switzerland / USA / Portugal / Lebanon
Spanish
2426
20
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2524
21
2014
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier
Documentary / Biography
France / Brazil / Italy
French
2609
22
1997
Bruno Barreto
Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres
Drama / Thriller
Brazil / USA
Portuguese
2609
22
1995
Fábio Barreto
Fábio Barreto, Mariana Pellegrino Barreto
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Brazil
Portuguese
2627
23
1969
Glauber Rocha
Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos
Drama / Western / Adventure
France / Brazil / West Germany
Portuguese
2632
24
1933
Humberto Mauro
Durval Bellini, Dea Selva, Lu Marival, Décio Murilo, Andréa Duarte
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2632
24
1953
Lima Barreto
Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico, Adoniran Barbosa
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Brazil
Portuguese
2639
25
1984
Carlos Diegues
Jonas Bloch, Zózimo Bulbul, Emmanuel Cavalcanti, Arduíno Colassanti
Drama / History / Epic
Brazil / France
Portuguese
2649
26
2010
José Padilha
Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action
Brazil
Portuguese
2649
26
2019
Karim Aïnouz
Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca
Drama
Brazil / Germany
Portuguese
2650
27
2014
Stephen Daldry
Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura, Christiane Amanpour, Selton Mello
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK / Brazil
English
2656
28
1984
Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos
Documentary / History
Brazil
Portuguese
2671
29
1931
Mario Peixoto
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Iolanda Bernardes
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese (Silent)
2692
30
1981
Leon Hirszman
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bete Mendes
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2694
31
2007
José Padilha
Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz, Fernanda Machado
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Adventure
Brazil / Argentina
Portuguese
2698
32
2025
Gabriel Mascaro
Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras, Adanilo, Rosa Malagueta
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Brazil / Mexico / Netherlands / Chile
Portuguese
2702
33
1978
Ruy Guerra, Nelson Xavier
Leonidas Bayer, Carlos Alberto Baía, Hugo Carvana, Murilo de Lima
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2704
34
2008
Marco Bechis
Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli
Drama
Italy / Brazil
Italian
2704
34
2008
Nelson Yu Lik-wai
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Jô Odagiri, Yi Huang, Milhem Cortaz
Thriller / Gangster
Brazil / China / Hong Kong / Japan
Portuguese
2704
34
1997
Walter Lima Jr.
Lima Duarte, Fernando Torres, Leandra Leal, Floriano Peixoto
Fantasy / Drama / Mystery / Detective
Brazil
Portuguese
2704
34
2000
Manoel de Oliveira
Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trepa
Biography / Drama / History / Religion / Period Film
Spain / Italy / France / Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
2712
35
1973
Arnaldo Jabor
Paulo Porto, Darlene Glória, Elza Gomes, Paulo César Peréio
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2712
35
1969
Walter Lima Jr.
Anecy Rocha, Ênio Gonçalves, Hélio Fernando, Iracema de Alencar
Drama / Sci-Fi / Comedy
Brazil
Portuguese
2712
35
1953
Gian Gaspare Napolitano
Carlos Montalbán, Bret Morrison, Leonardo Bonzi, Gian Gaspare Napolitano
Documentary
Italy / Brazil
Italian
2718
36
2019
Marco Bellocchio
Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
Italy / France / Germany / Brazil
Italian
2720
37
1997
Luis Llosa
Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde
Thriller / Horror / Adventure / Action
USA / Brazil / Peru
English
2720
37
2002
José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel
Documentary / Crime / Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2727
38
2022
James Gray
Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins
Drama / Period Film
USA / Brazil
English
2727
38
2007
Paulo Morelli
Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos
Crime / Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2727
38
2005
Andrucha Waddington
Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge, Stênio Garcia
Drama / Period Film
Brazil
Portuguese
2727
38
2005
Sérgio Machado
Lázaro Ramos, Wagner Moura, Alice Braga, José Dumont
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2727
38
2024
David Schurmann
Jean Reno, Adriana Barraza, Alexia Moyano, Nicolás Francella
Adventure / Drama / Family / Action
Brazil / USA
English
2738
39
2015
Robert Eggers
Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger
Horror / Mystery / Period Film / Thriller
USA / UK / Canada / Brazil
English
2754
40
1980
Glauber Rocha
Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga, Tarcísio Meira
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / War / Religion / Epic / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese
2760
41
1971
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Arduíno Colessanti, Manfredo Colassanti
Drama / Comedy / History / Adventure
Brazil
Portuguese
2764
42
2007
Jason Kohn
Documentary / Crime / Biography
Brazil / USA
English
2764
42
2011
Andrés Wood
Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Luis Machín, Gabriela Aguilera
Biography / Music / Drama
Chile / Argentina / Brazil
Spanish
2785
43
1985
Suzana Amaral
Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman
Comedy
Brazil
Portuguese
NR
-
2012
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia
Drama / Thriller / Action
Brazil
Portuguese
NR
-
2023
Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba
Jeff Goldblum, Tony Ramos, Abel Ayala, Roberta Wallach, Ângela Rabello
Animation / Drama / History
Spain / France / Netherlands / Portugal / Peru / UK / USA / Brazil
English
