favela movies

The Violin Teacher (2015)
6.6 / 10

Drama, Music

Laerte, a talented violinist who after failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public...

How Angels are Born (1996)
6.4 / 10

Drama, Crime

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...

Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace (2018)
3.5 / 10

Drama

The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.

Streets of Rio (2008)
5.5 / 10

Drama, Crime

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...

The Good Fight (2017)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

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

Black I Am (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary, Family

The women of the first Garífuna community in Honduras work hard for the future of their daughters. Surrounded by a dazzling landscape, they...

Noites em Claro (2022)
0 / 10

Horror

São Paulo: Uma Cidade Segregada (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary

Complexo: Parallel Universe (2011)
7.3 / 10

Documentary

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 -...

Dancing with the Devil (2009)
5.4 / 10

Documentary

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...

Zé Barriga (2007)
0 / 10

Documentary

Complexes (2020)
6 / 10

Documentary

The short documentary ‘Complexos‘ features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts to raise...

Fuga da Rocinha (2016)
9 / 10

Drama, Crime

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

Straight to the Point (2012)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Ponho A Mão No Fogo (2016)
0 / 10

Drama, Thriller

The drama recounts the need for dialogue and attention on raising children through their characters: three mothers and their children. Marcia (Dani...

Inside the Mind of Favela Funk (2016)
8 / 10

Documentary

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

The Other Side of the Postcard (2016)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

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

Our Stories, Ourselves (2013)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

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

Queda (2023)
10 / 10

Drama

Public Domain (2014)
9 / 10

Documentary

Between 2011 and 2014, the documentary investigated the changes in Rio de Janeiro on behalf of mega-events: UPPs in slums, forced evictions, public...