Brazilian Dictatorship Movies
This is a list of movies about or somewhat related to the history and memory of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964-1985). It's not a list of films made during the dictatorship. These are "post-dictatorship" narratives and documentaries. Some titles are not listed because they haven't been catalogued in IMDB yet.
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- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsAlan ArkinPedro CardosoFernanda TorresBrazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsIrene RavacheCriméia AlmeidaEstrela BohadanaHalf-documental independent film about torture against women in Brazilian military dictatorship. Ravache is both a nameless narrator and main character.
- DirectorSergio RezendeStarsPatricia PillarDaniel de OliveiraLeandra LealBased on the true story of Zuzu Angel, a famous Brazilian fashion designer in the 70's, who searches for her son Stuart, a member of a leftist university group who suddenly disappears during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
- DirectorCao HamburgerStarsMichel JoelsasGermano HaiutDaniela PiepszykA boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
- DirectorToni VenturiStarsLeonardo MedeirosDebora DubocJonas BlochA revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
- DirectorPaulo NascimentoStarsLeonardo MachadoFernanda MoroNélson DinizIn the early seventies, Latin America was going through a period dominated by military dictatorships. In Brazil, the regime was at its peak. Society got organized and resisted in a number of ways. Some political groups chose armed resistance to fight the regime. From this context, In Your Name... tells the story of Boni, a humble architecture student who joins armed resistance, but has his own doubts and fears about it. Boni fears for his family, his girlfriend and the future, which grows uncertain day by day. Like many others, Boni is arrested, tortured and banned from the country in the exchange for the Swiss ambassador amongst the so-called Grupo Dos 70. At his Chilean exile, with his wife Cecilia he starts to work and get to know the Chilean people. This experience makes him start looking at the world in a more open, humane way. The military coup overthrows Allende and changes life all over again. With Cecilia and their son Boni flees to Algeria and later to Paris, where he is elected President of the Comitê Brasileiro da Luta pela Anistia (Brazilian Committee of the Fight for Amnesty). He returns to Brazil nine years after being banned.
- DirectorMauro LimaStarsSelton MelloOtávio MüllerRafaela MandelliEstado do Rio de Janeiro, 1963. O coreto da praça principal de Bacaxá explode no momento de abertura da gincana de primavera da pequena cidade. O alvo do atentando é Amélia Castanho, cantora de boate escolhida para a tarefa da efeméride anual. Segundos antes de o coreto ir pelos ares, ela escuta do rádio do automóvel uma bizarra transmissão: o locutor, em transe, revela o plano que pretendia vitimá-la pela explosão onde ela deveria estar mas não estava! Assim começa Reis e Ratos. A partir daí, a narrativa quebrada em flashbacks nos traz de volta até a explosão do coreto e seu desfecho. A trama e suas situações conduzem o espectador pela atmosfera conspiratória das vésperas do Golpe Militar de 1964. A narrativa suja e delirante de Reis e Ratos ocorre numa certa antessala do cenário golpista. A história é contada através dos pontos de vista de um grupo de personagens de alguma forma ligados à direita. Esse grupo de pessoas é parte de um plano pra tirar o presidente do governo sem que o uso do dispositivo militar, tanto golpista quando legalista, precise ser empreendido. (Fonte: site oficial do filme)
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsClarisse AbujamraOtávio AugustoEduardo CravoA group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away.
- DirectorSilvio Da-RinStarsGregório BezerraJosé Dirceu de OliveiraJose IbrahimDocumentary featuring contemporary interviews with 5 of the revolutionary activists who kidnapped US ambassador Charles Embrick in August 1969 in Rio de Janeiro and some of the political prisoners who were freed from prison in exchange of the ambassador's liberty and flown out of Brazil to Mexico in an army cargo airplane "Hércules 56".
- DirectorCamilo TavaresStarsAuro de Moura AndradeRobert BentleyJúlio de Sá BierrenbachProvides evidence of manipulation and investment funding from the U.S. government to carry out the Brazilian military coup that occurred in 1964.
- DirectorPedro AsbegStarsAdílson Monteiro AlvesMauro BettingWalter CasagrandeDuring the 80's, brazilians were living under a dictatorship (since 1964). Some players of the soccer club Corinthians, from São Paulo, begins a new form of managing the team, always using polling to decide everything.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsCaco CioclerFlavio BauraquiWerner SchünemannThe strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
- DirectorSilvio TendlerStarsLeonel BrizolaJoão GoulartJuscelino KubitschekThe story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.
- DirectorPaulo MarkunStarsPaulo MarkunMárcio Moreira AlvesMaurício BrancoDocumentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.
- DirectorPaulo Henrique FontenelleStarsCarlos DieguesJoão GoulartPaula MorenoAn account of the mysterious death of a former president of Brazil whose deposition led to the Military Revolution in Brazil in 1964, seeking to clarify obscure facts in the country's history at that time.
- DirectorIsa Grinspum FerrazStarsCarlos Augusto MarighellaLázaro RamosMiguel ArraesA documentary about the member of the brazilian Communist Party, Congressman elected by vote, and later on enemy number one of the brazilian dictatorship of 1964, Carlos Marighella.
- DirectorWagner MouraStarsSeu JorgeBruno GagliassoLuiz Carlos VasconcelosFacing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the regime.
- DirectorSilvio TendlerStarsAlmino AfonsoMario AndreazzaMiguel ArraesIn 1985, the military regime in Brazil was weakened due to previous protests and manifestations demanding for new direct elections in the country. With that outcome in mind, the current leadership asked the Congress to include a new election which had two candidates: one supported by the regime and another one running for the democracy. Tancredo Neves was that candidate and he won the election becoming the first democratic president in more than 20 years. But things didn't happened as planned during this government transition. The documentary follows the initial ecstasy of change and the agony a whole nation suffered in those days that altered politics in Brazil.
- DirectorMurilo SallesStarsClaudio MarzoRoberto BataglinSusana VieiraCarlos, a left-wing militant involved in actions against the Brazilian dictatorship in the early seventies, decides to get closer to his teenage son Gabriel, but his duties towards the revolutionary struggle will make him move away again from the boy, who does not understand the absence of the dad. They have been away for eight years. One was in boarding school and the other in prison. He takes his son out from the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. He is trapped in an almost empty apartment and having only the company of a TV set and a guitar. He knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really explain his activities to his son, fearing for his security. So the young man stands alone in the huge apartment, waiting for the infrequent meetings with his father, without really knowing what's going on. Meanwhile he ends up facing the need to discover his own identity.
- DirectorEduardo KishimotoStarsLuiz Carlos VasconcelosDenise WeinbergMario BorgesIsmael receives a phone call from an old girlfriend, Helena. He had disappeared to become clandestine during the dictatorship, unaware that she was pregnant. She needs help to find the child they had. This journey in search of her son, will make Ismael confronts his past.
- DirectorRonaldo DuqueStarsMilton AiresCriméia AliceFernando Alves PintoFilm about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.
- DirectorSergio RezendeStarsPaulo BettiCarla CamuratiJosé de AbreuThe real story of a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsDom Paulo Evaristo ArnsAldir BlancJoão BoscoThe documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Brazilian military dictatorship.
- DirectorWalter SallesDaniela ThomasStarsFernanda TorresFernando Alves PintoAlexandre BorgesAfter the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to his mother's native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.
- DirectorHelvecio RattonStarsCaio BlatDaniel de OliveiraLéo QuintãoDuring the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship. In the 60s, the Dominican friars Tito, Betto, Fernando and Ivo help leftist organizations. However, they are arrested and tortured by the despicable Chief of DOPS Fleury, who is trying to arrest the leader Carlos Marighella. Tito and Fernando do not resist the violent torture and betray Marighella, who is ambushed and executed by Fleury. In 1973, in France, the exiled friar Tito is unable to overcome his trauma and depression and commits suicide in the Convent of La Tourette.