Movies: Favela
- 2025
Vitória (2025)
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Vitória is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amid conflicts with her neighbors, she decides to film the movement of drug traffickers from her window, hoping to assist the police. Aft...
- 2015
The Violin Teacher (2015)
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After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power of music and friendships formed with his pupils....
- 2008
Streets of Rio (2008)
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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 this way, help his family to have a better life. Although he is the best player in his neighborhood a...
- 2014
Public Domain (2014)
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Between 2011 and 2014, the documentary investigated the changes in Rio de Janeiro on behalf of mega-events: UPPs in slums, forced evictions, public spaces privatization and popular uprisings....
- 2012
Straight to the Point (2012)
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Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers....
- 2017
The Good Fight (2017)
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A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade....
- 2016
The Other Side of the Postcard (2016)
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The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police shot and killed 10-year old Eduardo in Complexo do Alemão, causing uproar in that community. Alemão and...
- 2020
São Paulo: Uma Cidade Segregada (2020)
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- 2002
Favela no Ar (2002)
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The documentary shows the awakening of the poor youth to social consciousness in the identification of life that imitates art with art that imitates life. It is the São Paulo chapter of the cultural history of national rap in the voice of its main ex...
- 2013
Our Stories, Ourselves (2013)
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Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo, which incorporated their own daily experiences. Ten years later, directors David Meyer and Helena Soldberg sear...
- 2016
Fuga da Rocinha (2016)
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Anderson (Andrey Lopes) is a high-class youth living in Copacabana, and Eliza (Maiara Queiroz), a resident of Rocinha,the largest favela in Brazil. The two start a romance, but the first time Anderson meets the community in which she lives, he witnes...
- 2022
Noites em Claro (2022)
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- 2016
Ponho A Mão No Fogo (2016)
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The drama recounts the need for dialogue and attention on raising children through their characters: three mothers and their children. Marcia (Dani Tavares) A high-class mother and married, who always had everything and provides the same for your chi...
- 2007
Zé Barriga (2007)
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- 1996
How Angels are Born (1996)
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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 a rich American citizen lives with his daughter....
- 2011
Complexo: Parallel Universe (2011)
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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 - o Complexo do Alemão. Em 2007, no período de maior tensão e violência no Rio de Janeiro, viveram a ma...
- 2025
White House (2025)
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Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with h...
- 2016
Inside the Mind of Favela Funk (2016)
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Set in Rio de Janeiro's most notorious favelas, the underprivileged youth share their perspective on the extremely popular, pornographic favela funk music with respect to their personal (love) lives, situated in a lawless subculture of drug gangs, ma...
- 2004
The Miracle of Candeal (2004)
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The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that protect and enrich the lives of its inhabitants every day....
- 2022
L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca (2022)
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