Keyword Favela
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2015
The Violin Teacher
The Violin Teacher6.60 2015 HD
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...
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2009
Dancing with the Devil
Dancing with the Devil5.40 2009 HD
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...
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1996
How Angels are Born
How Angels are Born6.80 1996 HD
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...
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2004
The Miracle of Candeal
The Miracle of Candeal5.00 2004 HD
The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that protect...
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2016
Fuga da Rocinha
Fuga da Rocinha9.00 2016 HD
Anderson (Andrey Lopes) is a high-class youth living in Copacabana, and Eliza (Maiara Queiroz), a resident of Rocinha,the largest favela in Brazil....
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2022
L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca
L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca8.70 2022 HD
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2008
Streets of Rio
Streets of Rio5.50 2008 HD
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...
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2018
Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace
Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace3.50 2018 HD
The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.
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2011
Complexo: Parallel Universe
Complexo: Parallel Universe7.30 2011 HD
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 -...
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2020
Complexes
Complexes6.00 2020 HD
The short documentary ‘Complexos‘ features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts...
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2007
Zé Barriga
Zé Barriga1 2007 HD
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2013
Our Stories, Ourselves
Our Stories, Ourselves7.50 2013 HD
Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo,...
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2012
Straight to the Point
Straight to the Point1 2012 HD
Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.
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2020
Black I Am
Black I Am1 2020 HD
The women of the first Garífuna community in Honduras work hard for the future of their daughters. Surrounded by a dazzling landscape, they...
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2016
Inside the Mind of Favela Funk
Inside the Mind of Favela Funk8.00 2016 HD
Set in Rio de Janeiro's most notorious favelas, the underprivileged youth share their perspective on the extremely popular, pornographic favela funk...
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2023
Queda
Queda10.00 2023 HD
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2017
The Good Fight
The Good Fight6.50 2017 HD
A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade.
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2015
Gringo on the Slum
Gringo on the Slum3.00 2015 HD
Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They...
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2016
The Other Side of the Postcard
The Other Side of the Postcard7.50 2016 HD
The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police...
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2014
Public Domain
Public Domain9.00 2014 HD
Between 2011 and 2014, the documentary investigated the changes in Rio de Janeiro on behalf of mega-events: UPPs in slums, forced evictions, public...
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2015
I Love Paraisópolis
I Love Paraisópolis7.80 2015 HD
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2024
City of God: The Fight Rages On
City of God: The Fight Rages On7.50 2024 HD
Twenty years after City of God, Buscapé recounts how conflicts between police, traffickers, and militias impacted the community.
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2018
Impure
Impure7.50 2018 HD
Rio de Janeiro, during the 90's. Evandro dreams about becoming a great businessman, but ends up entering the world of crime and making an empire out...
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2019
Sintonia
Sintonia8.10 2019 HD
Told through three different characters' perspectives, the story of Sintonia explores the interconnection of the music, drug traffic, and religion in...
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2016
The Raid
The Raid1 2016 HD
2010: Just as the Brazilian government launch a military-assisted siege on one of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious and criminally-controlled...