Fernando Meirelles

Beast Race (2026)

Inspired by the illegal universe of the Brazilian animal lottery, a fearless young man must win a deadly race to save his sister in a dystopian future where each animal in the game is now represented by a runner vying for a prize. ...

Barbaric Acts (2023)

A successful 38-year-old attorney leads a normal life until her daughter is shot by criminals. Desperate and powerless that her daughter's attacker hasn't been arrested, Carla decides to take justice into her own hands. ...

Slam (2023)

Samuca is only 17 years old and discovers that his girlfriend Alicia is pregnant. The news comes to light at a not very favorable moment in Samuca's life, just when he thought everything was going very well. For having committed the same "slam" as his moth ...

Buscapé (2022)

With executive production by Fernando Meirelles and direction by Fred Luz, actors Alexandre Rodrigues and Edson Oliveira are Buscapé and Barbantinho, two friends who meet again in today's City of God: bigger, more diverse and connected. ...

Eduardo and Monica (2022)

On an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. A curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love. In 1980s Brasília, their love needs to mature and learn to overcome differenc ...

7 Prisoners (2021)

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive. ...

Urubus (2021)

Trinchas and his gang of graffiti taggers risk their lives climbing tall buildings to sign their names up there. When he falls for Valéria - an art graduate student -, they shake the international art scene. ...

The Meaning of Life (2021)

In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with a rare hereditary disease with no cure. ...

Ousmane (2021)

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour's troubles in his Montreal apartment building. ...

Marighella (2021)

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionar ...

The Great Green Wall (2020)

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and climate change. ...

The Two Popes (2019)

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to re ...

Loop (2019)

After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel then gives up ...

Socrates (2018)

After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief. ...

Liquid Truth (2017)

Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him. ...

492: A Man Called Death (2017)

The story of Júlio Santana, a professional killer who was responsible for almost 500 hundred murders in Brazil. ...

A Fera na Selva (2017)

A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James. ...

El Revenge (2017)

Two friends hit the road to Buenos Aires aboard an orange Opala 72, with a mission: be with as many women as possible. This is all a plan to wash the honor of "Caco", a man who found his girlfriend in bed with an Argentine. ...

O Filho Eterno (2016)

Roberto is in the edge to become a father for the first time. He was already dreaming of the years yet to come, wondering how his son would be. While trying to figure out how to act like a father he must also face and endure a tough reality - to be a Down ...

Exodus: Where I come from is disappearing (2016)

Observational documentary about people as refugees and asylum seekers in many geographical locations such as Germany, Brazil, Western Sahara, Myanmar, Cuba, South Sudan. ...

Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World (2016)

With fireworks forming the word "Rio" in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of "The Girl from Ipanema," Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebrati ...

Stronger Than The World (2016)

The Story of longtime UFC Featherweight champion and the struggles facing him on the road to the top. ...

Cosmos (2015)

A unique visual journey through galaxies, deep into the subatomic world of elementary particles, and into the center of the sun. Witness the formation of the Earth and the beginning of life and the birth of thought. Shown exclusively at the Museu do Amanhà ...

Trash (2014)

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. ...

Rio, I Love You (2014)

The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrati ...

The Water Law (2014)

The Water Law is a Brazilian documentary that explains the relationship between the new Forest Code and the Brazilian water crisis. ...

360 (2012)

A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian stu ...

Xingu (2012)

Three brothers embark on a journey that begins with a kinship with Brazil's indigenous tribes, to their creation of South America's largest national park. ...

VIPs (2011)

Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots. One day, he responds the call of a drug dealer and uses his boss' plane to help the man to transport his cargo. He is hired by t ...

José & Pilar (2010)

A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for c ...

Sound & Fury: Film (2010)

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play. ...

Waste Land (2010)

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts ...

Amanhecer (2010)

This short film portrays the last hours of a young man before assuming homosexuality. He struggles to tell his father that he is gay, but gets inspired from a conversation with friends. ...

Blindness (2008)

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine. ...

City of Men (2007)

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas. ...

Not by Chance (2007)

Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home. He inherited a carpentry from his father and a taste for the pool. When a traffic accident crosses the parallel trajectories of ...

The Pope's Toilet (2007)

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide. While most of the residents plan to sell food at the parade, a smuggler family man decides to build a pay toilet. ...

Antônia (2007)

Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succumb to ...

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil. ...

The Constant Gardener (2005)

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous ...

Up Against Them All (2004)

A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny. ...

City of God (2002)

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José "Zé" Pequeno is an ambitious drug de ...

Maids (2001)

Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a g ...

Palace II (2000)

Two young boys, Laranjinha and Acerola, living in Cidade de Deus, one of the most violent neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, need some money to go to a concert. The "easiest" (and most dangerous) way to get it is working for some drug-dealers. ...

E No Meio Passa Um Trem (1998)

A film about weddings, professions, children, travel plans and a train that separates it all. ...

The Nutty Boy 2 (1998)

In this new adventure, Maluquinho is spending the holidays at the home of his grandfather Tônico (Stênio Garcia), an inventor who lives in a small community in the interior of Minas Gerais. His friends Junim (Samuel Brandão), Lucio (Cauã Bernard Souza) ...

Olhar Eletrônico (1986)

Reunion of four reportages made by production company "Olhar Eletrônico" between 1983 and 1986, in which an irreverent reporter, Ernesto Varela, a creation of actor/director Marcelo Tas, tackles some hot topics, such as money evasion in Brazil, gold-diggi ...

Punk em São Paulo: Garotos do Subúrbio (1983)

In 1983, director Fernando Meirelles read an article in the newspaper about the punks circulating in downtown São Paulo. Half suspicious, he went to see what it was all about. The result is Boys From The Suburbs, his first "most worked"Film. ...

Marly Normal (1983)

An experimental documentary following the busy life of an office worker in São Paulo, Marly, and how he manages to have a personal life beyond that. ...

Brasília (1983)

A poetic vision of the city Brasília. ...

Passages: Travelling In and Out of Film Through Brazilian Geography (2019)

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality. ...

VIVA - The opening Ceremony Documentary of Rio 2016 (2017)

For the first time ever, experience the work of a nation as it host the world and puts on a show like never before. ...

O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois (2011)

Brasil Animado (2011)

The story of Stress & Relax: a businessman who thinks only of money and a film director who lives for insisting that this invest in their projects. This time, the "project" is to look for the oldest tree in Brazil. Stress is excited about the possibility o ...

Comercial (2010)

The documentary "Comercial" brings a portrait of Brazilian advertising, from the perspective of the production of advertising films, told through the eyes of scene directors, creatives and clients; from those who lived the golden age of advertising in Braz ...

Critic (2008)

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and ...

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener (2006)

The Constant Gardener featurette. ...

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema (2005)

A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves. ...

Cidade de Deus: Oficina dos Atores (2003)

Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God". ...