Favela Movies

  • 2015
    The Violin Teacher

    The Violin Teacher

    The Violin Teacher

    6.62015HD

    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 f...

    The Violin Teacher
  • 2009
    Dancing with the Devil

    Dancing with the Devil

    Dancing with the Devil

    5.42009HD

    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...

    Dancing with the Devil
  • 2017
    The Good Fight

    The Good Fight

    The Good Fight

    6.52017HD

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

    The Good Fight
  • 2023
    Queda

    Queda

    Queda

    102023HD

    Queda
  • 2016
    Fuga da Rocinha

    Fuga da Rocinha

    Fuga da Rocinha

    92016HD

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

    Fuga da Rocinha
  • 2020
    Complexes

    Complexes

    Complexes

    62020HD

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

    Complexes
  • 2011
    Complexo: Parallel Universe

    Complexo: Parallel Universe

    Complexo: Parallel Universe

    7.32011HD

    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: Parallel Universe
  • 2016
    Inside the Mind of Favela Funk

    Inside the Mind of Favela Funk

    Inside the Mind of Favela Funk

    82016HD

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

    Inside the Mind of Favela Funk
  • 2020
    Black I Am

    Black I Am

    Black I Am

    02020HD

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

    Black I Am
  • 2008
    Streets of Rio

    Streets of Rio

    Streets of Rio

    5.52008HD

    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 t...

    Streets of Rio
  • 2022
    L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca

    L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca

    L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca

    8.72022HD

    L'Homme de Rio - A vida loca
  • 2013
    Our Stories, Ourselves

    Our Stories, Ourselves

    Our Stories, Ourselves

    7.52013HD

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

    Our Stories, Ourselves
  • 2016
    Ponho A Mão No Fogo

    Ponho A Mão No Fogo

    Ponho A Mão No Fogo

    02016HD

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

    Ponho A Mão No Fogo
  • 1996
    How Angels are Born

    How Angels are Born

    How Angels are Born

    6.81996HD

    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...

    How Angels are Born
  • 2002
    Favela no Ar

    Favela no Ar

    Favela no Ar

    02002HD

    The documentary shows the awakening of the poor youth to social consciousness in the identification of life that imitates art with art that imitates l...

    Favela no Ar
  • 2022
    Noites em Claro

    Noites em Claro

    Noites em Claro

    02022HD

    Noites em Claro
  • 2018
    Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace

    Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace

    Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace

    3.52018HD

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

    Eu, Minha Mãe e Wallace
  • 2007
    Zé Barriga

    Zé Barriga

    Zé Barriga

    02007HD

    Zé Barriga
  • 2015
    Gringo on the Slum

    Gringo on the Slum

    Gringo on the Slum

    32015HD

    Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They come...

    Gringo on the Slum
  • 2014
    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    92014HD

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

    Public Domain