Brazilian Dramas on Netflix

A new classmate transforms the daily life of a blind teenager who longs for independence and disrupts his relationship with his best friend.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4.4/5
Runtime: 01:36:29
Netflix ID: 70307130 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The feud between two families persists through love, loss and historic change over 150 years in Southern Brazil. Based on the novels by Erico Verissimo.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 02:07:04
Netflix ID: 81347805 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A doctor connects with the inmates at the severely overcrowded São Paulo House of Detention. But hostilities boil over, resulting in a fatal riot.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:25:20
Netflix ID: 60033309 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The final holdout in her historic beachside building in Brazil, a retired music critic refuses to sell her apartment to developers bent on demolition.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:25:58
Netflix ID: 80113667 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After years of working in the city, an indigenous man starts to question his environment as his daughter prepares to leave home for medical school.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:38:00
Netflix ID: 81241266 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To distance himself from World War II, a young German moves to Brazil, where he meets a hitchhiker with his own motivations to keep moving.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 01:40:37
Netflix ID: 70062215 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A disparate group of well-off neighbors hire a private security firm to protect their apartment building, but the watchmen only heighten the problem.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 02:10:58
Netflix ID: 70245247 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After canceling a dream trip to California to visit her beloved uncle, a naive teen navigates the dark realities of adolescence and his sickness.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:30:31
Netflix ID: 81180835 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Pulling influences from his travels abroad, a charismatic singer returns home to Brazil with a soulful sound that would soon turn him into a music icon.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:21:39
Netflix ID: 81380262 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to search for his estranged brother, who is living a life very different than the one his family thought.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:42:30
Netflix ID: 81282070 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A writer embarks on an emotional journey as he deals with the challenges of fatherhood while raising a son with Down syndrome.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:26:25
Netflix ID: 81380263 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An upper-class teenage boy in Rio struggles to adapt when his family's fortunes change and he's forced to face a less privileged life.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 01:54:17
Netflix ID: 80052705 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Inspired by the movie 'Thelma & Louise,' three young people with Down syndrome leave the institution where they live to take a road trip together.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:42:45
Netflix ID: 80095232 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his shy teen son suddenly goes missing, a driven, unhappily married São Paulo doctor sets off to find him, going clue by clue to track him down.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:36:13
Netflix ID: 80104066 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teen who's exploring his sexual identity finds his life upended when he learns the mother who raised him kidnapped him from his biological parents.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:22:12
Netflix ID: 80123909 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teenager with behavioral problems is committed to a psychiatric clinic, where he enters into an intense romance with a terminally ill woman.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:28:56
Netflix ID: 81502978 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas finds his future in peril after a botched assassination attempt on a political foe in this tense historical drama.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:40:20
Netflix ID: 80187186 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Devastated from police violence years before, two men living in a dystopian slum, along with a visitor from the future, plot to take down the system.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:35:16
Netflix ID: 80103378 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A bored teen phones his psychiatrist mother's female patients to elicit a thrill, but he suddenly finds himself making a real-life connection.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:32:38
Netflix ID: 80201838 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A diverted flight forces two strangers, a São Paulo ad exec and a Rio artist, to spend the night together, igniting a long-distance romance.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:48:22
Netflix ID: 80994918 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

From the comfort of a therapist's couch, a middle-aged wife and mother dissects the details of her life and contemplates the choices she's made.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:33:00
Netflix ID: 70143433 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A night in São Paulo turns into a decade of discovery, desire and intimacy as Caio and Mari navigate a relationship without a label or definition.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:20:36
Netflix ID: 81464327 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During World War II, Brazilian mine-detecting troops serving in northern Italy seek the courage to clear the infamous Road 47.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:49:24
Netflix ID: 80196151 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Brazilian man tries a myriad of ways to get over his breakup with his girlfriend but is surprised to learn it's more difficult than he anticipated.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:29:40
Netflix ID: 80187301 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Regina takes in two kids abandoned by their destitute mother, she discovers a new world, miles away from her upscale Rio de Janeiro neighborhood.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:48:37
Netflix ID: 80082744 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Despite coping with hardship and violence in their crime-ridden neighborhood, young dreamers in Brazil find expression and escape -- through cinema.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:28:29
Netflix ID: 80994915 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In Catholic 19th-century France, professor Léon Rivail attends a séance and is moved to found spiritism, putting him in the authorities' sights.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:50:20
Netflix ID: 80997400 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a new teen idol knocks Gaby off the pop charts, she decides to return to her country hometown where adventure, love — and music — await.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:33:38
Netflix ID: 81489616 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The romanticized life of media mogul Assis Chateaubriand depicts him as the star of a televised trial, where his passions and achievements are judged.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:45:22
Netflix ID: 80094453 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three disparate women grappling with the challenges of motherhood seek advice from medium Chico Xavier, whom a reporter is pursuing for an interview.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:48:53
Netflix ID: 80076607 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Years after drifting apart over a woman, two music-loving buddies reunite and reflect. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's stage play "No Retrovisor."

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6
Runtime: 01:43:35
Netflix ID: 81502976 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely savior who teaches him a new way of living.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:36:11
Netflix ID: 81242205 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A seasoned couples therapist comes to realize she might need help with her own marriage after meeting a new pair of young clients.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:28:10
Netflix ID: 80144890 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a pair of young artists move to Berlin, a cosmic portal opens up in their home that jump-starts a journey transcending time and space.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:11:29
Netflix ID: 81078620 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This biographical drama traces the rise to fame of controversial Brazilian evangelical leader and business titan Edir Macedo.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.5
Runtime: 02:12:38
Netflix ID: 80186829 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of friends finds their fun at vacation camp ruined when a big corporate developer threatens to build a pollution-spewing factory on the land.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 5.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:22:39
Netflix ID: 80071046 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A frantic husband spends a sleepless night combing through the darkest corners of the city, searching for his missing wife.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.2
Runtime: 01:14:36
Netflix ID: 81078625 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The eclectic children of World School get a chance to meet a famous pop star, but first their archenemies aim to put them through a grueling trial.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 4.7
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:33:50
Netflix ID: 80107734 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

During Carnival, two teens from different classes meet years after being kept apart. Bad decisions lead the boy to hide with the girl inside a float.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 4.5
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:36:41
Netflix ID: 80119235 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Four big and beautiful girlfriends are there for each other as they seek, find and maintain relationships in the busy, glamorous city of São Paulo.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 3.9
Runtime: 01:51:07
Netflix ID: 81004555 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The story of Moses leading his people to the promised land is retold using highlights from the popular television series of the same name.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 3.2
Runtime: 02:01:30
Netflix ID: 80995792 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young girl with a love of painting discovers she is able to heal people's illnesses with the touch of her hands.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:45:04
Netflix ID: 80244999 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a woman leaves her hometown for a city job as a home inspector for dengue fever, the change of scenery spurs an unexpected journey of independence.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:53:59
Netflix ID: 81042801 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While working on a new book, a successful writer struggles to distinguish the characters she created from the people in her actual life.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:31:58
Netflix ID: 81295104 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Insecure about her culinary ambitions, a talented chef crosses paths with a charming investor who encourages her to open her own restaurant.

Year: 2014
Runtime: 01:29:38
Netflix ID: 81347794 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As her 15th birthday party approaches, Bia realizes she has few guests to invite, a problem her friend Bruno and fun-loving father Edu try to fix.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:44:47
Netflix ID: 80184040 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A cop moonlights as the bodyguard for a young drag queen at a nightclub, and grows closer to the family of misfit singers that perform there.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:50:34
Netflix ID: 81011955 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A woman balancing two daughters, an often-absent husband and an unfulfilling career struggles to cope after her critical mother drops two bombshells.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:45:52
Netflix ID: 81044192 · Watch on Netflix

Bruno is looking for a new singer for his band when he meets Jeny. But they'll have to face the secrets from their past before they can chase their dreams.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:30:06
Netflix ID: 81295107 · Watch on Netflix

Francisca has built a nice life in Brazil, but feels pangs of homesickness for Lisbon – which only intensify when an old friend comes to stay with her.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:39:02
Netflix ID: 81316957 · Watch on Netflix

A popular student tries to unmask the author of an anonymous social media account who is tearing apart her boarding school with gossip.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:10:12
Netflix ID: 81282785 · Watch on Netflix

A photographer visits São Paulo for an exhibition and has to confront lingering feelings for his ex-girlfriend when he stays with her and her new husband.

Year: 2014
Runtime: 01:25:11
Netflix ID: 81316956 · Watch on Netflix

A family is forced to move back to a working-class neighborhood. Though strange events unfold, they continue with their normal lives.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:49:21
Netflix ID: 81180845 · Watch on Netflix

Grief-stricken over her boyfriend's untimely death, a teen becomes obsessed with the idea of bringing him back to life.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:40:42
Netflix ID: 81311714 · Watch on Netflix

In this nostalgic family comedy, a mischievous young inventor is grounded by his parents, so his mirror image comes to life and keeps making trouble.

Year: 2013
Runtime: 01:18:11
Netflix ID: 81347799 · Watch on Netflix

Two worlds collide when Fininha, a soldier, begins a passionate affair with Clécio, who leads a fringe theatre troupe in conservative 1970s Brazil.

Year: 2013
Runtime: 01:50:27
Netflix ID: 81295580 · Watch on Netflix

When a teenager travels from Germany to visit her distant grandmother in Brazil, she learns her family history and discovers the truth about her trip.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:27:29
Netflix ID: 81311715 · Watch on Netflix

A comfortable professor wrestles with her sanity as she becomes overwhelmed by her connection to the controversial death of her houseworker's son.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:36:26
Netflix ID: 81316953 · Watch on Netflix

An introverted train driver is forced to interact with a colleague when she asks him to be a witness at her wedding. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story.

Year: 2013
Runtime: 01:33:28
Netflix ID: 80015153 · Watch on Netflix

After the ranch he works at suffers a major loss, a cowboy in the countryside tries to fulfill his dream of becoming a rodeo announcer.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:30:08
Netflix ID: 81078652 · Watch on Netflix

A Recife poet and his friends live and love freely as they try to defy an unjust system in this critically acclaimed social satire.

Year: 2011
Runtime: 01:45:28
Netflix ID: 81380261 · Watch on Netflix

With only the radio and his thoughts, a geologist is sent on an assignment to an isolated area. On his journey there, loneliness starts to settle in.

Year: 2009
Runtime: 01:11:07
Netflix ID: 81380260 · Watch on Netflix

This biographical film follows the life of Saint Dulce Pontes, the Franciscan nun who dedicated her life to serving and advocating for the poor.

Year: 2014
Runtime: 01:33:59
Netflix ID: 81380277 · Watch on Netflix

Five undercover cops become trapped inside a dangerous favela when their plan to install a Pacifying Police Unit is foiled by local drug lords.

Year: 2014
Runtime: 01:49:36
Netflix ID: 81383253 · Watch on Netflix

A father and his estranged son attempt to rekindle their fragile bond in this biopic of iconic Brazilian musicians Luiz Gonzaga and Gonzaguinha.

Year: 2012
Runtime: 02:10:24
Netflix ID: 81380287 · Watch on Netflix

This drama examines the corruption scandal that rocked Brazil — Operation Car Wash — from the perspective of its investigators.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:47:31
Netflix ID: 81489614 · Watch on Netflix