Favela Movies

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

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

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

Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.

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

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...