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Fast Five
2011 film directed by Justin Lin
Moonraker
1979 film by Lewis Gilbert
The Mission
1986 film directed by Roland Joffé
Batman & Robin
1997 film directed by Joel Schumacher
Anaconda
1997 film directed by Luis Llosa
Rush
2013 film directed by Ron Howard
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo () is a 1982 epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irish would-be rubber baron known in Peru as "Fitzcarraldo", who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin, with the ultimate goal of using the wealth to build an opera house in the area. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once had a disassembled steamboat transported over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald by natives.
The Rundown
2003 film by Peter Berg
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016 film directed by Dave Green
XXX: Return of Xander Cage
XXX: Return of Xander Cage is a 2017 American action spy film directed by D.J. Caruso and written by F. Scott Frazier. The third installment in the XXX film series and a sequel to both XXX (2002) and XXX: State of the Union (2005), it stars Vin Diesel in the title role along with Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Toni Collette, Ariadna Gutiérrez, Hermione Corfield, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Jungle Cruise
2021 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
The Lost City of Z
2016 film directed by James Gray
The Lost World
1925 film directed by Harry O. Hoyt
Dhoom 2
2006 film directed by Sanjay Gadhvi
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954 American monster film
That Man from Rio
1964 film directed by Philippe de Broca
Blindness
2008 film directed by Fernando Meirelles
Stigmata
1999 film directed by Rupert Wainwright
Triple Frontier
2019 film directed by J. C. Chandor
Largo Winch
2008 film by Jérôme Salle
Medicine Man
1992 film by John McTiernan
Mr. Magoo
1997 film directed by Stanley Tong
The Emerald Forest
1985 film by John Boorman
All the Way, Boys
1972 film by Giuseppe Colizzi
Cannibal Ferox
1981 film directed by Umberto Lenzi
Bacurau
) is a 2019 surreal Weird Western film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Starring Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, and Karine Teles, it revolves around the fictional small town of Bacurau, in the Brazilian sertão, that is beset by strange happenings following the death of its matriarch Carmelita (Lia de Itamaracá) at the age of 94.
Turistas
Turistas (; English: Tourists, released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Paradise Lost) is a 2006 American horror film produced and directed by John Stockwell, written by Michael Arlen Ross, and starring Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Max Brown, and Beau Garrett. Its plot focuses on a group of international backpackers in Brazil who find themselves in the clutches of an underground organ trafficking ring.
United Passions
2014 film directed by Frédéric Auburtin
The Naked Jungle
1954 film by Byron Haskin
Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!
2018 film directed by David Stoten
Woman on Top
2000 film by Fina Torres
Black God, White Devil
1964 film by Glauber Rocha
Emmanuelle 4
1984 film by Francis Leroi and Iris Letans
Only the Strong
1993 film by Sheldon Lettich
Brichos
Brichos is a 2007 Brazilian animated film directed by Paulo Munhoz.
The Game of Their Lives
2005 film directed by David Anspaugh
Four Days in September
1997 film by Bruno Barreto
Young Toscanini
1988 film by Franco Zeffirelli
Before Dawn
2016 film directed by Maria Schrader
Xingu
2011 film directed by Cao Hamburger
O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro
1969 film by Glauber Rocha
We Feed the World
2005 documentary film directed by Erwin Wagenhofer
Brazil
1944 film by Joseph Santley
Balls Up
Balls Up is a 2026 American action comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser, Benjamin Bratt, Eva De Dominici, Daniela Melchior, Molly Shannon, and Sacha Baron Cohen.
A Handful of Dust
1988 film by Charles Sturridge
The Burning Season
1994 film directed by John Frankenheimer
Barren Lives
1963 film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Falcon Rising
2014 film by Ernie Barbarash
Amazon
1990 film by Mika Kaurismäki
The Sandpit Generals
1971 film by Hall Bartlett
Meet the Applegates
1991 film by Michael Lehmann
Bossa Nova
2000 Brazilian film directed by Bruno Barreto
Reaching for the Moon
2013 film by Bruno Barreto
Seashore
2015 Brazilian drama film directed by Filipe Matzembacher
Green Hell
1940 film by James Whale
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
1985 film by Michele Massimo Tarantini
The 5th Monkey
1990 film by Éric Rochat
Eve
1968 film directed by Robert Lynn
O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta
2005 film by Bruno Barreto
OSS 117 takes a vacation
1970 film by Pierre Kalfon