Movies by Jose Padilha
As a director:
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
Cast: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro …
Directed by: Jose Padilha
Tenente-Coronel Nascimento, a hardened vet of Rio de Janeiro's drug wars, is now head of a special police unit. With his new title comes new responsibilities and dangers, which the…
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Garapa (2009)
Directed by: Jose Padilha
Filmmaker José Padilha journeys beyond dry global statistics and startling television images to examine in-depth the sustained, day-to-day effects that chronic malnutrition has on three…
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Secrets of the Tribe (2009)
Directed by: Jose Padilha
In the 1960s and '70s, a flood of researchers descended on the Amazon Basin to study the Yanomami Indians. Filmmaker José Padilha investigates the ongoing controversy over their…
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Elite Squad (2007)
Cast: Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Janqueira …
Directed by: Jose Padilha
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, some cops are just as crooked as the drug lords who run the slums. On the brink of retirement -- and burnout -- Capitão Nascimento (Wagner Moura) must find a…
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Bus 174 (2003)
Cast: Sandro do Nascimento, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Rodrigo Pimentel …
Directed by: Jose Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
This moving documentary depicts a fateful day in June 2000 when a Rio de Janeiro bus carrying 12 passengers was hijacked by a man named Sandro do Nascimento. Cameras rolled as he touted his…