Brazilian Cinema: 100 Defining Films

Recently i made a list of my favorite Brazilian films of the last 20 years (a period known as “retomada”/“rebirth”) for a poll on a website that i contribute to. With that in mind, i decided to embark on a more ambitious task: a list of a hundred titles that encapsulates my perceptions on what Brazilian cinema is (and what it should be). A cinema that is still so little known, even within its borders – maybe another reason that made me jump on this.

The list consists of films ranging from 1929 to 2012, which i think is a fair amount of time to cover in a list of 100 films (fair enough to make me leave a...