Category: South American

• The Secret Agent (2025) dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

  4–6 minutes

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  January 21, 2026

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  2020s, International, Movies at the Riv, New, South American, Thriller

  Wagner Moura proves himself as one of the finest actors working today in this subversive and darkly comedic take on the 1970s Brazilian dictatorship crackdown.

  

• City of God (2002) dir. Fernando Meirelles and Katía Lund

  3–5 minutes

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  December 26, 2025

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  2000s, South American, Thriller

  This shocking and engrossing film about the tragic cycle of violence is full of energy, gripping you from the start and never letting you go. Ho-ly shit. Typically, when my dad recommends a movie he watched on the plane, I tend to view it with a bit of skepticism. The last two movies he told…