# The best Brazilian TV series

Brazilian series and miniseries with the best ratings on IMDb and AdoroCinema and the most mentions in lists by Olhar Digital, Terra and ShowMeTech, from broadcast TV to streaming.

- 13 votes · 20 items
- May 17, 2025 · E. Araújo
- https://even.best/en/l/301/the-best-brazilian-tv-series

## Top 20

1. **Under Pressure** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Globo, 2017–2022. Doctors at a Rio public hospital; rated 8.6 on IMDb and multi-award-winning.
2. **City of Men** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Globo, 2002–2005. Acerola and Laranjinha growing up in the favela, spun off from City of God.
3. **Cangaço Novo** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Prime Video, 2023. A São Paulo bank clerk discovers he is the son of a cangaceiro bandit in the sertão; 8.3 on IMDb.
4. **Os Normais** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Globo, 2001–2003. Fernanda Torres and Luiz Fernando Guimarães as a far-from-normal couple.
5. **Impuros** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Star+/Disney+, 2018–. The rise of a drug dealer in 1990s Rio; 8.1 on IMDb.
6. **O Auto da Compadecida (miniseries)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Globo, 1999. Guel Arraes adapts Ariano Suassuna; later re-edited into the 2000 film.
7. **Anos Rebeldes** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Globo, 1992. Students against the dictatorship; it became linked to the protests for Collor's impeachment.
8. **Sintonia** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Netflix, 2019–2025. Three friends from a São Paulo favela between funk music, drug dealing and the church.
9. **A Grande Família** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Globo, 2001–2014. Lineu, Nenê, Agostinho and Bebel; the longest-running sitcom on Brazilian TV.
10. **Os Outros** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Globoplay, 2023. A teenage fight in a Rio condominium spirals out of control; 8.1 on IMDb.
11. **3%** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Netflix, 2016–2020. Only 3% pass the Process and reach the Offshore; Netflix's first Brazilian series.
12. **Hoje É Dia de Maria** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Globo, 2005. Luiz Fernando Carvalho's miniseries of folk tales staged like puppet theatre.
13. **Justice** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Globo, 2016. Four stories that intersect in Recife, seven years after four convictions.
14. **Brotherhood** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Netflix, 2019–2022. Seu Jorge and Naruna Costa; a lawyer infiltrates her brother's gang in the 1990s.
15. **Sessão de Terapia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — GNT/Globoplay, 2012–2021. The Brazilian version of BeTipul, directed by Selton Mello.
16. **Good Morning, Verônica** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Netflix, 2020–2024. A São Paulo police clerk investigates a domestic serial killer.
17. **Criminal Code** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Netflix, 2023–. Federal police against huge robberies on the border with Paraguay.
18. **Todas as Mulheres do Mundo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Globoplay, 2020. Inspired by Domingos Oliveira's film; a man in love with all women.
19. **Aruanas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Globoplay, 2019–. Four environmental activists investigate crimes in the Amazon.
20. **Senna** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Netflix, 2024. Gabriel Leone as Ayrton Senna, from karting to Imola.

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