# The best Wagner Moura movies and series

From Captain Nascimento in Elite Squad to Pablo Escobar in Narcos, by way of Lower City and Civil War: the Wagner Moura work recommended by Olhar Digital and TechTudo.

- 84 votes · 15 items
- Dec 21, 2024 · Isabela
- https://even.best/en/l/4306/the-best-wagner-moura-movies-and-series

## Top 12

1. **Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Nascimento, now a colonel, takes on the militias and politics.
2. **Elite Squad (2007)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — José Padilha: Captain Nascimento and the BOPE in Rio; Golden Bear at Berlin.
3. **Carandiru (2003)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Hector Babenco: the São Paulo prison massacre.
4. **Narcos (2015)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Pablo Escobar in Spanish learned from scratch; a Golden Globe nomination.
5. **Lower City (2005)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Sérgio Machado: two friends and a woman in Salvador, with Lázaro Ramos and Alice Braga.
6. **God Is Brazilian (2003)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Cacá Diegues: God takes a holiday and looks for a saint in the Northeast.
7. **Civil War (2024)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Alex Garland: journalist Joel in an America at war with itself.
8. **Elysium (2013)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Neill Blomkamp: hacker Spider alongside Matt Damon.
9. **Father's Chair (2012)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A father crosses Brazil looking for his teenage son.
10. **Wasp Network (2019)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Olivier Assayas: Cuban spies in Miami.
11. **Sergio (2020)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello in Baghdad, on Netflix.
12. **Ó Paí, Ó (2007)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Monique Gardenberg: a Pelourinho tenement during Carnival.
13. **Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007)** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Jorge Furtado: a southern Brazilian village makes a film to get a sewage system.
14. **Praia do Futuro (2014)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Karim Aïnouz: a Fortaleza lifeguard moves to Berlin.
15. **The Middle of the World (2003)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — A family cycles from Paraíba to Rio.

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