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The best Wagner Moura movies and series

The top 3 according to 84 votes from people: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) · Elite Squad (2007) · Carandiru (2003). (Updated Dec 21, 2024.)

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.

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Top 12

  1. 1

    Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)

    Nascimento, now a colonel, takes on the militias and politics.

    ▲ 7 ▼ 0

    7
  2. 2

    Elite Squad (2007)

    José Padilha: Captain Nascimento and the BOPE in Rio; Golden Bear at Berlin.

    ▲ 8 ▼ 2

    6
  3. 3

    Carandiru (2003)

    Hector Babenco: the São Paulo prison massacre.

    ▲ 6 ▼ 0

    6
  4. 4

    Narcos (2015)

    Pablo Escobar in Spanish learned from scratch; a Golden Globe nomination.

    ▲ 6 ▼ 1

    5
  5. 5

    Lower City (2005)

    Sérgio Machado: two friends and a woman in Salvador, with Lázaro Ramos and Alice Braga.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 0

    5
  6. 6

    God Is Brazilian (2003)

    Cacá Diegues: God takes a holiday and looks for a saint in the Northeast.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 0

    5
  7. 7

    Civil War (2024)

    Alex Garland: journalist Joel in an America at war with itself.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 1

    4
  8. 8

    Elysium (2013)

    Neill Blomkamp: hacker Spider alongside Matt Damon.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 1

    4
  9. 9

    Father's Chair (2012)

    A father crosses Brazil looking for his teenage son.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 1

    3
  10. 10

    Wasp Network (2019)

    Olivier Assayas: Cuban spies in Miami.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 1

    3
  11. 11

    Sergio (2020)

    Diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello in Baghdad, on Netflix.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 1

    2
  12. 12

    Ó Paí, Ó (2007)

    Monique Gardenberg: a Pelourinho tenement during Carnival.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2

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  1. 13

    Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007)

    Jorge Furtado: a southern Brazilian village makes a film to get a sewage system.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 3

    1
  2. 14

    Praia do Futuro (2014)

    Karim Aïnouz: a Fortaleza lifeguard moves to Berlin.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 2

    1
  3. 15

    The Middle of the World (2003)

    A family cycles from Paraíba to Rio.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 2

    0

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