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José Padilha

José Padilha
Country: Brazil
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 10 (Director), 4 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010. Nascimento faces a new enemy: the militias. In clashing with the system that dominates the Rio de Janeiro, he discovers that the problem is much bigger than he thought. And not only that. He needs to balance the challenge of pacifying a city occupied by crime with the constant concern for a teenager. When the universes of the personal and professional meet, the result is explosive. (entretenimento.r7.com)
Elite Squad
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged. Captain Nascimento is trying to find a man to replace him because his wife is pregnant and he intends to quit the command and become a trainer of the new recruits... (imdb)
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Bus 174
In the summer of 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, a 21-year-old hijacked a commuter bus and held its passengers hostage. The police were flummoxed as local TV crews arrived en masse to cover the headline-grabbing events as they unfolded. BUS 174 balances this potentially sensationalistic material with accounts by the police, the victims, the witnesses and friends and family of the hijacker. (Film Forum)
The Charcoal People
Documentary about the rural population who earn their living as coal miners, thus helping to keep metallurgic activity going and contributing to the forest devastation in South America.
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