10 international films recorded in Brazil

With its continental dimensions, Brazil is home to a rich and diverse culture that often eludes even Brazilians themselves, depending on their region of origin. This diversity makes the country highly recognizable internationally, although this perception is often limited by reductionist stereotypes.

Related to this outsider perspective, foreign cinema, particularly North American cinema, has played a significant role in shaping this vision.

Inspired by this perspective, we have collected 10 examples where foreigners have become interested in Brazil and chosen locations in the country as settings for their films. Next, check out the 10 international productions whose parts were filmed here.

As the Brazilian title itself reports, “Operação Rio” had parts recorded in various locations of the wonderful city (Morro do Pão de Açúcar, Forte de Copacabana, Praia de Ipanema, Favela Santa Marta and Cristo Redentore).

In the film, Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker) and their gang plan a grand heist in Rio de Janeiro to secure their ultimate freedom.

However, they are chased by Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and a corrupt businessman (Joaquim de Almeida).

Roger Moore plays secret agent James Bond in this film that follows the disappearance of a spaceship. Bond investigates Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), the billionaire who built the ship and who has Nazi plans to exterminate humanity and repopulate it with a “master race”.

The adventure takes agent 007 to several locations, including Rio de Janeiro. Most of the scenes in Brazil were actually filmed in Rio (Pão de Açúcar, Tom Jobim Airport, Aterro do Flamengo, Praia do Grumari). Filming also took place in Foz do Iguaçu and in the city of Mariana, Minas Gerais.

Despite being a foreign body, the film “The Incredible Hulk” is recognized as an integral part of the MCU, despite Edward Norton playing Bruce Banner instead of Mark Ruffalo.

Furthermore, the blockbuster had parts recorded in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Favela da Rocinha, Favela Tavares Bastos, Lapa, Floresta da Tijuca and Santa Teresa).

In the film, Banner (Norton) escapes from the military involved in the “super soldier” program and hides in Brazil, looking for a cure for the mutation that transforms him into the Hulk.

Directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, “The Expendables” brings together a selection of action movie stars (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis), with the aim of paying great homage to the exemplary specimens such. of the 80s and 90s.

The plot follows a group of elite mercenaries tasked with overthrowing a dictator in a generic Latin American country.

One of the places chosen to represent the imaginary Latin country is Brazil. The production was filmed in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Mangaratiba, Niterói, Guanabara Bay, Parque Lage) and in other uncredited locations in the country.

British production, “The Emerald Forest” is a drama and adventure film directed by John Boorman (“Bitter Nightmare”, “Excalibur”). The plot revolves around an American engineer who is in Brazil with his family to work on the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in the Amazon rainforest.

To take revenge for the devastation of the green areas caused by the works, an indigenous tribe kidnaps the engineer’s son, who begins to be raised by them. After 10 years, the father continues to look for his son in the Amazon.

Production of the film took place in several locations in Brazil. The main ones occurred in the state of Pará (Belém, at the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Plant, Carajás). Scenes were also filmed on the Araguaia River, in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro (Itatiaia, Paraty).

Filmed primarily in Rio de Janeiro, “Feitiço do Rio” is an American romantic comedy directed by Stanley Donen, the same author of the classic musical “Cantando na Chuva”.

The film stars Michael Caine, who plays an executive who travels on business with a friend (played by Bologna) and his daughter (Michelle Johnson) in Rio, but the young girl begins to seduce her father’s friend. The film also stars Valerie Harper, Demi Moore and José Lewgoy.

Wild Orchid (1989)

Erotic novel, “Wild Orchid” is a film directed by Zalman King and starring Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis and Jacqueline Bisset.

In the story, a young lawyer (Otis) travels on business with her entrepreneur (Bisset) to Rio de Janeiro. There she meets an American billionaire (Rourke) and begins having adventures of seduction.

The main locations of the film are in the city of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Bahia.

A horror film featuring a giant killer animal, “Anaconda” follows a group of documentary filmmakers who plan to film an Amazon tribe.

However, their guide (Jon Voight) is involved in a dangerous hunt for a legendary giant anaconda. The cast includes Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde and Owen Wilson.

The scenes in the Amazon rainforest were filmed in Manaus, in the state of Amazonas.

The famed Werner Herzog directed and wrote this German epic that follows an aspiring rubber baron determined to transport a steamship to an inaccessible location deep in the Amazon.

To do this, he brings the ship ashore, up a steep hill, with the help of the natives.

Starring Klaus Kinski, the film was shot in several locations in Manaus, Amazonas.

The fourth film in the Twilight saga has scenes shot in Brazil. In the plot, the honeymoon of the human Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and the vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) takes place in Brazil and the scenes take place in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Marina da Glória, Lapa and Paraty).

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