The series Tremembé has caused a buzz on social media by showing the daily life of famous people in prison with its famous criminals, such as Suzane von Richthofen, Elize Matsunaga, Alexandre Nardonios Cravinhos brothers e Roger Abdelmassih.
But the Prime Video series isn't the only one true crime Brazilian. Cinema, since at least the 1960s, has portrayed the stories of the country's most famous criminals and crimes.
O Monday Cinemathen, shows 7 films based on real stories about crimes that happened in Brazil.
Tremembé It is not Suzane von Richthofen's audiovisual debut. The mastermind behind her parents' death in 2002 was represented in three films and a series, also on Prime Video.
The Girl Who Killed Her Parents e The Boy Who Killed My Parentsreleased in 2021, tell the story from different sides: one from Suzane's point of view, and the other from her boyfriend at the time, Daniel Cravinhos.
Two years later, The Girl Who Killed Her Parents: The Confession proposed to show behind the scenes of the investigation. The three films, and the series released in 2024, have Carla Diaz like Susanne.
Park Maniac was the name given to Francisco de Assis Pereira, who raped and killed at least 7 women in the late 90s in Parque do Estado, in São Paulo.
The story became a film in 2024, with Silvero Pereira in the lead role. The film was directed by Mauricio Eça, the same director of the trilogy The Girl Who Killed Her Parents.
The Red Light Banditdirected by Rogério Sganzerla in 1968, is a classic of Brazilian marginal cinema. The film is inspired by the story of João Acácio Pereira da Costa, a robber, rapist and murderer who earned his famous nickname for committing his crimes using a flashlight with reddish light.
In the cinema, the criminal is played by Pablo Villaça. The film entered the list of 100 best Brazilian films of all timecreated by the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine).
Hector Babenco directs this other classic of Brazilian cinema, released in 1977. Reginaldo Faria plays the bandit Lúcio Flávio Vilar Lyrio, who became famous in the 70s after committing bank robberies and homicides.
Lúcio Flávio told his story in detail to the writer José Loureiro, who published the book on which Babenco's film was based.
20 years ago, a crime shocked Brazil due to its audacity. Bandits dug a tunnel and took more than R$160 million from the Central Bank headquarters in Fortaleza. The case was taken to the cinema in 2011, directed by Marcos Paulo (himself, Antonia Fontenelle's ex).
The story of The Wolf Behind the Door It may not be as famous as the others on this list, but it made a film directed in 2013 by Fernando Coimbra, with Leandra Leal, Milhem Cortaz and Fabiula Nascimento.
The story is inspired by Penha Beasta crime that involved a love triangle and the disappearance of a child in the 60s, in Rio de Janeiro.
This story seems like it was born for the cinema. In the late 1980s, a man hijacks a VASP flight with more than 100 people on board. The objective: to throw the plane into the Palácio do Planalto, in Brasília, to kill President José Sarney.
The film was released in 2023, with Marcus Baldini.
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