The 40 most popular brazilian science fiction movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Beast Race
2026 · 2h 4m · BR
In future Rio de Janeiro, a young leader of the resistance must enter a deadly parkour-inspired competition in order to save his sister's life.


Blindness
2008 · 2h 1m · BR
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.


Passagem Secreta
2021 · 1h 35m · BR
Alice is forced to move alone to a small town, where she meets a new group of friends. While breaking into an amusement park to rescue one of her classmates, Alice discovers secrets about her identity and must make choices.


Blue Desert
2013 · 1h 34m · BR
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.
Acre-Doce
Acre-Doce
1986 · 45m · BR
No overview available


Loop
2019 · 1h 38m · BR
After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel then gives up his future and returns to the past. However, he is not the same man.


Três Vagabundos
1952 · 1h 22m · BR
A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.


King Car
2022 · 1h 39m · BR
Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.


Nuclear Shelter
1981 · 1h 25m · BR
Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.


The Blue Trail
2025 · 1h 26m · BR
To maximize economic productivity, the Brazilian government orders elderly people to move to remote housing colonies. A 77-year-old woman refuses and embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.


São Ateu
2022
No overview available


Bionic
2024 · 1h 50m · BR
When the progress of robotics makes Paralympic athletes the new sports stars, Maria dreams of competing against her sister. For that, she will have to enter a world of crime and violence.


Sideral
2021 · 15m · BR
In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.


Food Chain
2019 · 17m · BR
In an apocalyptic reality, the film proposes a visual metaphor based on Nature's revenge


Mynosy
2019 · 19m · BR
In a dystopian future, Joana tries to take care of her son, who contracted MYNOSY, the Mysterious Noise Syndrome.


O Hóspede
2011 · 18m · BR
In a hostel in the interior of Brazil, a strange guest and a mysterious incident leave the landlord restless and obsessed with finding out who that man is and what he is doing there.


Extraterrestrial Cat in Boots
1990 · 1h 25m · BR
A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard.


Luna 13
2016 · 17m · BR
A few days after his grandfather's death, young Igor decides to make a documentary about the history of his family in an attempt to understand why his grandfather, Guilhermino, was obsessed with strange facts that had happened in his city. Thus, in 1990, in the interior of the state Rio Grande do Sul, Igor and his father Nilson interview relatives, friends and people involved in the case in an attempt to undo the bad name of his grandfather, but what they find out is a part of the story of the state, unraveling mysteries related to extraterrestrials, failed space programs and a muddled mission of the Cold War.


Stellar Chronicles
2014 · BR
Amaryllis, an alien, came to our planet to prevent the Earth's destruction, as happens with her own planet, and to take revenge to the Greys, the race whom destroyed her kind.


Instant Doctor
2020 · 7m · BR
Did you ever wonder what will the future of health-care hold? How will advances in medical A.I. change our lives? Will algorithms eclipse doctors entirely? We hope not. Instant Doctor is a short film to show appreciation for doctors and health-care human workers everywhere.


Cassiopeia
1996 · 1h 20m · BR
The story of the planet Athena, located in the Cassiopeia constellation, which one day is attacked by space invaders who begin to suck its vital energy. A distress signal is sent into outer space by local astronomer Liza and picked up by four heroes who travel across the galaxy to save the planet.


Wistful Lover
1984 · 1h 54m · BR
Ana is going through psychological problems. She and lifelong friend Cléia decide to revisit the place they spent their childhood together in an attempt to get better results in her treatment. But they meet a stranger who will upset their plans.


GadgetGang in Outer Space
2017 · 1h 25m · BR
When a spaceship crashes to Earth and reveals a group of quirky little space aliens on the run for their lives, the "GadgetGang" kids-Gus, Phoebe, Francesco, Mitsue, Mary Ann, Banana and Tank-soon discover this won't be the boring weekend they had expected. They soon learn that in a point far from the galaxy, an evil warlord named Gana Golber has seized control of the Confederation of Planets and now all of the planets are in danger-including Earth!


Cycle
2022 · 1h 27m · BR
A science fiction and suspense feature that presents a frighteningly possible future, where things got even more out of control and what would be just a "quarantine" became the new and totally bizarre normal.


Forbidden World
2025 · 1h 35m · BR
A couple of space adventurers set off on a perilous journey across the galaxy in search of the mysterious Forbidden World.


Control Plan
2018 · 15m · BR
Set shortly after former President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, Control Plan follows a young Brazilian woman who uses her cell phone’s teleportation service to flee the country.


The Man from the Future
2011 · 1h 46m · BR
Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.


Tzubra Tzuma
1983 · 13m · BR
A bird-shaped nave flies over various places with different beliefs and religions.


Rio Mumbai
2017 · 1h 28m · BR
Nelson, a skeptical and disillusioned journalist, is having strange experiences. The old scientist who lives in his building tries to convince him that these events are linked to an old study of time travel. Nelson's wife Maria receives a logbook that reveals a timeless communication between them.


Oblivious Memory
2018 · 1h 35m · BR
Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the smell, the handwriting on the envelope: this could only be sent by his father, Ernesto, who has been dead for many years. A father who always created unusual situations. In this time warp, Carlos is split in two: one Carlos remembers and the other forgets the moments he spent with his father.


The Story of Clara Crocodile
1981 · 11m · BR
Transposition of Arrigo Barnabé's song "Clara Crocodilo" to film, with cartoon visuals. Clara Crocodilo is considered to be the public enemy #1, and he's waiting his execution at a state penitentiary. Meanwhile, the Radio Interferência eloquently narrates his story. Some strange characters come forth and even some voodoo rituals are performed to help the anti-hero. He manages to escape and disappears in the dark alleys of the city.


Magnética
2020 · 16m · BR
In a city inhabited by drawn beings, an indigenous boy witnesses a holographic appearance. It is the arrival of an entity of unknown materiality. With a mysterious presence and exotic allegories, it starts to enchant the residents, awakening their most insane senses.
Quarto 38
Quarto 38
2008 · 25m · BR
A group of friends find themselves circling in time. Welcome to room 38. Within it's confines time becomes scattered and loops back on it's self, memory becomes useless, and survival carries an entirely different meaning.


Barbosa
1988 · 13m · BR
Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career.


Adventures with Uncle Manuelo
1971 · 1h 35m · BR
Three boys and their uncle venture into the Amazon jungle in search of their missing grandfather who's been kidnapped by evil space robots!


Poeira
2026 · BR
No overview available


A Man Must Be Killed
1973 · 1h 30m · BR
Hasting, the right hand of Simon, the president of the Organization, has run for the elections, feeling the regime won't survive much longer. With no popular support, Simon gets elected by fraud. Hasting, now persecuted, is forced into exile. From his exile, through multiple armed attempts, he tries to reclaim his rightful position.


Gambiarra: O HD de Espadas
2019 · 30m · BR
No overview available


Bio
2017 · 1h 45m · BR
The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.


O Trapalhão no Planalto dos Macacos
1976 · 1h 26m · BR
This movie is a spoof of "Planet of the Apes" (1968) and follows the storyline of the original step by step - in spite of being a crazy parody of the original film. A group of men lands in a balloon on an area (it's not a planet, it's more like a hill) where talking apes rule and humans are slaves. The apes try to transform the guys in monkeys; a simian princess falls in love with one of them; and so on. This film is one of the several movies made for the popular Brazilian group "Os Trapalhões" - Didi (Renato Aragão), Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias (who at this point hadn't joined the troupe yet) -, many of them inspired by American blockbusters. It's a very fun entertainment, but the humor is very "local" to be understood in other countries. Oh, yeah, the ape "makeup" is terrible, but that's part of the fun. The movie doesn't take itself seriously.
Brazilian cinema's Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s tied filmmaking directly to social critique, a thread that runs through to the urban dramas that broke internationally in the 2000s.
Science fiction uses the future — or a plausible alternative present — to think through the current moment. It's produced some of cinema's most influential images, and the genre's biggest leaps have usually followed leaps in effects technology.