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The Boys from Brazil
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Brazil
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless… From TMDB
314 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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Brazil is a 1985 comedy science fiction film, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro and Katherine Helmond.
- 281 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span Apr 22, 2018 to Nov 4, 2026
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60 of 314 · most liked firstI enjoyed this idea that authoritarian states are more like the movie Brazil than the book 1984 - because authoritarianism breeds incompetence. observer.com/2025/02/terr...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm Still Here wins Best International Feature Film at the #Oscars This is the first win for Brazil in this category.
neutral · AI labelView post →‘I’m Still Here’ (Brazil) wins the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. #Oscars
neutral · AI labelView post →Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’M STILL HERE becomes the 5th Latin American film to win the #Oscar for Best International Feature Film and the first for Brazil. The others are: -THE OFFICIAL STORY 🇦🇷 -THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES 🇦🇷 -A FANTASTIC WOMAN 🇨🇱 -ROMA 🇲🇽
neutral · AI labelView post →I really love the movie Brazil and am always disappointed with how many people don't know it
positive · AI labelView post →The film is based on a true story set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, when Brazil was living under a military dictatorship.
neutral · AI labelView post →This was Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉 #Oscars 📍 Pelourinho, Salvador (via @neyrocha.bsky.social)
neutral · AI labelView post →Brazilian movie ‘I'm Still Here,’ set against the backdrop of the military dictatorship and recounting the true story of a mother of five whose husband disappears, made history by earning Brazil its first Oscar in a major category reut.rs/41Djn80 #Oscars2025
neutral · AI labelView post →Walter Salles wins the Academy Award for I'M STILL HERE, giving Brazil its first win for Best International Film #Oscars
neutral · AI labelView post →A key part of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, a sideways take on Orwell's 1984, is the kidnapping & interrogation/torture death of Archibald Buttle, because a typo has gotten him confused with the outlaw/guerilla HVAC repairman Archibald Tuttle. ICE embodies that incompetence/brutality venn diagram.
neutral · AI labelView post →Brazil is the movie that basically called what the future would look like: it’s crass, materialistic, everything runs like shit, the people in power are authoritarian buffoons, and it sort of limps on despite the fact that it should fall apart.
positive · AI labelView post →BRAZIL is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Roger Pratt One of the very great cinematographers. Brazil is a stunning, disturbing &, at times, beautiful dystopian movie because of his images in tandem with Terry Gilliam’s fevered imagination.The other shots are from Batman, The Fisher King & 12 Monkeys. Brazil is on Disney+. It’s amazing.
neutral · AI labelView post →The teams for World War III are Calvinball: Denmark, Sweden, Iran, Nigeria, Will Stancil, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, transsexuals, and the second Star Wars sequel trilogy movie versus USA, Israel, El Salvador, 4chan, incels, Hungary, and Chick-Fil-A.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉 #Oscars 📍 Rio de Janeiro
neutral · AI labelView post →The city of Rio Janeiro bought the house where they shot I’M STILL HERE and will turn it into a free-to-the-public Museum of Brazilian Cinema. The impact of this film is like nothing we’ve ever seen in Brazil. Incredible.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight for my FILM II class, Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL, a film that has, for the most part, been memory holed entirely by this generation, yet its vision of a stupid authoritarian dystopia seems as urgent as ever.
positive · AI labelView post →This was Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here. It was announced by Alcione, a Brazilian legend 🎉 #Oscars 📍 Marco Zero, Recife
neutral · AI labelView post →The announcement of I’m Still Here as #Oscars Best International Feature Film during the Carnival Parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
neutral · AI labelView post →If “Die Hard” is a Xmas movie, so is Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”. In this essay I will
neutral · AI labelView post →Linkin Park will release a concert film next year featuring footage from their São Paulo, Brazil dates of the From Zero World Tour.
neutral · AI labelView post →2025 Cannes Jury President Juliette Binoche surprises The Secret Agent's Wagner Moura with his Best Actor prize from this year's festival 🥹 The film will be released in Brazil on November 6.
neutral · AI labelView post →40 years ago, Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece, BRAZIL, hit theaters. Dive into the daffy, nightmarish design and behind-the-scenes battles that shaped this visionary film. A must-read for cinephiles and Gilliam fans: cinephiliabeyond.org/duct-soup-th...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m Still Here just won the Oscar for Best International Film. A true story of political repression set in 1970s Brazil, it has chilling resonance in 2025 USA. Still in theaters. This film is spectacular. Don’t miss it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now having seen Digger I find the bad and ambivalent reviews utterly depressing. It's so good it's like a 2025 movie, a year of great, weird films. I wonder if the response is like that to Don't Look Up--which was funny and smart and very good. Digger is Brazil to Don't Look Up's Dr Strangelove.
neutral · AI labelView post →The True Story Behind “I’m Still Here”, the Oscar Contender Pushing Brazil to Confront Its Dark Past, by @amkdurie.bsky.social jnascim.info/s6rMXD
neutral · AI labelView post →American health insurance is more fucked up than whatever they were doing in the movie Brazil.
neutral · AI labelView post →The reference was to Brazil the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →From directors including Kristen Stewart, Joachim Trier and Jafar Panahi, traversing Australia, Nigeria, Iran, Brazil and more, our crew selects fifteen highlights from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for your watchlists. Read the full story on Journal: boxd.it/2z6
neutral · AI labelView post →Brazil is a rare film where the comedic elements make it scarier rather than lessening the horror
positive · AI labelView post →watching Brazil for the first time, one of the Monty Python guys made a sexy movie about Carnival, I assume
neutral · AI labelView post →This isnt just reprehensible. This is some 'BRAZIL' level (movie not nation) BULLSHIT.
neutral · AI labelView post →That movie Brazil is really a masterpiece that predicts a world filled with technology but none of it fucking works.
positive · AI labelView post →If you can, do watch the movie "I'm Still Here", which is really about that period in Brazil.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tom Stoppard (with scenes from the Terry Gilliam film "Brazil" whose screenplay was coauthored by Stoppard) - RIP
neutral · AI labelView post →Congrats to Terry Gilliam, as his 1985 film Brazil predicted the future authoritarian aesthetic better than any other work of art
positive · AI labelView post →The reel of #Oscars Best International Feature Film of I’m Still Here was geoblocked by the Academy for those accessing it from Brazil 🤷♂️ (via @lucaslago.projeto7c0.com.br)
neutral · AI labelView post →Big ups to Brazil for rejuvenating BlueSky and winning the International Film Oscar in the same year. #Oscars
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw Brazil (the film) for the first time this weekend. It eerily speaks directly to our time, more than when it was released.
positive · AI labelView post →What a relief. Brazil ultimately selected THE SECRET AGENT as the country’s Oscar entry. It’s a masterful film. Happy for Kleber Mendonça Filho, who is one of the most brilliant filmmakers working today.
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, this seemed like an outtake from the third act of the movie Brazil or something.
neutral · AI labelView post →Whilst ORSON WELLES was away in Brazil making a Film for the U.S. Govt., studio execs were back in Hollywood butchering the edit on his hugely anticipated follow up to ‘Citizen Kane’. Welles remained forever furious. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942)
neutral · AI labelView post →At no point in this film does anyone 1. Go to Brazil 2. Mention Brazil 3. Reveal their from Brazil 4. Engage in actions or imagery evocative of Brazil 5. Do or say anything whatsoever related to Brazil
neutral · AI labelView post →In this disturbing scene from Terry Gilliam's 1985 dystopian movie "Brazil", government storm troopers drop into somebody's apartment through a hole cut in the ceiling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ5...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh so you've also seen Terry Gilliam's classic movie Brazil.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the plot of the 40-year-old dystopian fantasy film "Brazil," come to life. Surveillance states inevitably kill a lot of Archibald Buttles while looking for Archibald Tuttle.
neutral · AI labelView post →(I just saw Brazil again for the first time in awhile at Film Forum)
neutral · AI labelView post →in recent weeks i'm thinking about how Brazil was expected to swing toward Bolsanaro, or how one headline said that Laika's Wildwood would bomb ( before the movie was even out) though people showed up to vote and peopled turned out to see the movie. This is why you show up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched ‘I’m Still Here’ Walter Salles’ film about encroaching fascism in Brazil. Completely devastating. youtu.be/gDunV808Yf4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember a time that every American movie where criminals fled, somehow they ended up in Brazil or somewhere in South America. Great to watch the U.S. become the criminal resort of the world in this day and age for a change. 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig was adapted to film in 1985. The film is moved from Argentina to dictatorship Brazil. Book Molina is sexually ambiguous while the film makes him trans. The book's dialogue is given standard film conveyance. #booksky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of the 1985 movie Brazil?
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t wait for the Daily Wire movie dramatizing Flavio Bolsonaro’s bold escape from Brazil, with Jim Caviezel as both Jair & Flavio Bolsonaro, Zachary Levi as the completely-fictional CIA spec ops turned private security guy that got him out, and any Great American Family actress as Wife Character.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm intrigued to see what the new Peter Morgan adaptation of The Boys from Brazil will be like when it hits Netflix, the creepy 1978 original screens on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 10pm- Little Hitlers grow up into big Hitlers in this clone war. #TPTV film-authority.com/2026/09/20/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just got my film back from a month in #Brazil and I’m seriously questioning why I came home. #believeinfilm 🎞️
neutral · AI labelView post →Forget Die Hard. Brazil is the best Christmas film of all time!
positive · AI labelView post →They're doing the Torment Nexus tweet but with the movie Brazil
neutral · AI labelView post →(In fairness this is the LEAST disturbing of the myriad ways 2026 reality resembles the film Brazil.)
neutral · AI labelView post →BRAZIL is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →
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