page_title: Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films
section_title: List
hierarchical_section_title: Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films / List
caption_attribution_description: Português: O cineasta brasileiro Nelson Pereira dos Santos. English: Brazilian film-director Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
context_page_description: In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association published a list with the 100 best Brazilian films ever according to the votes of its members. This poll was the basis for a book named The 100 Best Brazilian Films, published in 2016. The idea of the ranking and the book was suggested by publisher Letramento, with whom Abraccine and television network Canal Brasil co-released the book. The ranking was done based on individual lists done by Abraccine's 100 critics, who initially mentioned 379 films. The full list was first made available to the public on 26 November 2015, and the book was released on 1 September 2016.
  The list covers almost all decades between the 1930s and the 2010s, the only exception being the 1940s. A 1931 film, Mário Peixoto's Limite, is the oldest one and also the first ranked, while the most recent film is from 2015, Anna Muylaert's The Second Mother. The chanchada is represented by Carlos Manga's O Homem do Sputnik, while there is a plethora of 1960–1970s films, including Cinema Novo and Cinema marginal films. Almost one third of the films were from the Retomada period, and the list included not only feature films but also documentaries and short films.
caption: Nelson Pereira dos Santos has four films in the list, including the third-placed Barren Lives
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