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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
The direct follow-up expands Elite Squad’s hard-edged first-person intensity into a broader, equally unsparing look at institutional corruption and Nascimento’s escalating moral isolation.
02
Why this pick
A sprawling, humane prison drama that shares Elite Squad’s Brazilian institutional brutality, dense ensemble of compromised lives, and refusal to soften systemic violence.
03
Why this pick
Like Elite Squad, it finds tension in a violent hierarchy and makes institutional power feel immediate, physical, and morally corrosive.
04
Why this pick
Its grim procedural momentum and chilling focus on state forces adopting criminal methods closely match Elite Squad’s atmosphere of compromise and escalating menace.
05
Why this pick
Less kinetic but similarly politically charged, this Argentine crime drama uses a determined investigator to expose how violence and institutional failure linger across years.
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01 / THE STORY
Captain Roberto Nascimento (Wagner Moura), of Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, narrates the film, briefly explaining how the police and the drug lords of Rio de Janeiro cooperate with each other (policemen collect periodic bribes and drug lords are left free to operate) in the 1990s.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Capitão Nascimento
André Matias
Neto
Capitao Fabio
Coronel Otávio
Baiano
Maria
Roberta
