This paper addresses the social issues in Brazilian cinema and its corpus consists of two films that, produced with almost 50 years between them, have the slums of Rio de Janeiro as locations and address the social problems of the excluded population of the big urban centers of Brazil. To understand the similarities and differences between the two productions, it was carried out a comparative study, in accordance with the structural analysis of narrative, from which it was possible to conclude that these movies have similarities in relation to the thematic axis, the linearity and documentary realism, but also differ in terms of how the slum population are shown as well as to the tone.
Brazilian Cinema; New Cinema; Resumption of the Brazilian Cinema; Film production; Social thematic
