Jardel Filho’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, harrowing, layered, gritty

Highest-ranked title
Jardel Filho has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Pixote.

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Dir. Héctor Babenco · With Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Dir. Glauber Rocha · With Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, José Lewgoy