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Wagner Moura has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Elite Squad.
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The Last Castle
2001
Action · Drama

Rogue City
2020
Crime · Thriller

Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden
2012
Thriller · Action

Sky High
2020
Action · Drama

The Burning Sea
2021
Action · Thriller

The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Action · Drama

21 Bridges
2019
Crime · Action

Battle in Seattle
2007
Action · Drama

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 2%Peacock · Included

Elite Squad
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Secret Agent
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Hulu · Included

The Gray Man
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Netflix · Included

The Man from the Future
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Marighella
2021 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
Dir. Joel Crawford · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Harvey Guillén

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Dir. José Padilha · With Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.
Dir. José Padilha · With Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro

as Armando Solimões / Marcelo Alves / Adult Fernando Solimões
Hulu · Included
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho · With Wagner Moura, Alice Carvalho, Gabriel Leone

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
Dir. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo · With Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas

Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.
Dir. Cláudio Torres · With Wagner Moura, Alinne Moraes, Maria Luísa Mendonça

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
Dir. Wagner Moura · With Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luís, Gabriel Weinstein

When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Dir. Jorge Furtado · With Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Camila Pitanga

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Dir. Walter Salles · With Rodrigo Santoro, José Dumont, Rita Assemany

In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
Dir. Neill Blomkamp · With Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley

In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
Dir. Alex Garland · With Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Dir. Monique Gardenberg · With Lázaro Ramos, Dira Paes, Wagner Moura

Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present—and confront her past.
Dir. Silka Luisa · With Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura, Phillipa Soo
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. So He goes to the Northeast of Brazil, where He believes there's a very good man for the job. As soon as He comes down to Earth, a young man comes along to help on His quest.
Dir. Carlos Diegues · With Antônio Fagundes, Wagner Moura, Palomma Duarte

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
Dir. Greg Barker · With Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Garret Dillahunt
Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots. One day, he responds the call of a drug dealer and uses his boss' plane to help the man to transport his cargo. He is hired by the drug lord to work transporting drugs in his airplanes. When he is arrested by the Federal Police, he does not rat his gang and the leader of the cartel gives a large amount of money as a bonus and asks him to leave the gang since he is known by the police. Marcelo uses the money to promote a party in the Carnival of Recife pretending to be the son of the owner of the Gol (a Brazilian air flight company). He lures the high-society, including the television presenter Amaury Jr. Marcelo is arrested again and is sent to prison. During a rebellion, he uses his leadership to present the claims of the prisoners and help to control the situation.
Dir. Toniko Melo · With Wagner Moura, Gisele Fróes, Roger Gobeth

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal

Two lifelong friends in Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob small-time drug dealers. It's a perfect grift—until they choose the wrong mark and become targets of a massive narcotics enterprise.
Dir. Peter Craig · With Brian Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, Marin Ireland
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