The best series and movies on Globoplay
One of the hardest things to do these days is to sit in front of a streaming and start watching something right away. To help you in this arduous task, here are 10 of the best series and movies on Globoplay, which are already completed. There's a lot of good stuff available on the platform right now, so we've chosen four excellent domestic options and another six from the North American market. Among the films, there are national productions of great quality and some of the biggest hits in Hollywood.
Series
The big family
Considered one of the best series ever made by Brazilian television, The big family shows us the adventures and troubles of the Silva family, a family that lives in the suburbs of the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. With a cast filled with stars such as Marco Nanini, Marieta Severo, Pedro Cardoso, Guta Stresser, Lúcio Mauro Filho, André Beltrão, Rogério Cardoso, Tonico Pereira, Marcos Oliveira, there were still many other emblematic professionals who entered and left the series.
The great success of the series is to be timeless, with messages valid for all moments, despite its focus on comedy. Watching Lineu's adventures to raise his children, and then retiring and seeing him feel useless until he finds a purpose, is quite interesting. Apart from the development of all the other characters.
The big family it is actually a second version based on the original that aired between 1972 and 1975. In total, the series ran for 14 seasons with 485 episodes and a movie. On Globoplay it is possible to watch from the tenth to the fourteenth season and also two more seasons of Big Family album, which focuses the stories on certain characters.
A série The big family and Big Family album are available on Globoplay.
jailers
A série jailers is based on the homonymous book written by Drauzio Varella and features Rodrigo Lombardi giving life to Adriano. In the course of the episodes, we see the routines and challenges that our protagonist has to be a prison warden, his second wife and a teenage daughter from his first marriage.
With big names like Othon Bastos, Ailton Graça, Tony Tornado and many others, jailers ran for two seasons, with a total of 29 episodes. In addition, a movie was also released, divided into four episodes when it was broadcast on TV, totaling 33 episodes. Thanks to his performance in the series, Lombardi was twice nominated for the Best of the Year award, from the now defunct Domingão do Faustão program. All episodes and the movie are on the platform.
The Jailers series is available on Globoplay.
double identity
Bruno Gagliasso is the great star of Dual Identity. In the series, he gives life to Edu, a good-looking young man loved by everyone, especially his girlfriend, Ray. However, what no one knows, is that behind the facade of the good guy, there is a murderer. In his hunt is Delegado Dias, who wants to rise to the top and become secretary of public security. His desperation is such that he accepts the help of Dr. Vera Muller, forensic psychologist and former lover of the chief.
Débora Falabella in the role of Ray, Marcelo Novaes as Delegado Dias, Luana Piovani as Dr. Muller, and other names in this great cast, Double Identity consists of thirteen episodes. In addition to Brazil, the series has already been shown in the United States, Spain, China, South Korea and many other countries.
The Dupla Identidade series is available on Globoplay.
Happy forever?
The series revolves around the luxury prostitute Danny Bond, hired by the troubled couple Marília and Cláudio to fulfill a sexual fantasy. However, not everything goes according to plan and a series of intrigues begins. In addition, we got to know the other members of the Drummond family, and we started to follow their dramas and problems.
Starring Paolla Oliveira, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Enrique Diaz and others, Happy forever? has ten episodes available on the Globo service. The series has already been shown in Portugal, Uruguay, Peru and some Central American countries.
The Happily Ever After series? is available on Globoplay.
House
Starred by English actor Hugh Laurie, House shows the routine of the grumpy doctor of the same name at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital alongside three brilliant doctors, treated as his lackeys, and his best friend, oncologist Dr. James Wilson, played by Robert Sean Leonard, known for the film Dead Poets Society.
The series has two distinct phases and shows House's addiction to Vicodin as he mistreats all his patients and unravels some of the greatest medical mysteries ever seen. Hugh Laurie was twice awarded a Golden Globe for his performance in House.
With a total of 177 episodes spread over 8 seasons, House is one of the best medical dramas available today.
The House series is available on Globoplay.
How I Met Your Mother
The series has as its main protagonist the architect Ted Mosby, who lives with his college friend, Marshal Eriksen, and his future fiancée, Lily Aldrin. In addition to them, Robin Scherbatsky, a Canadian journalist, and womanizer Barney Stinson complete the group. the focus of How I Met Your Mother it's 2030's Ted telling his kids how he met the Mother, or "The Special" as she's often referred to in the series.
Despite having a focus on comedy, there are many moral lessons and teachings along the way. With a narrative full of interludes, comings and goings to the past, present and future, HIMYM, as it is known by fans, was nominated for 91 awards, having won 21. The series has 9 seasons and a total of 208 episodes.
The How I Met Your Mother series is available on Globoplay.
Lost
Lost was the series responsible for forever changing the way we consume this type of media. Created by Jeffrey Lieber, JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof, Lost brought the mysteries about Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 that crashed on a desert island. The group of survivors was then led by physician Jack Shepard and John Locke.
The way Lost changed the game forever was to emerge during the tree of social networks. That is, people could communicate almost instantly and thus debate ideas and theories about the events of the week's episode. This made many other broadcasters bet on “their own Lost” as the series Heroes, which had an excellent first season and got lost along the way.
With names like Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, and many others, including the Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro, the series is available in its entirety on Globoplay + Canals and has 121 episodes divided into 6 seasons.
The Lost series is available on Globoplay.
The mentalist
Patrick Jane is a mentalist, who, according to the dictionary, is one who has alleged powers of reading or controlling other people's minds. He also has a mastery of hypnosis and was always beating people up, whether in the circus, where he started, or in large show houses. However, in a thoughtless action, he decided to face the killer known as Red John, who, to punish Jane, killed her entire family.
After experiencing her grief deeply, Jane starts working as a consultant for the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation, California Research Center, in literal translation) next to agent Teresa Lisbon. Despite following the “villain of the week” format, the character development makes it worth the 151 episodes divided into 7 seasons.
The Mentalist series is available on Globoplay.
Person of interest
Imagine that there is a computer that can detect if some kind of lawless act can happen. This is the premise of Person of interest. The series stars Michael Emerson, who plays Harold Finch, and Jim Caviezel, who takes on the role of John Reese, a former CIA agent and Green Beret. Together they try to solve several cases, either arresting the culprits or saving the people identified by the computer.
The series was created by Jonathan Nolan, brother of Christopher Nolan and also creator of Westworld, which airs on HBO, and is executive produced by JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk, among others. One of the main focuses of the series is to show how vulnerable we are and how our information is spread across the network, among other topics.
Person of interest had a total of 103 episodes divided into 5 seasons. The production was nominated for several awards, and won the People's Choice Awards of 2012.
The Pessoa of Interest series is available on Globoplay.
Everybody hates Chris
Brooklyn, 1982. Here begins the journey of young Chris in the neighborhood of Bedstuy. The series presents us with a version that mixes real facts with elements of fiction to tell the childhood of comedian Chris Rock. Chris' family consists of Julius, his father with two jobs, Rochelle, his mother who brags about her husband having two jobs, Drew, a middle brother who always gets along with everything, and young Tonya, who is always looking for ways to blame our hero for something.
In addition to them, the series presents us with other great characters, such as Greg, the protagonist's white and Jewish best friend, and their nemesis, in the form of the troublemaker Caruso, among many others. Because it is a work with a biographical nature, Chris Rock thought it best to finish the series and ended up with only 88 episodes divided into 4 seasons.
The series Everybody Hates Chris is available on Globoplay.
Honorable mentions
A série SWAT features the adventures of Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, former navy soldier and current squadron leader. Still airing on its original channel, CBS, the series currently has 5 seasons, but only two are available on the platform.
The SWAT series is available on Globoplay.
New Amsterdam Its protagonist is the doctor Dr. Max Goodwin, who has just taken over the New Armsterdam Hospital, at the same time discovers that he has a very serious illness, in addition to facing marital problems. With 3 seasons available on the platform, the fourth and current one is airing on NBC.
The New Amsterdam series is available on Globoplay.
The Good Doctor stars Freddie Highmore in the role of Shaun Murphy, a doctor with autism and Savant Syndrome and given a chance to be a resident physician at San Jose St. Bonaventure. The series is an adaptation by David Shore, creator of House, of an original series from South Korea. With 4 seasons available on Globoplay, the fifth season is being broadcast on ABC.
The Good Doctor series is available on Globoplay.
Content
Dunkirk
Directed by Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk presents us with one of the most intense real battles of World War II. The film presents us with the advance of Adolf Hitler's army over France until they corner French and British soldiers on a beach. The conflict lasted about 10 days and more than 300 soldiers had to be evacuated by sea.
Dunkirk brings in its cast names like Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Jack Lowden and a great cast. With a budget of $100 million dollars, the film made over $526 million at the box office and was nominated for 8 Oscars.
The Dunkirk movie is available on Globoplay.
Gravity
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney share stardom in Gravity. Bullock brings Dr. Ryan Stone, while Clooney is Matt Kowalski, an astronaut. Together they go into space on a mission to repair the Hubble telescope. However, not everything goes as expected, together they must fight for their own survival.
The film was nominated for 10 Oscars, and director Alfonso Cuarón took the award in its category, taking 7 statuettes in total. Its production cost $100 million dollars and grossed over $720 million dollars.
The movie Gravity is available on Globoplay.
Interstellar
Another Christopher Nolan movie made our list. Interstellar shows us a future where planet Earth is running out of resources to house its entire population. This forces NASA to send a team of astronauts to check planets that might be habitable. Star Matthew McConaughey plays Joseph “Coop” Cooper, a former NASA pilot who lives on a farm with his family. He is then forced to leave everything behind and face the mission to find a new planet for humans.
With an estimated cost of $165 million dollars, Interstellar grossed over $675 million dollars and was nominated for 5 Oscars, taking the statuette for best visual effects.
The movie Interstellar is available on Globoplay.
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino visits WWII. That might sum up Inglourious Basterds. The film brings us two plans to kill Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, one with a group of soldiers and the other in a movie theater.
One of the great merits of the film is its convincing performances, especially by Christoph Waltz in the role of SS Colonel Hans Landa, who stole the show and won an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for the role. In addition, there is a cast filled with stars, such as Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl among others.
The film is available on Globoplay.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
One fine day, Alex Vreeke is given a board game, but he promptly puts it down. The next day, he notices that when he opens the game box, there is a cartridge. When you turn on the video game, a light appears and we jump about 20 years into the future. Then we meet four teenagers who end up getting into trouble at school, and are forced to sort recyclables in a basement. There they find the same video game as Alex, and together they end up in Jumanji. However, each of them assumes a different role.
The main cast of Jumanji consists of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan and Nick Jonas. The film cost approximately $90 million and had a box office of nearly $1 billion.
The movie Jumanji is available on Globoplay.
Monica's Gang: Ties
When thinking about Brazilian comics, A Turma da Mônica is the first work that comes to mind. Maurício de Sousa created a true Brazilian empire with characters that can be related to our own community. After entering numerous markets, cinema was missing.
Laços was first born as a special edition that participated in a project called Mauricio de Sousa by 50 artists and was written by Vitor and Lu Cafaggi. In the story, Floquinho, Cebolinha's green dog disappeared, and the gang gets together to find his whereabouts. The film stars Giulia Benite, Kevin Vechiatto, Laura Rauseo and Gabriel Moreira and a great cast, such as Rodrigo Santoro, in the role of the Crazy, Monica Iozzi, as Dona Luisa de Sousa, Paulo Vilhena, as Seu Cebola da Silva, among others.
The movie Monica's Gang: Ties is available on Globoplay.
Elite Troop 1 and 2
The film is freely inspired by the book Elite da Tropa, written by André Batista, Rodrigo Pimentel and Luiz Eduardo Soares, and stars Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira and a great cast. According to a survey carried out by IBOPE at the time of the launch, more than 11 million people watched illegally.
Tropa de Elite focuses on the military police of Rio de Janeiro and the BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) in 1997, during a visit by Pope John Paul II. The success was so great that it yielded a sequel, which shows the main character, Captain Nascimento, working at the Public Security Department.
The film Elite squad 1 e Elite squad 2 are available on Globoplay.
The Car of Compadecida
Based on the work of Ariano Suassuna and with a stellar cast, with names like Selton Mello, Matheus Nachtergaele, Marco Nanini, Rogério Cardoso and a great cast, O Auto da Compadecida is one of the great Brazilian films. In the story we follow the adventures of Chicó and João Grilo, two friends who do everything to survive in the countryside of Paraíba.
Auto da Compadecida won a series of awards at the Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil, as best director, for Guel Arraes, best actor, for Matheus Nachtergaele, among others. The film has an 8,7 rating on IMDB and 95% audience approval on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie O Auto da Compadecida is available on Globoplay.
My Mother Is a Play, trilogy
My mother is a play is a trilogy of films starring the brilliant Paulo Gustavo, who plays Dona Hermínia Amaral. Each of the films presents us with a period of this mother's life. The film is based on the play that was created, developed and starring Paulo Gustavo.
In addition to Paulo Gustavo, who is unfortunately no longer with us, a victim of the coronavirus, the films have the participation of Herson Capri, Ingrid Guimarães, and a great cast.
the movies My mother is a piece, My Mother is a Piece 2 e My Mother is a Piece 3 are available on Globoplay.
O Resgate do Soldado Ryan
During the events of World War II, shortly after the attack on Normandy, Captain John H. Miller is given a mission: to find and ensure the safety of Private James Ryan. In the course of the story, we discover that Ryan is the last survivor of a family of four brothers who went to fight in the war.
Starring Tom Hamks and accompanied by several stars such as Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore and many others, the film is loosely based on the story of the Niland brothers. The work cost about $70 million dollars and grossed over $480 million dollars.
The movie Saving Private Ryan is available on Globoplay.
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