# List of Brazilian films of 2001

A list of films produced in Brazil in 2001 (see 2001 in film). Brazil produced 30 films in 2001.

## 2001

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 3 Histórias da Bahia | José Araripe Jr., Edyala Iglesias, Sérgio Machado | Sérgio Mamberti, Rita Assemany, Cyria Coentro, Ingra Liberato, Othon Bastos | Drama | |
| Antônio Dias: O País Inventado | Leila Hipólito | Achille Bonito Oliva, Paulo Sérgio Duarte, Paulo Herkenhoff, Catherine Millet | Documentary | |
| Artesãos da Morte | Miriam Chnaiderman | | Documentary | Short film |
| Artifícios | Rafael Primot, Flavia Rea | Paulo Autran, Rafael Primot, Marcela Rafea | | Short film |
| As Aventuras de Lucrécio no Mundo da Paquera | Luís Mingau | Pedro Perazzo, Rodrigo Luna, José Carlos Zeqa, Leo Abreu | Comedy | Short film |
| Atrocidades Maravilhosas | Lula Carvalho, Renato Martins, Pedro Peregrino | | Documentary | Short film |
| Before Take Off | Thiago da Costa | Alan Pontes, Guilherme Biazotto, Marina Velloso, Priscilla Rozenbaum, Adriano Martins, Felipe Cardoso | Drama | Short film |
| Behind the Sun | Walter Salles | Rodrigo Santoro, José Dumont, Rita Assemany | Drama | Produced by Arthur Cohn |
| Bellini and the Sphinx | Roberto Santucci | Fábio Assunção, Malu Mader, Maristane Dresch | Crime | |
| Bufo and Spallanzani | Flavio R. Tambellini | José Mayer, Tony Ramos, Isabel Guéron | Thriller | Co-production with Portugal |
| Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil | Guel Arraes | Selton Mello, Camila Pitanga, Deborah Secco | Romantic comedy | |
| Copacabana | Carla Camurati | Marco Nanini | Drama | |
| Um Crime Nobre | Walter Lima, Jr. | Ornella Muti, Reginaldo Faria, Alessandra Negrini | Drama | |
| Days of Nietzsche in Turin | Júlio Bressane | Fernando Eiras | Biographical drama | |
| Duralex sedlex | Henrique Silveira, Luciana Tanure, Marília Rocha | Aparecida Uemoto Maia, Claudio Manoel Uemoto Maia, Helena Uemoto Maia, José Uemoto Maia, Rosângela Uemoto Maia Schwarzer | Documentary | |
| Festive Land: Carnaval in Bahia | Carolina Moraes-Liu | Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, Vovô, Roberto Albergaria, Armandinho, Milton Moura | Documentary | |
| The Happy Cricket | Walbercy Ribas | Vagner Fagundes, Araken Saldanha, Régis Monteiro, Fátima Noya, Letícia Quinto | Animated feature | Spent over 20 years in development |
| A Hidden Life | Suzana Amaral | Sabrina Greve | Drama | Entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Maids | Fernando Meirelles, Nando Olival | Cláudia Missura, Graziella Moretto, Lena Roque, Olivia Araújo, Renata Melo, Robson Nunes, Tiago Moraes | Comedy | |
| Marighella - Retrato Falado do Guerrilheiro | Silvio Tendler | | Documentary | About the life of Carlos Marighella |
| Memórias Póstumas | André Klotzel | Reginaldo Faria, Petrônio Gontijo, Viétia Rocha, Sônia Braga | Comedy drama | Based on The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas |
| My Life in Your Hands | José Antônio Garcia | Maria Zilda Bethlem, Caco Ciocler | Drama | |
| Netto Loses His Soul | Tabajara Ruas, Beto Souza | Werner Schünemann | War film | Depicts Antônio de Sousa Neto in the Paraguayan War |
| Possible Loves | Sandra Werneck | Murilo Benício, Carolina Ferraz | Romantic comedy | |
| A Samba for Sherlock | Miguel Faria, Jr. | Joaquim de Almeida, Marco Nanini, Anthony O'Donnell, Maria de Medeiros | Comedy | Co-production with Portugal |
| Samba Riachão | Jorge Alfredo | | Documentary | |
| Timor Lorosae: The Unseen Massacre | Lucélia Santos | Lucélia Santos | Documentary | |
| To the Left of the Father | Luiz Fernando Carvalho | Selton Mello, Raul Cortez, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Simone Spoladore, Leonardo Medeiros, Caio Blat | Drama | |
| The Trespasser | Beto Brant | Marco Ricca, Alexandre Borges, Paulo Miklos, Mariana Ximenes, Malu Mader | Thriller | |
| Tropical Dreams | André Sturm | Carolina Kasting, Bruno Giordano | Drama | |
| Window of the Soul | João Jardim, Walter Carvalho | José Saramago, Hermeto Pascoal, Oliver Sacks, Wim Wenders | Documentary | |
| Xuxa e os Duendes | Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Rogério Gomes, Márcio Vito | Xuxa, Gugu Liberato, Angélica | Children's film | |