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Kleber Mendonça Filho

Brazilian film director

2.79body-of-work score · ranked #394 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
November 3, 1968 · Recife
Nationality
Brazil
Work
film director, film critic, audio engineer, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Kleber Mendonça Filho
Harald Krichel · CC BY-SA 4.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Secret AgentO Agente Secreto

    2025 · Brazil / France / Germany · drama, thriller

    Film Comment year-end poll 2025 #3 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 2025 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2025 #4

    1.383 citations
  2. 2
    Aquarius

    2015 · Brazil · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2016 #4 · Film Comment year-end poll 2016 #8

    0.752 citations
  3. 3
    Bacurau

    2019 · Brazil / France · sci-fi, drama, western

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2019 #4

    0.431 citation
  4. 4
    Neighbouring SoundsO Som ao Redor

    2012 · Brazil · thriller, drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2012 #20

    0.231 citation

Complete filmography

All 7 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.