Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as Brazil. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
Both films sit with loss of innocence and feeling powerless. They share the same lens on class and money, corrupt institutions, and life under oppression. The feel is the same: bleak, dark comedy, escalating, and episodic.
