a winner of the berlin festival golden bear award, tropa de elite, is a brazilian made film, written in portuguese with english subtitles - and more information can be found on the film's official website here.

directed by josé padilha, tropa de elite 2 (elite squad: the enemy within) (2010) is both an action film and a crime thriller.

set thirteen years after tropa de elite 1, again in the drug and crime - plagued favelas of rio de janeiro, the film examines the intertwined link between rio's violent crime scene and political and police corruption.