The Best Mother in the World
2025 · Movie · 105 min · ★ 7.1
A mother fleeing an abusive home sets out across São Paulo with her two young children, turning a frightening journey into a game to protect them. What begins as a desperate search for safety grows more dangerous when a promised refuge brings new risks.
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Details
- Original title
- A Melhor Mãe do Mundo
- Years
- 2025
- Release date
- 2025-08-07
- Language
- Portuguese
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (30 votes)
About
You may like this if you connect with grounded, emotional survival stories like Loveling or Linha de Passe, especially ones centered on family resilience under pressure; Not for you if stories involving abuse and children in danger feel too upsetting.
Pros: tense survival story; powerful maternal focus; moving sense of bravery | Cons: distressing abuse themes; heavy atmosphere; child peril throughout
Themes
- homelessness
- motherhood
- brazil
- black lives
- são paulo
Cast & crew
Shirley Cruz
as Gal
Seu Jorge
as Leandro
Rihanna Barbosa
as Rihanna
Benin Ayo
as João Victor
Rejane Faria
as Munda
Luedji Luna
as Valdete
Rubens Santos
as Anivaldo
Katiuscia Canoro
as Delegada
Lourenço Mutarelli
as Reginaldo
Ayomi Domenica
as Adjane
Directed by Anna Muylaert