VIPs
A restless Brazilian impostor turns stolen aviation skills, criminal connections, and social audacity into a series of increasingly dangerous new identities.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- tense
- audacious
- restless
- crime drama night
- Brazilian cinema night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Marcelo poses as a pilot, cartel associate, and heir to an airline owner while moving through radically different social worlds.
Marcelo earns trust from drug traffickers, high society, and prisoners through confidence, improvisation, and leadership.
The Recife Carnival party exposes how easily Marcelo accesses television personalities and wealthy guests by claiming corporate inheritance.
Marcelo moves from isolated aviation learner to drug courier, celebrity impersonator, and prison leader through successive reinventions.
Films like VIPs, and why
The Counterfeiters
Brazilian biographical crime drama centered on a charismatic impostor and escalating criminal deception
Catch Me If You Can
Stylized true-life crime drama about reinvention, fraud, ambition, and an audacious protagonist
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Character-driven crime film about identity performance, social mobility, and criminal self-invention
Movie Details
- Director
- Toniko Melo
- Release Date
- 2011-03-25
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (122)
Cast
- Wagner Moura
- Gisele Fróes
- Roger Gobeth
- Arieta Corrêa
- Norival Rizzo
- Amaury Jr
- Emiliano Ruschel
- Marcela Falci
- Heitor Goldflus
- Cecília Homem de Mello
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is VIPs about?
- A restless Brazilian impostor turns stolen aviation skills, criminal connections, and social audacity into a series of increasingly dangerous new identities.
- What is VIPs like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of VIPs as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is VIPs violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in VIPs as mild.
- Which films are like VIPs?
- Films with a similar feel include The Counterfeiters, Catch Me If You Can, and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
- How long is VIPs?
- VIPs runs 95 minutes.
- Where can I watch VIPs?
- In United States, VIPs is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
