Last Stop 174

Last Stop 174 (Última Parada 174, 2008) is a Brazilian crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Bruno Barreto — a reconstruction of the bus hijacking that played out live on Brazilian television on June 12, 2000.

Sandro grew up on Rio's streets, singing rap, dreaming about Copacabana. The film traces his path from the favelas to that afternoon on bus 174, where he held passengers at gunpoint as the whole country watched. Michel Gomes plays Sandro, and almost everyone else in the cast is a non-actor. It reads on screen.

Barreto made this as a fictional companion to José Padilha's 2002 documentary on the same events. Where the documentary asked why, the fiction asks who. Watch Last Stop 174 on iFILM.