Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2, 2010) — watch online on iFILM: a Brazilian crime thriller directed by José Padilha, starring Wagner Moura. More politically charged than its predecessor and, at the time of release, the highest-grossing film in Brazilian box-office history.

After BOPE lieutenant-colonel Nascimento (Moura) dismantles Rio's drug trade, he's forced out by a human-rights activist who films his men executing prisoners. But clearing the favelas didn't end the violence — it just reorganized it. Corrupt military police moved in, built protection rackets, and pushed the money up to politicians with clean suits and clean hands. Nascimento understands exactly what happened. Proving it is something else.

Director Padilha — who later made the Netflix series Narcos — treats the police procedural as a X-ray of institutional rot. The first film won the Golden Bear at Berlin; the sequel went wider and angrier. Stream Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) online on iFILM.