Terry Gilliam’s blackly comic futuristic fantasy is set in an Orwellian world of all-pervasive bureaucratic suppression and lumbering 1940s technology, where Jonathan Pryce’s timid, contented underachiever pursues the girl of his dreams and falls murderously foul of the system. BRAZIL is funny, cruel, and relentless, and is filmed with tremendous visual invention and an almost fetishistic attention to the minutiae of its imagined world. Screenplay by Gilliam and Tom Stoppard. Striking cameo roles from De Niro, Bob Hoskins & Michael Palin.