Elite Squad is coming to Tubi with force
José Padilha’s explosive crime drama brings Rio’s special ops unit into a story where every choice has a price.
Remind MeElite Squad arrives with the kind of reputation that follows a movie into every room. José Padilha’s 2007 crime drama takes us into Rio de Janeiro’s violent crossroads of police work, politics, and survival, where the line between duty and damage keeps getting thinner.
At its center are men who have witnessed corruption up close and choose the most dangerous possible answer: join BOPE, Rio’s special ops unit, and fight from inside the machine. The movie does not soften the cost of that choice.
Elite Squad is coming soon to Tubi. If your watchlist has room for a crime film that moves like a raid and lands like a confession, make space now.
The Cast
Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura plays Captain Nascimento as a man running on command, fear, and exhaustion. He is the film’s pressure gauge, pulling us through decisions that feel impossible in real time and even heavier once the adrenaline fades.
André Ramiro
André Ramiro’s André Matias gives the film its searching conscience. Matias enters the force with ideals still intact, and Ramiro makes every test of those ideals feel personal, from quiet doubt to the moment silence stops being an option.
Caio Junqueira
Caio Junqueira plays Neto Gouveia with restless loyalty. Neto wants action, clarity, and a way through a world that keeps moving the rules, and Junqueira gives him the urgency of someone who cannot look away from what is happening.
Milhem Cortaz
Milhem Cortaz brings Captain Fábio a slippery survival instinct. He understands how Rio’s power games work, which makes him both useful and dangerous, the kind of presence that keeps every room just a little more charged.
“In this city, the uniform is only the beginning.”
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Why Watch It
Elite Squad is built for viewers who like their action grounded, tense, and morally hot to the touch. The force of it comes from how close the camera feels to everything: the streets, the training, the fear, the fury, the choices nobody gets to make cleanly.
It is also a film with a pulse you can feel in the performances. Moura, Ramiro, Junqueira, and Cortaz each carry a different piece of the machine, and together they turn the story into more than a tactical thriller. It becomes a pressure test for loyalty, ambition, and what happens when justice starts borrowing the tools of power.
If City of God, Training Day, or Sicario sits anywhere near your personal crime-drama sweet spot, Elite Squad belongs on your radar before it arrives on Tubi.
More details
José Padilha
Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz, Fernanda Machado
Coming soon to Tubi