Fernando Meirelles

Netflix drama that goes behind the Vatican walls as Pope Benedict (Anthony Hopkins) and the reformist Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce) attempt to forge a new path for the Catholic Church. Inspired by true events.

Director Fernando Meirelles' follow up to City Of God, based on the best selling novel by John Le Carre. Stars Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz (in an Oscar winning performance).

Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) combine for this globe-spanning romantic thriller starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins.

Set in a notorious slum of Rio de Janeiro, the film shone a spotlight on the hardships of being born into poverty and hammered home this brutality again and again with the perils of drugs, gun-toting pre-teens and other hideous forms of violence...