Bacurau (2019)

We love a good allegory as much as the next person and in Bacurau (2019), directors Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho bring us a whopper of one about the current world we live in.  Set in a near future and/or mildly apocalyptic Brazil, we take a look at the small town that isn't on the map anymore called Bacurau and the resilient inhabitants who are struggling to survive with a lack of food, water, and supplies.  The residents are largely self sustaining, driving a water truck out of the village to grab the much needed source of life, as well as avoiding any trouble from the gangs that run the larger towns and metropolis' around them that have seemingly fallen into total social decay.  It's hard to keep the outside world from coming in though, and when they find some of the families outside of their village have been brutally slaughtered, they soon begin to realize that they might have trouble coming their way, and that trouble is coming in the form of a well armed and seemingly motivated only by a high body count band of marauders lead by a German bad guy (the always terrifying and excellent Udo Kier).  As the signs come from all around that trouble is coming for them, the towns people decide that they have to defend themselves with violence, in kind.  It's a modern western story at it's finest and even picked up the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2019.  As it's a Brazilian film, we certainly can't get away without a bit of butt in this one too, and we have a couple of full frontal scenes from some background artists like Edilson Silva.  Definitely no shortage of violence and sexiness in this post-apocalyptic vehicle!