Netflix Brazil Unveils Sintonia Spin-Off, Ronaldinho, Neymar Docs

Directors Fernando Coimbra (“A Wolf at the Door”) and top production houses Gullane (“Senna”), O2 Filmes (“City of God”) and Boutique Filmes (“3%”) feature among 10 new productions announced Monday by Netflix.

The new announcements matter. Netflix does not break out client figures for individual countries. Brazil ranks, however, as its second-biggest market globally with 20.6 million paid subscribers, according to global analyst Omdia estimates. That places it ahead of the U.K. (17.7 million), Germany (17.5 million), and France (14.6 million).

The unveils were made on the eve of Rio de Janeiro mega creativity forum Rio2C, where the U.S. SVOD leader will host a panel on the technological legacy of “Senna” and another on the power of reality show casting, underscored by its own “Stranded With My Mother-in-Law” Seasons 1 and 2.

O2 Filmes is producing high-tech doc series “Brazil 70” about the key match plays and journeys of Brazilian soccer players – Pele, Jarzinho, Carlos Alberto – during Brazil’s probably greatest FIFA World Cup triumph.

“Sintonia,” Netflix’s biggest Brazilian franchise whose final Season 5 dropped in February, will receive a movie spin-off continuing Nando’s story. Johnny Araújo directs again, Gullane produces once more. 

Scribe-helmer Coimbra and Gullane (“Noah’s Ark,” “The Second Mother”) reunite after “A Wolf at the Door” and “Carnival is Over,” on “Emergencia Radiactiva,” a mini-series inspired by the biggest non-nuclear-plant radioactive accident in history. 

Further new Netflix Brazil highlights announced Monday include biopics on soccer greats Ronaldinho and Neymar and Boutique Filmes’ fiction chronicle of a crime that rocked Brazil, the Elize Matsunaga case.  

To date in 2025, Netflix has already released island-set reality challenge contest “Stranded With My Mother in Law” Season 2, and three documentaries:…