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‘Squid Game’ on Netflix has caught the imagination of global audiences as few other television shows have. The South Korean show focuses on 456 debt-ridden individuals. A mysterious, charming-looking man invites them to play a “game”. The organizers take them to an unknown location on a remote island. Masked soldiers, bearing circle, triangle, and square shapes, order them around. What is unknown to the desperate participants is that the prize money is comprised of each of their lives. ‘Squid Game’ puts itself beyond the survival genre and speaks to larger issues in society like capitalism and the class divide.

Its moral turpitude beautifully mixes a stirring test of human empathy and ethical dilemmas when participants are asked to kill someone to progress. We decided to bring you some of our picks, some of which are similar to ‘Squid Game’ in terms of plot, while others are raging anti-capitalism critiques. Happy reading.

Brazil’s Boutique Filmes, whose 2016 series “3%” was Netflix’s first big non-English-language international breakout ever, is teaming to produce “O Mistério do Cinco Estrelas” with Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes (“Silent Cargo”) and director Diego Freitas.

Adapting celebrated Brazilian writer Marco Rey’s “O Mistério do Cinco Estrelas” is a murder-mystery set in a luxury hotel.

Announced on the first day of Brazil’s Rio2C where Boutique Filmes’ founder-producer Tiago Mello will serve as a mentor on May 28, “O Mistério do Cinco Estrelas” marks the second of two movies from Boutique announced in the space of two days. On Tuesday, Boutique unveiled “O Gênio do Crime,” a co-production with Globo Filmes which follows the adventures of Gordo’s Gang, a group of children who decide to investigate a criminal mastermind forging World Cup sticker albums. Paris Filmes is set to release in Brazil.

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Brazil’s Boutique Filmes, producer of “3%,” the first Netflix non English-language series to break out abroad, is linking to Portugal’s SPi (“Glória”) to produce “Seven Women,” a reimagining of Brazilian Letícia Wierzchowski’s novel which yielded one of the biggest hits in Brazilian TV history: Globo’s “A Casa das Sete Mulheres,” sold to over 80 countries.

Globo’s telenovela had 51 episodes; Boutique and SPi’s rolls off this huge IP but weighs in as an eight-part historical drama.

Boutique Filmes produced Netflix’s first Brazilian series, “3%,” which ran to four seasons, and notably 2020’s “Omniscient” and Netflix’s first Brazilian true crime “Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime.”

Launched in 2017 by Sptv to create international co-productions and titles for streaming services, SPi produced Portugal’s first Netflix original series “Glória,” plus “Codex 632,” with Globoplay and Rtp, and “Vanda,” with La Panda and Legendary.

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Italy’s The Open Reel has taken on international sales for Juliana Rojas’ Berlinale Encounters title Cidade; Campo.

Cidade; Campo tells two stories of migration between city and countryside. In the first part, after a dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana moves to São Paulo but struggles to thrive in the city. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia moves to his farm with her wife Mara. In both stories, nature forces the two women to face frustrations and cope with old memories and ghosts.

A Brazilian, German and French co-production, Cidade; Campo...

Madrid — Gustavo and Tiago Mello’s São Paulo-based Boutique Filmes, producers of early Netflix Original overseas breakout “3%,” is teaming with high-end drama powerhouse The Mediapro Studio to produce “To Kill a Queen.”

International sales rights on the series will be handled by The Mediapro Studio Distribution.

From an original idea by Martin Halac, at Mediapro U.S.,”To Kill a Queen” was created by Valentina Castelo Branco and Aurélio Aragão. It is produced by Boutique partner-producer Gustavo Mello and Ran Tellem, The Mediapro Studio head of international content development.

The series sees Boutique mine what has proved a fruitful production line of politically resonant, futurist dystopian thrillers, such as “3%,” now with Season 4 in preparation, and another Netflix Original, “Omniscient,” which bows on Jan. 29.

“To Kill a Queen” is set in near-future moralistic Brazil in 2025.

Diana, a former legendary beauty pageant star, needs to leave her life as a free-wheeling spirit...