Brazil

It's only a state of mind.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Jonathan Pryce

Sam Lowry

Robert De Niro

Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle

Katherine Helmond

Mrs. Ida Lowry

Ian Holm

Mr. M. Kurtzmann

Bob Hoskins

Spoor

Michael Palin

Jack Lint

Ian Richardson

Mr. Warrenn

Terry Gilliam

Smoking Man (uncredited)

Peter Vaughan

Mr. Helpmann

Kim Greist

Jill Layton

Jim Broadbent

Dr. Jaffe

Derrick O'Connor

Dowser

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Priest

John Pierce Jones

Basement Guard

Barbara Hicks

Mrs. Alma Terrain

Charles McKeown

Harvey Lime

Kathryn Pogson

Shirley

Bryan Pringle

Spiro