The Devil Queen (A Rainha Diaba)

Name: The Devil Queen (A Rainha Diaba)
Duration: 1 h 40 min

1hr 40m

3.8/5 (1.6K)

1hr 40m
3.8/5 (1.6K)

Crime queen and drug dealer, Diaba finds out that the police are after his protégé and decides to "make up" a new bandit to turn in in his place. More Details »

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Release Date:

Jun 17, 2026

Runtime:

1hr 40m

Synopsis

Crime queen and drug dealer, Diaba finds out that the police are after his protégé and decides to "make up" a new bandit to turn in in his place.

Moviegoers are saying

A Rainha Diaba emerges as a wildly transgressive Brazilian crime odyssey that splits audiences between those who embrace its chaotic camp aesthetic and those overwhelmed by its relentless aggression. Reviewers consistently praise Milton Gonçalves' iconic performance and the film's bold queer representation during Brazil's military dictatorship, while noting its deliberately excessive, kitsch-soaked visual style that creates a unique fusion of blaxploitation and Brazilian malandragem.

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Transgressive-Camp

Queer-Crime-Epic

Kitsch-Masterpiece

Brazilian-Blaxploitation

Sadistic-Spectacle

Underground-Royalty

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3.8

RATINGS 75 FANS

3.8

May 27, 2020

brazilian pulp fiction botando tarantino pra mamar

186 Likes

Najma

Jun 25, 2022

O cinema queer brasileiro também tem suas preciosidades 🌈 'A Rainha Diaba' é super camp e transgressor para a época que foi lançado (na ditadura militar). A lenda da atuação Milton Gonçalves simplesmente icônico interpretando uma gay bandida e quebrando sutilmente a…

143 Likes

mari

Feb 23, 2022

finalmente história de gays trambiqueiras. ninguém aguenta mais só história de gay sofrendo, queremos mais gays assim, gay empinando moto, gay dando tiro etc

103 Likes

𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒊
Que me perdoem Lázaro Ramos e Karim Ainouz pelo seu retrato de Madame Satã, mas Milton Gonçalves e Fontoura aposentaram a personagem alí, não tem para ninguém. E tem Odete Lara mais diva do que nunca como cantora de boate e de cabelo verde.

97 Likes

Adriana Scarpin

Jun 22, 2025

absurdamente precioso, deliciosamente caótico. rainha diaba nas escolas!

78 Likes

Thiago Guimarães

Nov 22, 2022

"Qual é a rainha que não pode confiar no seu povo?". Shakespeare do excesso no submundo do crime brasileiro. Nelson Xavier é o nosso Iago. Milton Golçalves é a Rainha que domina tudo e todos com mãos de ferro, com violência e com um sadismo fervente – sempre um passo na…

76 Likes

Diego Quaglia
Aug 29, 2018

The organization of momentum here is done by underlining violence until it becomes explicit, scenes keep lingering with sadistic joy, tension building within such an unsettling ambience, everyone laughing madly all the time, relations of power amidst decadence, the camera…

58 Likes

Diogo Serafim

Apr 5, 2024

queria viver num mundo com essa estética babilônica, a direção de arte aqui deu o sangue

52 Likes

maria eduarda 🕯

Jun 17, 2023

Somehow meaner than even the meanest poliziottesco film? Truly…. be gay, do crime

47 Likes

Liz