As you presumably heard, last week the International Olympic Committee made the right decision for once, and awarded the duties of hosting the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Brazilian megapolis Rio de Janeiro–rather cities in recent host nations Spain, Japan and the U.S. This marks the Games’s first visit to South America, and since it’s unfamiliar territory we’ve assembled some suggested viewing. Get to know Rio with these 10 Movies Set in Rio de Janeiro.

Blame it on Rio (1984)

Just about the creepiest-sounding movie we’ve heard of, Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna go on vacation (in Rio) with their daughters, and fall for one another’s kid. In other words, they fall in love with younger, female versions of each other.

City of God (2002)

The opening scene, above, should tell you all you need to know about this amazing film’s vision of the ghettos of Rio in the 70s and 80s

Carreiras (2005)

An interesting contemporary counterpart to City of God’s retro flavela drug wars, here, a career journalist from Rio goes through a coke-fueled breakdown.

Notorious (1946)

Admittedly, Hitchcock, Cary Grant and Ingri Bergman’s Rio was a studio backlot and rear-screen projections, but it was also a lush frontier of glamorous expats, casinos and booze. Sigh.

Black Orpheus (1959)

Marcel Camus’s beautiful retelling of Greek mythology set against Rio’s spectacular Carnival.

Wild Orchid (1989)

Rio is where up-tight American lawyers go to get wild and loose (with an American millionaire playboy played by Mickey Rourke).

Road to Rio (1947)

As you might gather, this Bing Crosby-Bob Hope caper that leads the two vaudeville performers to Rio (and romance, and a hypnotist), presents a pretty fantastical vision of the city.

That Man from Rio (1964)

An early French New Wave blockbuster, with Belmondo chasing his kidnapped girlfriend’s captors to Rio.

Moonraker (1979)

The globetrotting British super-spy follows villain Hugo Drax to Brazil.