From Sintonia to Netflix: Nando Between Two Worlds’ cast, plot and release breakdown
If Nando Between Two Worlds is on your radar, you’re here for three things: who’s in it, what it’s about, and when it drops.
The feature-length spinoff picks up five years after Nando’s bloody rise, with the former kingpin now holed up in Serbia and trying to parent from afar. When his daughter Bruninha bolts, he’s pulled back toward São Paulo and toward Scheyla, even as he keeps his operation humming remotely through his right hand, Moicano. The film puts Nando in a corner: keep the family he’s desperate to rebuild, or stay loyal to the underworld that made him.
Built out of Netflix ’s Brazilian hit Sintonia, the movie is designed as Nando’s final chapter — a street-level crime story stretched to its breaking point by fatherhood, distance and old enemies who don’t forget.
- Christian Malheiros — Nando
- Júlia Yamaguchi — Scheyla
- Duda Pimenta — Bruninha (Nando’s daughter)
- Henrique Santana — Moicano (Nando’s partner)
- Bruna Mascarenhas — Rita (guest appearance)
- Jottapê — Doni (guest appearance)
From series to finale
Nando Between Two Worlds follows one of Netflix’s longest-running Brazilian series. Sintonia went five seasons, wrapping in February 2025, and helped define the streamer’s gritty, music-infused crime storytelling from São Paulo’s favelas. The film brings back Rita and Doni for guest turns, nodding to the show’s core trio even as the spotlight stays on Nando’s last stand.
Premieres August 12, 2026 on Netflix.
The movie is directed by Johnny Araújo and written by Guilherme Quintella, Denis Nielsen and Léo Todeschini. It ’s a feature-length sendoff for Nando — and the end of his story in this universe — arriving August 12, 2026 on Netflix.