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Hilton Lacerda – Tatuagem AKA Tatoo (2013)
Hilton Lacerda’s film debut is a lively take on the conflict between the straight establishment and the gay avant garde in late ’70s Brazil, and won a clutch of awards at the recent Rio festival. The...
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Sérgio Ricardo – Juliana do Amor Perdido AKA Lost Love Juliana (1968)
Quote: A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a violent religious fanatic interferes....
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Júlio Bressane – Dias de Nietzsche em Turim AKA Nietzsche’s Days in Turin (2001)
Plot:A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Friedrich Nietzsche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings. It was there that the philosopher wrote...
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Júlio Bressane – O Anjo Nasceu (1969)
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable...
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Júlio Bressane – Filme de Amor (2003)
Quote: Two Girls and a Guy meets An Affair of Love in this erotic melodrama from the venerable Brazilian auteur Julio Bressane. The aptly-titled A Love Movie focuses on three philandering characters...
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Karim Ainouz – Praia do Futuro AKA Futuro Beach (2014)
Short after facing the failure of an attempt to rescue a drowning man, Donato meets Konrad, friend of the victim. Motivated by the circumstances, Donato decides to begin a new life in Berlin, but...
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Caru Alves de Souza – De Menor AKA Underage (2014)
Helena is a recently graduated attorney that shares her routine between her job as a Public Defender of children and adolescents in the Forum of the city of Santos, Brazil, and the care of the...
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Walter Hugo Khouri – O Palácio dos Anjos aka The Palace of Angels (1970)
Synopsis: In São Paulo, the greedy Bárbara is not happy with her work in a loan and investment company. When her boss Ricardo invites Bárbara for a meeting at his apartment, he harasses her first and...
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Walter Hugo Khouri – Amor Voraz (1984)
Synopsis: Ana is going through psychological problems. She and lifelong friend Cléia decide to revisit the place they spent their childhood together in an attempt to get better results in her...
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Marcel Camus – Orfeu Negro AKA Black Orpheus [+Extras] (1959)
Quote: Screen: Legend Retold; ‘Black Orpheus’ Bows at the Plaza By BOSLEY CROWTHER Published: December 22, 1959 ALL tangled up in the madness of a Rio de Janeiro carnival, full of intoxicating samba...
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Alexandre Stockler – Cama de Gato AKA Cat’s Cradle (2002)
Three young hedonistic sociopaths find themselves in deep, deep trouble in Alexandre Stockler’s ugly 2002 teen drama Cat’s Cradle. Longtime pals and recent high school graduates Gabriel (Cainan...
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Anna Muylaert – Que Horas Ela Volta? AKA The Second Mother (2015)
Quote: Val spends 13 years working as nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She is financially stable but has to live with the guilt of having left her daughter Jéssica, in Pernambuco, in the northeast of...
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Hector Babenco – My Hindu Friend (2015)
Quote: His father has died, he doesn’t speak for his brother for about 10 years and he has a serious cancer. Diego is a talented film director with difficulty to deal with his sickness, which is...
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Glauber Rocha – Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças AKA The Lion Has Seven Heads (1970)
ın a African country, the people decides to take arms for the revolution, but the white, defended by mercenaries and commanded by a American agent, will defend the interests of capitalists and of...
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Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Quote: Kiss Of The Spider Woman takes place in an un-named, fascist country in South America. It is, essentially, a two-actor drama featuring two men, of vastly different demeanors and ideologies, who...
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Gabriel Mascaro – Boi neon AKA Neon Bull (2015)
Iremar works at the “Vaquejadas”, a rodeo in the North East of Brazil where two men on horseback try bring down a bull by grabbing its tail. It’s dusty and back-breaking work, but Iremar is a natural...
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Silvio Tendler – Os Anos JK – Uma Trajetoria Politica AKA The JK Years – A...
PLOT SYNOPSIS Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of economical development, his gigantic...
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Kleber Mendonça Filho – Aquarius (2016)
Synopsis wrote: Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story...
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Gabriel Mascaro – Boi Neon AKA Neon Bull (2015)
Quote: We tend to view sex as a private, forbidden theater that’s detached from the remainder of life, rather than the origin of our life that courses through other acts. Films reflect this sentiment,...
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Flávio Moreira, Leon Hirszman, Rubens Maia & Luiz Rosemberg Filho – América...
Quote: Film in four segments: “Colagem”, “Balanço”, “Bandeira Zero” and “Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia”, having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of...
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