Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós – Mato Seco em Chamas AKA Dry Ground Burning...
Quote:A lightning rod dispatch from contemporary—and maybe future—Brazil, this astonishing mix of documentary and speculative fiction takes place in the nearly postapocalyptic environs of the Sol...
View ArticleEduardo Coutinho – O Fim e o Princípio AKA The End and the Beginning (2006)
SynopsisA film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of...
View ArticleGabriel Mascaro – Doméstica AKA Housemaids (2012)
Housemaids are an integral part of the household in Brazil, and participate in the day-to-day life of the family. The employment of housemaids is almost obligatory among the middle and upper classes...
View ArticleJosé de Anchieta – Parada 88 – O Limite de Alerta (1977)
SynopsisParada 88 is a city with some european vibe where there’s no lack of forests, huts and a lot of fog. Nobody ever got out or even tried to from this place. 1.37GB | 1h 55m | 600×480 | mkv...
View ArticleIsael Maxakali & Sueli Maxakali – YamiYhex: As Mulheres-Espírito aka Yamiyhex...
Quote:After spending a few months in the Vila Verde Village, the yamiyhex (women-spirit) prepare to leave. The filmmakers Sueli and Isael Maxakali register the preparations and the great feast for...
View ArticleArthur Omar – Triste Trópico (1974)
Traffic on the roads of São Paulo, old family photographs, and the voice-over tale of Arthur Alvaro de Noronha, a doctor coming back from Paris after finishing his Medicine studies in Europe. Arthur...
View ArticleRoberto Pires – Tocaia no Asfalto (1962)
The psychology and life of Brazilian hitmen, common in the Northeast part of the country. In this particular case, the story revolves around a young and idealistic politician from Salvador, whom the...
View ArticleConrado Sanchez – A Menina e o Estuprador AKA The Girl and the Rapist (1982)
IMDB:In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by Pedro, her butler and driver and the maid, Dalva who are a married...
View ArticleAnna Muylaert – Que horas ela volta? AKA The Second Mother (2015)
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray....
View ArticleCarlos Hugo Christensen – A Mulher do Desejo AKA House of Shadows (1975)
Young man inherits small fortune from his old uncle, on condition he lives in the old man’s house for a time. Soon the uncle’s spirit begins to manifest itself through the nephew’s personality,...
View ArticleCarlos Hugo Christensen – Viagem aos Seios de Duília AKA Journey to Duilia’s...
Synopsis: After decades of working as a civil servant, a man retires with no family or children to keep him company. With the sudden passing of an old co-worker, he is forced to reflect on his life...
View ArticleAlfredo Sternheim – Violencia na Carne AKA Violence and Flesh (1981)
Three criminals escape from prison and break in a seaside house to wait for the getaway boat. They subdue four aspirant actresses and three men and rape and torture them. One of the escapees is an...
View ArticleRicardo Pretti & Bruno Safadi – O Fim de uma Era AKA The End of an Age (2014)
A joy for the eyes and ears, this high-point of the Brazilian trilogy Operation Sonia Silk. A dreamy making-of about the two other episodes and also a cinematographic essay (in picture, text, sound...
View ArticleCarlos Reichenbach – Alma Corsária AKA Buccaneer Soul (1993)
This Brazilian film by auteur Carlos Reichenbach offers a lush, at times surreal, collage that pays tribute to the arts and presents his personal experiences and political insights as it examines the...
View ArticleWalter Hugo Khouri – Eu AKA I (1987)
Powerful and insatiable millionaire hides in his own private island for the weekend, in search of answers for his feeling of personal dissatisfaction. But he is not alone on the beautiful beach: he’s...
View ArticleAlê Abreu – Perlimps (2022)
Claé and Bruó, two secret agents working for enemy kingdoms, who are dispatched to the Enchanted Forest. They finally discovered they’re on the same mission: To save the Perlimps from the terrible...
View ArticlePaula Gaitán – Diário de Sintra AKA Days in Sintra (2008)
How are the traveler and the exile different? How shall we think of memories created in exile? This are the axis upon which Days in Sintra rotates. The film is a poetic account of the exile of Glauber...
View ArticlePaula Gaitán – Exilados do Vulcão AKA The Volcano Exiles (2013)
She managed to save from the fire a stack of photographs and a diary with handwritten phrases. These words and faces are the only traces left by the man she once knew and loved. Crossing mountains and...
View ArticleRoberto Pires – Césio 137 – O Pesadelo de Goiânia (1995)
SynopsisThe story behind one of the worst radiological disasters to ever happen in Brazil, in 1987. https://nitro.download/view/65CCEEE6BFA704D/Cesio.137.1990.1080p.WEB-DL.AVC-MKO.mkv...
View ArticleAntonio Bonacin Thome – Belinda dos Orixás na Praia dos Desejos (1979)
The story unfolds from the arrival of young Belinda and her friends, a group of university students looking for leisure, to a camping area at the seaside. In another tent, the family of Adilson, a...
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