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Anna Muylaert – Mãe Só Há Uma AKA Don’t Call Me Son (2016)
Quote: Most films—especially taut, lower-budgeted indies—choose one theme or dramatic premise and run with it. Others cross-wire two potent and ostensibly unrelated ideas and bask in the sparks they...
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Júlio Bressane – Garoto (2015)
A girl, a boy, a murder, some great landscapes, the sound of wind. Like a young couple on the lam film shot by Straub/Huillet. It achieves a beauty few films can. Quote: Boy meets girl at the end of...
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Eryk Rocha – Cinema Novo (2016)
Cinema Novo is a movie-essay that investigates poetically the most important movement of Latin America cinema, through the thoughts of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon...
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Jorge Mautner – O Demiurgo AKA The Demiurge (1972)
A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. “It’s super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada”, Mautner says. He also...
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Mario Peixoto – Limite AKA Limit (1931)
Quote: An astonishing creation, Limite is the only feature by the Brazilian director and author Mário Peixoto, made when he was just twenty-two years old. Inspired by a haunting André Kertész...
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Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval – Mata Atlantica (2016)
Quote: A young girl disappears in a forest in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil. http://nitroflare.com/view/69C8182E4BA3FD7/Mata.Atlantica.2016.720p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC2.0-pirata00.mkv Language(s):Portuguese...
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Various – Mundo Invisível (2012)
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world. http://nitroflare.com/view/383C866DA892C54/Mundo_Invisivel_2012_HDTV.XviD.avi...
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Roberto Gervitz – Jogo Subterraneo aka Underground Game (2005)
from IMDB: In São Paulo, the weird and romantic piano player Martin (Felipe Camargo) believes in serendipity and invents a game to find the woman of his dreams. He previously selects a route in the...
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Juruna Mallon & Lucas Parente – Satan Satie (2016)
Erik Satie’s work is at the heart of modern music. However, who was Satie? An elusive genius or a visionary misanthrope? The film tries to sketch an identikit of the musician through his notes and the...
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Júlio Bressane – Barão Olavo, o Horrível (1970)
Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director was forced to leave Brazil. Horror and humor to deal...
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Júlio Bressane – Miramar (1997)
qUOTE: Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director’s life. Miramar is a teenager raised by his parents to be an artist. But a tragedy occurs in his life: both his parents commit...
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Júlio Bressane – Cara a Cara (1967)
The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician’s young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations....
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Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas – As Boas Maneiras AKA Good Manners (2017)
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their...
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Vera Egito – Amores Urbanos AKA Restless Love (2016)
Living on the same floor of a building in the city of São Paulo, Micaela (Renata Gaspar), Diego (Thiago Pethit) e Júlia (Maria Laura Nogueira) share their experiences, failures and achievements....
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Vera Egito – Elo AKA Bond [+Extra] (2009)
Synopsis: January 19th, 1982. Lilian experiences her first disillusion. She is fifteen years old and understands what pain is. January, 19th, 1982. Elis Regina dies at the age of 36. And the whole...
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Jean Garret – A Mulher Que Inventou o Amor AKA The Woman Who Invented the...
Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, after being raped by a butcher and loses her virginity, a friend advises her to become a prostitute – and she does it....
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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Vidas Secas aka Barren Lives [+Extras] (1963)
Filmed with a strong sense of compassion for the impoverished and an underlying hatred for the injustice which forces them into the lives they must live, this is one of the first works from Brazil’s...
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J. Soares – A Filha do Advogado aka The Daughter of the Lawyer (1926)
“In Recife, Dr. Paulo is an important lawyer that has a daughter, Heloísa, with his paramour and living in the country. A few days before traveling to Europe, Dr. Paulo asks to a close friend to bring...
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Glauber Rocha – Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol AKA Black God White Devi (1964)
Black God, White Devil (Portuguese: Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol, literally, “God and the Devil in the Land of Sun”) is a 1964 Brazilian film directed and written by Glauber Rocha. The film stars...
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Juliana Antunes – Baronesa (2017)
Synopsis Andreia wants to move out. Leid is waiting for her husband, who is in prison. They are neighbors in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte, trying to escape the daily dangers of a drug...
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