Marcelo Gomes – Estou Me Guardando Para Quando O Carnaval Chegar AKA Waiting...
A small town in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation’s capital of jeans. It’s also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.Icarus Films wrote:The Brazilian town...
View ArticleEduardo Coutinho – Peões AKA Metalworkers (2004)
SynopsisInterviews with workers who took part in the 1979/1980 strikes in the metallurgic region called ABC, in the State of São Paulo, led by the man who was to become President of Brazil, Luiz...
View ArticleGuel Arraes – O Auto da Compadecida AKA A Dog’s Will (2000)
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. But when they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the...
View ArticleRogério Sganzerla – Sem Essa, Aranha (1970)
Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover. Music, screams and moviment Rogerio Sganzerla`s Sem Essa Aranha has just been...
View ArticleRogério Sganzerla – Copacabana Mon Amour [+Extras] (1970)
Synopsis: The saga of some Copacabana dwellers: Sônia Silk, a prostitute also known as Miss Prado Júnior and Peroxide Beast; her gay brother, addicted to smelling his boss’s underwear; and Mr. Grillo,...
View ArticleOzualdo Ribeiro Candeias – A Margem (1967)
At the riverside of Rio Tiete, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a retarded man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation and waiting...
View ArticleRuy Guerra – Os Fuzis AKA The Guns (1964)
In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit. 1.48GB | 1 h 24 min | 984×720 | mkv...
View ArticleJoão Moreira Salles – Santiago (2007)
Quote:In 1992, Brazilian filmmaker João Moreira Salles shot his family’s elderly former butler reminiscing about his past and his interests with a view to a documentary he never completed; 15 years...
View ArticleJuliano Dornelles & Kleber Mendonça Filho – Bacurau (2019)
Set in the near future, the film follows Teresa (Bárbara Colen), who comes home to Bacurau, a village in Brazil’s semi-arid sertão, to attend her grandmother’s funeral. Upon her arrival, Teresa...
View ArticleCao Hamburger – O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias AKA The Year My...
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil. Extras (with subtitles)* Trailer* Interview with Director and Cast* Making-Off...
View ArticleSergio Olhovich – Muñeca reina AKA Queen Doll (1972)
Quote:A man grows obssessed with his erstwhile childhood sweetheart and it leads to a haunting encounter with horror. 1.50GB | 1 h 35 min | 768×576 | mkv...
View ArticleJoaquim Pedro de Andrade – A Linguagem da Persuasão AKA The Language of...
Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias. 182MB | 11 min 37 s | 768×576 | mkv...
View ArticleNeville de Almeida – Jardim de Guerra (1970)
Quote:Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer...
View ArticleFernando Campos & Paulo Gil Soares – Um Homem e Sua Jaula AKA A Man and His...
Based on the novel ‘Matéria de Memória’ of Carlos Heitor Cony, it tells the story of a widowed man who maintains ambiguous relations with his mother-in-law, who lives in the same house. Then he...
View ArticleJoaquim Pedro de Andrade – O Aleijadinho AKA The Little Cripple (1978)
A brief piece on one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time, Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the Aleijadinho. An important representant of the Baroque period in Brazil, Aleijadinho was famous for his...
View ArticleJoaquim Pedro de Andrade – Garrincha – Alegria do Povo AKA Garrincha: Joy of...
The legendary Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade made his feature debut with this mesmerizing 1962 documentary about an even greater Brazilian legend: Mane Garrincha, the phenomenal striker...
View ArticlePetra Costa – Democracia em Vertigem AKA The Edge of Democracy (2019) (HD)
Synopsis:A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis, the personal and political fuse in The Edge of Democracy to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. Combining...
View ArticleAlexandre Moratto – Socrates (2018)
Quote:After his mother’s sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo’s coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief. 1.76GB | 1 h 11 min | 960×576 |...
View ArticleNelson Pereira dos Santos – Raízes do Brasil: Uma Cinebiografia de Sérgio...
Cinebiography of celebrated historian Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, who wrote the seminal “Raízes do Brasil” in 1935, with interviews with his large family (including his widow and his seven children,...
View ArticleKarim Aïnouz – A Vida Invisível AKA Invisible Life (2019)
Two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life, each mistakenly believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away. 5.73GB | 2 h 20 min | 1280×720 | mkv...
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