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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Vidas Secas aka Barren Lives [+Extras] (1963)
Quote:A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to...
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Paula Gaitán – Luz nos Trópicos AKA Light in the Tropics (2020)
A film like a monument: Luz nos trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of both Americas and flowing as a...
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Carlos Diegues – Chuvas de Verão AKA Summer Showers (1978)
70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age. Quote:“‘The life isn’t like the river that flows tirelessly nor like...
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João Paulo Miranda Maria – Memory House (2020)
Cristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers...
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Bruno Barreto – Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos AKA Dona Flor and Her Two...
Quote:In a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to...
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Paulo César Saraceni – Porto das Caixas (1963)
Irma can only think about getting rid of her cowardly dirty husband. She seeks out lovers not to commit adultery or for pleasure, but to find an accomplice to kill her husband. 1.50GB | 1h 15m |...
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Walter Salles – Central do Brasil AKA Central Station (1998)
Synopsis:Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them ‘trash’. Josue is a 9-year-old boy who...
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Maya Da-Rin – A Febre (2019)
Quote:A middle-aged native widower in Brazil, Justino lives his life according to set patterns. He puts in long shifts as a security guard in the Port of Manaus, then returns to the Amazon where he...
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Glauber Rocha – Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol AKA Black God, White Devil...
Quote:After killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint. Reehan Miah wrote:Glauber Rocha’s...
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Walter Hugo Khouri – Amor Estranho Amor AKA Love Strange Love (1982)
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political...
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Eliane Caffé – Era o Hotel Cambridge AKA The Cambridge Squatter (2016)
Synopsis:Shows the unusual situation of homeless Brazilians movement and refugees that squat together an abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. The daily tension caused by the treat of eviction...
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Júlio Bressane – O Anjo Nasceu (1969)
Julio Bressane wrote:“When I made O Anjo Nasceu I thought I had made my most difficult film, a completely irresponsible film, that space, that vacuum, that nothing. It was a devastating experience for...
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José Hipolito Trigueirinho Neto – Bahia de Todos os Santos aka Bahia of All...
The saga of adolescents living on their own as adults was treated as early as 1961 by Triguerinho Neto in this film set in Salvador, Bahia, under the Vargas dictatorship. Tonio has left home, unable...
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João Batista de Andrade – O Homem que Virou Suco AKA The Wrung-Out Man (1980)
Quote:São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss. 3.14GB | 1h 27m | 1480×1080 | mkv...
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Vincent Carelli & Tatiana Almeida & Ernesto de Carvalho – Martírio (2016)
Synopsis:The great reclaiming march for the sacred Guarani Kaiowá territories through Vincent Carelli’s filming, who recorded the birthplace of the movement in the 1980s. Twenty years later, touched...
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Suzana Amaral – Uma Vida em Segredo (2001)
Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life. 1.80GB |...
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Carlos Nader – A Paixão de JL AKA JL’s Passion (2015)
In January 1990, at the age of 33, the artist José Leonilson starts registering an intimate journal in a tape recorder. His views on events that shook both Brazil, such as the resignation of former...
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Júlio Bressane – Capitu e o Capítulo AKA Capitu and the Chapter (2021)
“If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?” Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music, with their friends, each couple...
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Paulo César Saraceni – O Viajante (1998)
As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the town’s patron saint. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards. 1.78GB | 1h 53m | 1152×720 | mkv...
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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Tenda dos Milagres AKA Tent of Miracles (1977)
The life of Pedro Arcanjo, self-taught mestizo intellectual who in the first decades of the XXth century challenged racist ideas of the School of Medicine of Bahia and highlighted the importance of...
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