Marcos Jorge – Estômago AKA Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Quote:A penniless immigrant arrives in the big city with no work or money and discovers he is a talented cook, but still ends up in prison as he realises everybody seems to be out to exploit him....
View ArticleJosé Mojica Marins – Exorcismo Negro AKA Black Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974)
The director José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in the small farm where they live and write the story of his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his...
View ArticleMarcelo Laffitte – Elvis & Madona (2010)
Quote:One of the most unique romantic comedies to emerge in years, Elvis & Madona is a colorful crowd-pleaser set in Rio de Janeiro’s lively neighborhood of Copacabana. Elvis is a talented...
View ArticleLuiz Bolognesi – A Última Floresta AKA The Last Forest (2021)
In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their...
View ArticleWalter Hugo Khouri – Noite Vazia AKA Eros [+Extras] (1964)
Synopsis:Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes,...
View ArticleGlauber Rocha & Affonso Beatto – 1968 (1968)
Unfinished documentary about the “March of the 100,000”, driven by the student movement against brazilian dictatorship in 1968. Glauber directed with “Antonio das Mortes'” cinematographer, Affonso...
View ArticleAffonso Uchoa – Sete anos em Maio AKA Seven Years in May (2019)
Following the internationally acclaimed film ARÁBIA, Brazilian filmmaker A onso Uchôa presents his new take on social injustice. In the darkness of the night and lit only by a bonfire, a young man...
View ArticleGustavo Vinagre – Vil, Má AKA Divinely Evil (2020)
Now in her seventies, Wilma Azevedo—Brazil’s ‘queen of sadomasochistic literature’—narrates her turbulent, sexually explicit life story, once as her pseudonym and once as herself. As her memory fails...
View ArticleKarim Aïnouz – O Abismo Prateado AKA The Silver Cliff (2011)
Violeta, 40 years old, dentist, married, a teenage son, is ready start another ordinary day, between her office and her new apartment in Copacabana. A phone message will take her to a journey in the...
View ArticleJo Serfaty – Um Filme de Verão AKA Sun Inside (2019)
Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio are in their last month of school at a public institution in Rio de Janeiro. Immersed in the tangled wires covering the slum’s sky and the sudden blackouts, these four...
View ArticleRudi Lagemann – Anjos do Sol AKA Angels of the Sun (2006)
In 2002, 12-year-old Maria, living in dire poverty with her family, is sold by her fisherman father to prostitute recruiter Seu Tadeu, who takes her to a low-class brothel in the Amazon region. While...
View ArticleRogério Sganzerla – A Mulher de Todos AKA The Woman of Everyone (1969)
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power. 1.52GB | 1h 22m |...
View ArticleSandra Kogut – Três Verões (2019)
Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way as her employers are caught in major...
View ArticleAndré Novais Oliveira – Temporada AKA Long Way Home (2018)
In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband...
View ArticleDaniela Thomas – Vazante (2017)
Quote:Forced to marry a slave trader, young Beatriz faces physical and emotional unrest beyond her years in this lyrical and nuanced historical mood piece. Upon returning from a trading expedition,...
View ArticleBenjamin de Burca & Bárbara Wagner – Rise (2019)
A group of young Black people, mainly immigrants from the Caribbean, have occupied the public space of the Toronto underground to perform their agitprop concept of edutainment – poets, rappers,...
View ArticleRenata Pinheiro – Carro Rei AKA King Car (2021)
Born inside a car, Uno has had a very special relationship with them from an early age. From the renovation of an old family vehicle, Uno and his uncle, the auto mechanic Zé Macaco, will set forward a...
View ArticleRuy Guerra – Kuarup (1989)
Another rare movie of a great brazilian author, Ruy Guerra. Adapted from the famous book of Antonio Callado. The history of Nando, a priest who goes preach in the Xingu River region, an almost...
View ArticleKarim Aïnouz – O Céu de Suely AKA Love for Sale (2006)
SynopsisAfter two years of living in São Paulo, Hermila returns to her village in northeastern Brazil with her newborn son, anxiously awaiting the arrival of her husband. Time passes slowly and the...
View ArticleCristiane Oliveira – A Primeira Morte de Joana (2021)
Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. As she confronts the values of her community in Southern Brazil, Joana realizes that all the women in her...
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