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Actors: Jose Maria Alves, Rubia Rafaelle da Silva, Chico Diaz, Yves Hofer, Phelipe Haagensen
Synopsis: An orphaned, seventeen year-old deep-sea diver struggling to make ends meet in an impoverished Brazilian fishing village attempts to win the heart of a tempestuous, television-addicted flirt in director Kirill Mikhanovsky's award-winning romantic drama. As a child, Jusce (Jose Maria Alves) lost Read More
Actors: Paulo José, Cléo Pires
Synopsis: Directed by Monique Gardenberg and based on the novel by Chico Buarque, Benjamim is the story of aging model Benjamim Zambraiais. Thirty years after the peak of his career, he meets a young woman named Ariela. He is attracted to her because she reminds him of the love of his life, Castana. Despite Read More
Actors: Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Leona Cavalli, Dira Paes, Chico Diaz
Synopsis: The destinies of the downtrodden citizens of a Brazilian shantytown converge in director Claudio Assis' stark tale of life on the fringe of society. Though Recife is a major Brazilian city with over 1.5 million inhabitants, the lives of the well-to-do exist as little more than an unreachable Read More
Actors: Nelson Xavier, Maria Ceica, Chico Diaz, Karla Leal, Zeze Motta
Synopsis: Cape Verde author Germano Almeida wrote the novel (Mr. Napumoceno's Last Will and Testament) that provides the source for this Portuguese-Brazilian-Cape Verdean-French-Belgium co-production. After a wealthy, unmarried businessman dies and the will is read, his nephew learns that he receives Read More
Synopsis: In this Brazilian crime drama, a veteran gangster tells his young protégé about his life and times as a hit man while awaiting the arrival of a contact in a crummy bar. His story unfurls via flashback and much of it centers on the old killer's professional relationship and friendship with his Read More
Synopsis: Every country seems to have its own gallery of criminal legends, those outlaws, highwaymen, gangsters and defiant rogues who capture the public's imaginations and whose exploits become legends. In Brazil, there are the infamous cangacieros of the 1930s. These notorious bandits and Read More
Actors: Ilya Sao Paulo, Sonjia Saurin, Maria Ribeiro, Barbara Brandt, Chico Diaz
Synopsis: This Brazilian fantasy ostensibly tells the story of a child who works miracles, but it also subtly attacks the morality of Brazilian society. The story begins on a river as a man bids goodbye to his children. His wife has told him never to come back and so he paddles out into the current. His son Read More
Synopsis: The female residents of a boarding house in this political allegory battle to achieve some freedom from the harsh dictates of the aged manager. Archival footage from television and newsreels from the period of the 1964 military coup in Brazil liven the proceedings, and make explicit the parallels Read More
Actors: Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana, Tonia Carrero, Dina Sfat, Chico Diaz
Synopsis: Made for Spanish television, Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (Fabula de la Bella Palomera) stars Claudia Ohana in the title role. Though she is a wife and mother, she is ardently pursued by powerful businessman Ney Latorraca, who uses Ohana's beloved pigeons to transmit messages of love to Read More
Actors: Lucelia Santos, Norma Bengell, Claudio Marzo, Jose Wilker, Paulo Betti
Synopsis: All three of the main female characters in this film were performed by Lucella Santos. The three women in question all live around a plaza in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, and none of them is aware of the others. Though their adult responses to deeply flawed childhoods are very different, each of them Read More
Actors: Guilherme Fontes, Norma Bengell, Franklin Caicedo, Julia Lemmertz, Andrea Beltrao
Synopsis: The Brazilian Color of Destiny stars Guilherme Fontes as a tormented Rio de Janeiro teen. Fontes' family had fled Chile's repressive Pinochet regime, but not before his older brother was tortured and killed by the Chilean police. The boy's cousin Julia Lemmetz arrives in Rio, having herself Read More
Actors: Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Ajay Naidu, Peter Horton, Conchata Ferrell
Synopsis: This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring of a missionary who died before the he was born, and a Native American who is later killed by white prospectors. Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning) comes to hear about the Read More
Actors: Caetano Veloso, Regina Case, Antonio Cicero, Paula Lavigne, Alza Soares
Synopsis: In an avant-garde onslaught that involves literary readings from authors as diverse as Thomas Mann and Brazilian writer Guimaraes Rosa, director Caetano Veloso creates an engaging but supremely challenging look at the nature of creativity and free expression. Long commentaries also include Read More
Actors: Severo D'Acelino, Othon Bastos, Cosme Dos Santos, Carlos Kroeber, Antonio Pitanga
Synopsis: Weighing in heavily on the side of atrocities against the black slaves of 18th-century Brazil, this uneven drama is centered on the legend of Galanga, King of the Congo. Galanga is first captured and after the long segments of atrocities have subsided, his owner promises him full freedom if he can Read More
Actors: Stewart Granger, George Lazenby, Maud Adams, William Berger, Eduardo Conde
Synopsis: Stewart Granger plays a Joseph Mengele type in the grim Hell Hunters. Hiding out in jungles of South America, Granger plans to poison the population of Los Angeles as revenge for the toppling of the Third Reich. Nazi hunters Maud Adams and George Lazenby race against time to foil the old Nazi's Read More
Actors: Sonia Braga, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonio Cantafora, Paulo Goulart, Nelson Xavier
Synopsis: Gabriela was based on Jorge Armado's novel Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon, which also served as the source of a typically steamy Brazilian TV soap opera. Set in 1925 (when the novel was first published), the film stars Marcello Mastrioanni as Nacib, a bartender in the Bahian village of Parati. When Read More
Actors: Lucelia Santos, Chico Diaz, Miguel Falabella, Louise Cardoso
Synopsis: Two young friends grow up in the same region and share the same music and dances, and the same religious and cultural customs, yet their paths slowly diverge 180 degrees because one is the son of a politician and the other the son of a laborer. As the two grow apart, each has to address problems Read More
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