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Actors: Nelson Xavier, Nelson Dantas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Gero Camilo, José Dumont
Actors: Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Alan Arkin
Synopsis: Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ten-year absence to direct this fact-based political thriller that was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Pedro Cardoso stars as Rio de Janeiro journalist Fernando Gabeira, who decides with his friend Cesar (Selton Mello) to take Read More
Actors: Mariana de Moraes, Claudio Marzo, Katia D'Angelo, Zaira Zambelli, Roberto Bonfim
Synopsis: This semi-autobiographical comedy-drama is the second of a trilogy by director David Neves who takes a look at life on the wild (or at least casual) side in Rio de Janeiro. Bruno (Claudio Marzo) hangs out with a group of free-wheeling dilettantes with two guiding passions in life: doing nothing Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Jose Lewgoy
Synopsis: This attempt to remake the clever 1977 French farce Un Moment d'Egarement stars 50-film-a-year man Michael Caine as an executive named Matthew Hollis, who, together with friend Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), travels to Rio de Janeiro on business. Victor sets out on the town in search of a lambada Read More
Actors: Jose Wilker, Betty Faria, Jardel Filho, Anselmo Vasconcelos
Synopsis: This political thriller is set against the background of actual turmoil in Brazil in the 1970s, so viewers familiar with that time and place in history will get the most out of O Bom Burgues. Lucas (José Wilker) is a banker with clandestine leftist sympathies who is embezzling money from the bank Read More
Actors: Hugo Carvana, Anselmo Vasconcelos, Nelson Dantas, Louise Cardoso
Synopsis: This boisterous Brazilian comedy is set in Dona Esperanzas lively bar and revolves around the tempestuous love between a bitchy soap opera diva and her husband, a writer for her show and an author of pulp romances. The trouble begins because the actress has become too involved with her role and Read More
Actors: Nelson Dantas, Tamara Taxman, Louise Cardoso
Synopsis: Focusing on the culture and beliefs of the people in the state of Minas Geraes in Brazil, this highly innovative drama by director Carlos Alberto Prates-Correia continuously blurs the line between fantasy and reality. At center stage is a man and his life, viewed from the perspective of his Read More
Synopsis: Revolutionaries in 16th-century Brazil come in for close study in this 1972 Brazilian/Italian film. A group of intellectuals, with the exception of a Corporal Tiradentes, these revolutionaries plotted the overthrow of the Portuguese colonial government. In a compelling scene, an informer slips Read More
Synopsis: This Brazilian romantic drama is told in two episodes, each based on a separate story by Rubem Fonseca. In the first episode, Lucia, a young girl, is wild about contemporary music and poetry books. The music she loves best is from The Beatles, which is why she calls herself McCartney. Her need for Read More
Synopsis: The down-at-the-heels aristocrats in this Brazilian film can barely keep their moral compasses on an even keel at the best of times. When one of the women of the family throws herself wholeheartedly into a life of passion and eroticism, they haven't a clue what to do. As they begin to find ways to Read More
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