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Actors: Matheus Nachtergaele, Gorete Milagres, Vinicius Miranda, Rosi Campos, Ailton Graca
Synopsis: A father determined to celebrate his son's tenth birthday with a classic Mazzaropi film finds out just how difficult it can be to track down classic comedy in an era where fickle audiences fill multiplexes screening only the latest in big-budget American fare. When Quinzinho (Matheus Nachtergaele) Read More
Actors: Paulo Betti, Leticia Vota, Mario Lozano, Arturo Fleitas, Mirthita Mazo, Graciela Canepa
Synopsis: In a story reminiscent of A Fistful of Dollars (1964), a Brazilian drifter named Augusto with a terminal heart condition appears in a nameless Latin American town armed only with an oboe. The town's inhabitants do little but fight, die, and attend funerals -- that is, until Augusto enthralls the Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Paulo Betti
Synopsis: Marcos Bernstein, the co-writer of Central Station (1998), spins this gorgeously photographed, humanistic portrait of a family patriarch in the waning years of his life. Anthony Quinn plays Giuseppe, the aging head of a large family of Italians living in Curitiba, Brazil. While his Read More
Synopsis: In 1980, impoverished working-class child actor Fernando Ramos da Silva became the darling of Brazilian cinema after starring in the internationally acclaimed Pixote, a wrenching look at the plight of Rio de Janeiro street urchins forced into criminal lives. With such an auspicious debut, a great Read More
Actors: Paulo Betti, Carla Camurati, Jose de Abreu, Deborah Evelyn, Eliezer de Almeida
Synopsis: This Brazilian film, set over a nine month period between December 1970 and September 1971, chronicles the true story the hunt for Carlos Lamarca, the military renegade and leader of a revolutionary group that in 1970 kidnapped a Swiss ambassador to Brazil. Following the kidnapping, the Read More
Actors: Guilherme Fontes, Malu Mader, Marcos Palmeira, Tonico Pereira
Synopsis: Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family Read More
Actors: Vera Fischer, Paulo Betti, Jose Wilker, Carlos Gregorio
Synopsis: Leticia (Vera Fischer) is a beautiful woman who is the obsession of two men. One is her extremely jealous ex-lover, the other is a pilot who routinely makes trips to the gold mines in the jungles of the Amazon. Leticia is embroiled in a scheme to sell a forged painting which is supposedly by a Read More
Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Jose Wilker, Gloria Pires, Isabel Ribeiro
Synopsis: The story in this inventive and critically well-regarded film is told backwards, beginning in the 1980s and detailing the lives of two couples who were deeply affected by the popular song of the 1960s "Besame Mucho". From then until the 1980s, pop music defines the key moments in their lives. The 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: Cynthia de Paula, Carlos Augusto Carvalho, Jesse James, Valeria de Andrade, Antonio Fagundes
Synopsis: The setting of this drama is a beautiful and costly home in Sao Paulo that has recently come on the market. When a real estate agent starts handling the house, he discovers a woman and her daughter have moved in as squatters on the premises. Meanwhile, the night watchman of the estate has his own Read More
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