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Actors: Ambre Laplaine, Gaspard Laplaine, Iris Laplaine, Anna Maria Laplaine, N'Delela wa Mbombo, Zeka Laplaine
Synopsis: The concerned brother of a missing man sets out on a cross-continental search for his vanished sibling in director/screenwriter Zeka Laplaine's labyrinthine faux-documentary. Max has disappeared, and the only clues to his whereabouts are collection of videotapes featuring footage that the missing Read More
Actors: Toni Garrido, Patricia Franca, Murilo Benicio, Zeze Motta, Milton Goncalves
Synopsis: Legendary Brazilian director Carlos Diegues recasts the tragic myth of Orpheus in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. Orfeu de Conceicao is the most famous samba player in Brazil, and one of the most respected members of the neighborhood of Carioca Hill, a labyrinth of dirty streets 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: Based on a popular Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado, this lively drama slyly comments upon Brazilian society while telling a tale of reconciliation and subtle revenge had at the hands of the fast-living titular character, a woman who 26 years before was banished from her remote home village of Read More
Actors: Marilia Pera, Paulo José, Zeze Motta, Jose Wilker
Synopsis: In this drama, the lives of the people who dub the voices in movies and television shows from foreign countries are explored. In this case, the foreign shows are from the U.S., and the language they are being dubbed into is Brazilian Portuguese. Marialva (Marilia Pera)is a Brazilian woman who dubs Read More
Actors: Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Florinda Bolkan, Desmond Llewelyn
Synopsis: In 1981, Ronald Biggs was kidnapped by agents from Scotland Yard from his Brazilian hideout for his participation in the 1964 British train robbery. This feature was written by Biggs and director Lech Majewski as a fictionalized account of the authorities trying to bring the colorful crook to Read More
Actors: Tonia Carrero, Louise Cardoso, Marieta Severo, Zeze Motta, Xuxa Lopes
Synopsis: Three generations of women gather for one last time in the family mansion slated for the wrecking ball in this distaff drama. The trio reminisces about the last 40 years in a revealing display of emotions, sharing their hopes and dreams with each other. Filming took place in a beautiful mansion in Read More
Actors: Milton Goncalves, Almir Guineto, Grande Otelo, Zeze Motta, Adele Fatima
Synopsis: This Brazilian film by director Paulo Cesar Saraceni stars Milton Gonclaves as Natal, the famous banker who contributed financial support for years to the School of Samba. Most of the plot focuses on the connection between organized crime and the samba more than on the dance itself. ~ Dan Read More
Actors: Milton Goncalves, Grande Otelo, Zeze Motta
Actors: Zeze Motta, Antonio Fagundes, Marilia Pera, Marco Nanini
Synopsis: This highly stylized Brazilian drama contains a nonlinear storyline that effectively erases the thin line between reality and illusion as it follows the night lives of people living on the teeming streets of Sao Paulo. The story begins with a drag queen and the man he just murdered. The scene Read More
Actors: Antonio Pompeo, Zeze Motta, Tony Tornado, Vera Fischer, Antonio Pitanga
Synopsis: Quilombo de Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the Read More
Actors: Charles Balano, Francoise Goussard, Grande Otelo, Raymond Pellegrin, Zeze Motta
Synopsis: This drama is an adaptation of a 1935 novel by Jorge Amado. Baldo is a black man from the wrong side of the tracks whose lifetime occupations keep changing. He works at being a servant, thief, boxer, ne'er-do-well, circus performer, and finally a strike organizer. Throughout this daunting array of Read More
Actors: Zeze Motta, Walmor Chagas, Altair Lima
Synopsis: The uncommonly sexy, clever and ambitious slave Xica Da Silva won her independence and much more in mid-19th-century Brazil by using her feminine wiles and her lovemaking prowess to induce the Portuguese town governor to grant her freedom. In so doing, she became a legend and an inspiration to Read More
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