The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. Read More »
Tag Archives: Brazil
Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980) José Fonseca e Costa, Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello
Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Read More »
Dot.com (2007) Luís Galvão Teles, João Tempera, María Adánez, Marco Delgado
A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation Read More »
My Hindu Friend (2015) Hector Babenco, Willem Dafoe, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Reynaldo Gianecchini
His father has died, he doesn’t speak for his brother for about 10 years and he has a serious cancer. Read More »
The Clown (2011) Selton Mello, Paulo José, Larissa Manoela
This is the story of father and son who work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar (Paulo Jose) Read More »
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006) Cao Hamburger, Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry Read More »
Turbulence (2000) Ruy Guerra, Jorge Perugorría, Bianca Byington, Suzana Ribeiro
After a restless night HE is awoken by his doorbell insistently ringing. Through the peephole he sees a STRANGER. Read More »
Brave New Land (2000) Lúcia Murat, Diogo Infante, Floriano Peixoto, Luciana Rigueira
Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. Read More »
The Deceased (1965) Leon Hirszman, Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Gracindo, Ivan Cândido
In the suburb of Sampaio, Zulmira visits a fortune teller (Madame Crisálida) who advises her to be careful with a ‘blonde woman’. Read More »
Mango Yellow (2002) Cláudio Assis, Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Leona Cavalli
Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters Read More »
River of Gold (1998) Paulo Rocha, Isabel Ruth, Lima Duarte, Joana Bárcia
Carolina (Isabel Ruth), an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river Read More »
Two Sons of Francisco (2005) Breno Silveira, Ângelo Antônio, Dira Paes, Márcio Kieling
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children Read More »
Unicorn (2017) Eduardo Nunes, Bárbara Luz, Patricia Pillar, Zécarlos Machado
A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. Read More »
Alice’s House (2007) Chico Teixeira, Carla Ribas, Berta Zemel, Vinicius Zinn
Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children Read More »
A Shot in the Dark (2005) Leonel Vieira, Joaquim de Almeida, Vanessa Mesquita, Filipe Duarte
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon Read More »