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Tag Archives: Brazil
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009) Anna Muylaert, Glória Pires, Paulo Miklos, Alessandra Colassanti
In São Paulo, the lonely forty and something year-old guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment Read More »
Brainstorm (2000) Laís Bodanzky, Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis
A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager Read More »
The Woman of Everyone (1969) Rogério Sganzerla, Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents Read More »
The Dead Girl’s Feast (2008) Matheus Nachtergaele, Daniel de Oliveira, Juliano Cazarré, Jackson Antunes
For every one of the last 20 years, The Dead Girl’s Feast has been celebrated in a small riverside community in the upper part of the Negro River. Read More »
A Dog’s Will (2000) Guel Arraes, Matheus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Rogério Cardoso
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 »
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 »