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Tag Archives: Brazil
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 »
Baron Olavo, the Horrible (1970) Júlio Bressane, Rodolfo Arena, Helena Ignez, Isabella
Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Read More »
The Trial (2018) Maria Ramos, Dilma Rousseff, Jair Bolsonaro, José Eduardo Cardozo
The Trial portrays the trial of Dilma Rousseff, focusing on the defense team Read More »
Hopefuls (2015) Ives Rosenfeld, Ariclenes Barroso, Sergio Malheiros, Julia Bernat
Junior, as he’s known since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. Read More »
The Priest and the Girl (1966) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Helena Ignez, Paulo José, Mário Lago
In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place Read More »
Garrincha: Joy of the People (1963) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Heron Domingues, Garrincha
Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer’s history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of 1958 and 1962 World Cup. Read More »
Cleópatra (2007) Júlio Bressane, Alessandra Negrini, Miguel Falabella, Bruno Garcia
Julio Bressane turns his sensual, color-filled set pieces to “Cleopatra,” Read More »
Bang Bang (1971) Andrea Tonacci, Paulo César Peréio, Abrahão Farc, Jura Otero
The actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character’s fiction. Read More »
Memories They Told Me (2012) Lúcia Murat, Clarisse Abujamra, Otávio Augusto, Eduardo Cravo
A group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away. Read More »
The Hustlers (1962) Ruy Guerra, Per Aabel, Norma Bengell, Hugo Carvana
This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the “cafajestes”). Read More »
Love Me Forever or Never (1986) Arnaldo Jabor, Fernanda Torres, Thales Pan Chacon
Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship. Read More »
Twenty Years Later (1984) Eduardo Coutinho, Tite de Lemos, Ferreira Gullar
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. Read More »
Aquarius (2016) Kleber Mendonça Filho, Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. Read More »