A Sao Paolo forensic pathologist who fights boredom by dreaming up causes of death for those who have yet to pass away is called on to examine a most atypical corpse in this mystery from co-directors/co-screenwriters Rossana Foglia and Rubens Rewald. Read More »
Tag Archives: Brazil
The Lion Has Seven Heads / Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças (1970) Glauber Rocha, Rada Rassimov, Giulio Brogi, Gabriele Tinti, Drama
A Latin-American insurgent and a black leader join forces to free an African nation. Read More »
Mortal Possession The Reincarnation of Sex (1982)
A farmer kills the servant who have sex with his daughter. The soul of the servant haunt the farm along Read More »
O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra / The Sintra Road Case (2007) Jorge Paixão da Costa, Ivo Canelas, António Pedro Cerdeira, Bruna Di Tullio, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily “Diário de Notícias”. Read More »
Violencia na Carne (1981) Alfredo Sternheim, Hércules Barbosa, Luiz Carlos Braga, Claudio D’Oliani, Crime, Erotic
Three criminals escape from prison and break in a seaside house to wait for the getaway boat. They subdue four aspirant actresses and three men and rape and torture them. One of the escapees is an idealistic political prisoner that falls in love with Letícia. When the violent Jorge kills a woman camped on the beach, the police investigate the area.
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Orfeu (1999) Carlos Diegues, Toni Garrido
In a dangerous but human Rio de Janiro’s slum, rises the love affair between Orfeu, a famous composer Read More »
O Gosto do Pecado (1980) Cláudio Cunha, Jardel Mello, Simone Carvalho, Maria Lúcia Dahl, Drama
Achando que seu casamento caiu na rotina e querendo retomar sua liberdade, Júlio Garcia separa-se de Regina. Ele entrega-se aos bacanais promovidos por seu amigo, o advogado Enéas, e à sedução de jovens bonitas e ingênuas, como sua secretária Vânia que, fascinada pelo patrão, trai o noivo Celso.
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A Noite do Espantalho / The Night of the Scarecrow (1974) Sérgio Ricardo, Geraldo Azevedo, Fátima Batista, Ana Lúcia Castro, Drama
A psychedelic Brazilian musical with much of the esthetics of Cinema Novo and Tropicalismo; feels a bit like a Brazilian, more modest (and linear) version of “El Topo”. The music is what really shines here; one of the stars (the narrator, featured in the posters above) is now famous musician Alceu Valença.
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Conception / A Concepção (2005) José Eduardo Belmonte, Juliano Cazarré, Milhem Cortaz, Murilo Grossi, Drama
A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won’t last long.
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Brisas do Amor (1982) Alfredo Sternheim, Luiz Carlos Braga, Carlos Capeletti, Célia Coutinho, Drama, Erotic
Two actresses and politician traveling and staying in the same hotel, but each has a distinct purpose.
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