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Viúva Rica Solteira Não Fica / Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch (2006)

In the late 19th century, the life of an aristocratic Lady, divided between love Read More »
The Wind Will Carry Us / Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord (1999)

This idiosyncratic drama from Iran begins as a jeep winds through the hills of Kurdistan Read More »
Carmen (1984) Francesco Rosi, Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo

In 1820s Spain the soldier Don José falls in love with the fiery and charismatic factory worker Carmen. Read More »
Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (1989) Paulo Rocha

In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does Read More »
Rasputin / Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko

Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »
Runaway, Runaway (1972) Bickford Webber, Gilda Texter

A runaway girl hitchhikes west to the Southern California coast, encountering a series of strangers along the way Read More »
Brainstorm (2000) Laís Bodanzky, Rodrigo Santoro

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager Read More »
The Boost (1988) Harold Becker, James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos

Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. Read More »
The Tragedy of Bushido / Bushidô muzan (1960) Eitarô Morikawa, Miki Mori, Mutsuko Sakura, Hizuru Takachiho

Iori, a 16-year-old boy, is forced to commit “seppuku” (ritual suicide) to follow his late sovereign Read More »
Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989) Tunç Basaran, Ozan Bilen, Nur Sürer, Füsun Demirel

Baris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Read More »
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 »
A Run for Money / Kaç Para Kaç (1999) Reha Erdem, Taner Birsel, Bennu Yildirimlar, Zuhal Gencer

The monotonous life of Selim,a shirt store owner changes when he finds a suitcase full of American dollars in a taxi. Read More »
Coup de torchon (1981) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks Read More »
Boiling Point (1993) James B. Harris, Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich

A pair of sociopath killers take on the police and the mob in order to make one last big score. Read More »