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No Man’s Land / Terra de ninguém (2012) Salomé Lamas, Paulo de Figueiredo
A mercenary sits in a chair on a sober setting in an abandoned palace in Lisbon Read More »
Hour of the Star / A Hora da Estrela (1985) Suzana Amaral, Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. Read More »
Abraham’s Valley / Vale Abraão (1993) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Read More »
Runnin’ After Love (1978) Carlos Hugo Christensen
Beto, a young gigolo playboy, convinces his friends to break into a house Read More »
John, the Knife and the River / João en het mes (1972) George Sluizer, Joffre Soares, Ana Maria Miranda, Joao-Augusto Azevedo
An older man consumed by jealousy over his much younger wife decides Read More »
That World and Mine / Êsse Mundo é Meu (1964) Sérgio Ricardo, Antonio Pitanga, Léa Bulcão
The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker. Read More »
House of Sand / Casa de Areia (2005) Andrucha Waddington, Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra
Áurea arrives at a town in the dunes of State of Maranhão, Brazil, in 1910, having Read More »
Case of the Naves Brothers / O Caso dos Irmãos Naves (1967) Luiz Sérgio Person, Anselmo Duarte, Raul Cortez, Juca de Oliveira
The innocent brothers are wrongly accused of a crime by a corrupt Read More »
Of Gods and the Undead / Os Deuses e Os Mortos (1970) Ruy Guerra, Norma Bengell, Othon Bastos, Ítala Nandi
In the 1930’s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history Read More »