The short is part of the feature film Cinco Vezes Favela, one of the first films of Cinema Novo. Read More »
Tag Archives: portuguese
Brazilian Planet of the Apes / O Trapalhão no Planalto dos Macacos (1976) J.B. Tanko, Renato Aragão, Baiaco, Renato Bastos
This movie is a spoof of “Planet of the Apes” (1968) and follows the storyline Read More »
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry Read More »
Operation Autumn / Operação Outono (2012) Bruno de Almeida, John Ventimiglia, Diogo Dória, Nuno Lopes
Operation Autumn is a political “thriller” about the covert operation of the assassination Read More »
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures / Cinema Aspirinas e Urubus (2005) Marcelo Gomes, João Miguel, Peter Ketnath, Madalena Accioly
A road movie about a German man who went to the Northeast of Brazil in 1942 to sell Aspirin. Read More »
The Dauphin / O Delfim (2002) Fernando Lopes, Rogério Samora, Alexandra Lencastre, Rui Morisson
Portugal, late sixties. Tomás Palma Bravo, the Dauphin, is the heir to a world in decay. Read More »
Four Days in September / O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (1997) Bruno Barreto, Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 Read More »
Mutant Blast (2018) Fernando Alle, Pedro Barão Dias, Maria Leite, João Vilas
Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength Read More »
Mutum (2007) Sandra Kogut, Thiago da Silva Mariz, Wallison Felipe Leal Barroso, Maria Juliana Souza de Oliveira
Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Read More »
The Quartet (1995) O Quatrilho
The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. Read More »