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Tag Archives: portuguese
Macunaíma (1969) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Grande Otelo

Our story begins with Macunaima’s miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. 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 »
Jubiabá (1986) Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Grande Otelo, Julien Guiomar, Charles Baiano

A white girl and a black boy grow up together in the same house. 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 »
Abolition / Abolição (1988) Zózimo Bulbul, Camila Amado, Benedita da Silva, Abdias do Nascimento

A documentary, mostly in color, but with historical photography and pictures in black and white. 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 »
Memories and Confessions (1993) Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Diogo Dória

A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal. Read More »
Mãe Só Há Uma / Don’t Call Me Son (2016) Anna Muylaert, Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Dani Nefussi

After discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child Read More »
A Talking Picture (2003) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich

A meditation on culture. July, 2001: buddies tide as a cruise boat departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and also the Indian Ocean. Read More »