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VITÓRIA
Andrucha Waddington · 2025
Vitória is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amid conflicts with her neighbors, she decides to film the movement of drug traffickers from her window, hoping to assist the police. After months of recording suspicious activities, her initiative attracts the attention of a journalist, who approaches Nina and offers to support her in her mission.
Saneamento Básico, o Filme
Jorge Furtado · 2007
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Quanto Vale ou É por Quilo?
Sérgio Bianchi · 2005
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis''s short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti''s 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Capitães da Areia
Cecília Amado · 2011
About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.
O Auto da Compadecida
Guel Arraes · 2000
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
Homem com H
Esmir Filho · 2025
Dono de uma voz inconfundível e de performances memoráveis, Ney Matogrosso morava com os pais e irmãos na pequena cidade de Bela Vista (MS). Os embates com o pai, que insistia que o menino “virasse homem”, levaram Ney a se afastar da família, antes de enveredar para a vida artística. Anos depois de sair de casa, em São Paulo, estreou como vocalista dos Secos e Molhados, dando início às performances históricas que o definiram como um dos maiores artistas brasileiros da atualidade.
marte um
Gabriel Martins · 2022
A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career.
o cheiro do ralo
Heitor Dhalia · 2006
Lourenço (Selton Mello) é o dono de uma loja que compra objetos usados. Aos poucos ele desenvolve um jogo com seus clientes, trocando a frieza pelo prazer que sente ao explorá-los, já que sempre estão em sérias dificuldades financeiras. Ao mesmo tempo Lourenço passa a ver as pessoas como se estivessem à venda, identificando-as através de uma característica ou um objeto que lhe é oferecido. Incomodado com o permanente e fedorento cheiro do ralo que existe em sua loja, Lourenço vê seu mundo ruir quando é obrigado a se relacionar com uma das pessoas que julgava controlar.
o que é isso, companheiro?
Bruno Barreto · 1997
O jornalista Fernando e seu amigo César abraçam a luta armada contra a ditadura militar no final da década de 60. Os dois se alistam num grupo guerrilheiro de esquerda. Em uma das ações do grupo militante, César é ferido e capturado pelos militares. Fernando então planeja o sequestro do embaixador dos Estados Unidos no Brasil, Charles Burke Elbrick, para negociar a liberdade de César e de outros companheiros presos.
o auto da compadecida
João Falcão, Guel Arraes, Adriana Falcão · 1999
Baseado na peça teatral homônima de Ariano Suassuna, O Auto da Compadecida é uma comédia que mistura regionalismos e religiosidade para contar a história de João Grilo e Chicó.
ainda estou aqui
Walter Salles · 2024
In 1971, military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family — Rubens, Eunice, and their five children — live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.
Central Station
Walter Salles · 1998
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
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TROPA DE ELITE
José Padilha · 2007
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
BRUNA SURFISTINHA
Marcus Baldini · 2011
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.
BICHO DE SETE CABEÇAS
Laís Bodanzky · 2001
Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.
AQUARIUS
Timofey Zhalnin · 2016
This film is a metaphor for who we are, for where we come from? A secret held in the abyss. To read the message - through fear and prejudice, from imitation to communion, from meditation to movement. Dance to the horizon - from points of no return. The irony of our metamorphosis - in order to grow, the seed must die.
Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus
Marcelo Gomes · 2005
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Aquarius
Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2016
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
O Homem do Futuro
Cláudio Torres · 2011
Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.
Meu Nome Não é Johnny
Mauro Lima · 2008
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
Bingo: O Rei das Manhãs
Daniel Rezende · 2017
1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.
O Palhaço
Selton Mello · 2011
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Carandiru
Héctor Babenco · 2003
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Reflexões de um Liquidificador
André Klotzel · 2010
After receiving a patch, a blender suddenly gains consciousness. As it grapples with existential questions, it becomes the sole companion to the grieving wife of a missing man.
lisbela e o prisioneiro
Guel Arraes · 2003
Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife''s affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
meu tio matou um cara
Jorge Furtado · 2004
Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.
estômago
Marcos Jorge · 2007
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge''s nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
o homem que copiava
Jorge Furtado · 2003
André, 19, lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and works as a photocopier operator. He likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a pair of binoculars. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, he tries to get nearer, and goes to her shop to buy something, but finds out that he can''t afford it. So he puts the photocopier to other uses, and begins to envisage fishy schemes to earn some money.
ó paí, ó
Monique Gardenberg · 2007
During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
que horas ela volta?
Anna Muylaert · 2015
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
bacurau
Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2019
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
City of God
Fernando Meirelles · 2002
Buscapé é um jovem morador da Cidade de Deus que cresce em meio à violência. Com medo de se tornar um bandido, enxerga na fotografia uma oportunidade de ter uma vida digna.
