Cinema Nacional
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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.
Marighella
Wagner Moura · 2023
Com cenas extras, a minissérie especial derivada do filme homônimo mostra Marighella, que, decidido a lutar contra o regime militar, deixa para trás seu filho para pegar em armas, tornando-se um notório inimigo da ditadura.
Ó Paí, Ó
Monique Gardenberg · 2007
Acompanhe a vida dos moradores de um animado cortiço do Pelourinho, o coração de Salvador, no ultimo dia de Carnaval. Entre a falta de dinheiro e o desejo de se divertir, tipos curiosos sobrevivem à custa de muita criatividade, ironia, sensualidade e música.
Sonhos Roubados
Sandra Werneck · 2009
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.
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.
Democracia em Vertigem
Petra Costa · 2019
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
O Auto da Compadecida
João 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.
Cidade de Deus
Fernando Meirelles · 2002
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Bacurau
Juliano Dornelles · 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.
Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
Marcos Bernstein · 2013
Zezé (João Guilherme de Ávila) é um garoto de oito anos que, apesar de levado, tem um bom coração. Ele leva uma vida bem modesta, devido ao fato de que seu pai está desempregado há bastante tempo, e tem o costume de ter longas conversas com um pé de laranja lima que fica no quintal de sua casa. Até que, um dia, conhece Portuga (José de Abreu), um senhor que passa a ajudá-lo e logo se torna seu melhor amigo.
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.
Madame Satã
Karim Aïnouz · 2002
A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
Central do Brasil
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.
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.
A Boca do Mundo - Exu no Candomblé
Eliane Coster · 2009
An ethnographic and experimental approach to the multiple cultural manifestations of Exu, Orixa/God of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé
Exu - Além do Bem e do Mal
Werner Salles Bagetti · 2012
Samba de Santo: Resistência Afro-Baiana
Betão Aguiar · 2020
Three carnival blocks, born in candomblé terreiros in Bahia, are the center of this documentary: Ilê Aiyê, Cortejo Afro and Bankoma. Through work, centenary groups, the film explores black culture, its dances, its fabrics and its ancestry.
Caminhos dos Orixás
Betse de Paula · 2023
Caminhos dos Orixás é uma série de documentários com 16 episódios de 26 minutos cada, com os principais orixás do Candomblé, seus arquétipos, suas representações. É possível apagar a memória de um povo? Caminho dos Orixás é uma série que foi à procura dessa resposta. A travessia transatlântica que os africanos fizeram durante 350 anos, trouxe mais que mão de obra escravizada. Nos navios negreiros também vieram músicas, danças, vestimentas, comidas, encantamentos, mandingas, gingas, cuidado com as plantas, e uma vontade imensa de vencer os desafios de um corpo aprisionado e uma mente livre. No candomblé buscaram esperança e preservaram sua fé nos Orixás.
Como Nossos Pais
Just Like Our Parents | Laís Bodanzky · 2017
Que Horas Ela Volta?
The Second Mother | Anna Muylaert · 2015
Vitória
Breno Silveira & Andrucha Waddington · 2025
Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho
The Way He Looks | Daniel Ribeiro · 2014
