5 Movies Starring Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Baile Perfumado

Baile Perfumado

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-08-01

Languages:

Portuguese

Countries:

Brazil

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (286 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Paulo Caldas

Lèrio Ferreira

Hilton Lacerda

Fullplot:

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampièo, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.

Midnight

Midnight

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-10-29

Languages:

Portuguese

Countries:

France, Brazil

Runtime:

75 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (551 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Joèo Emanuel Carneiro

Josè Carvalho

Walter Salles

Daniela Thomas

Fullplot:

At midnight of December 31st of 1999, the destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the fireworks fall over Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach and the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone. An obscure but brilliant view that integrates the series "2000 Seem By", created by the French cultural broadcast television Art and the producer Haut et Court, in order to collect different views, from 10 distinct countries, concerning the end of the millennium.

Me You Them

Me You Them

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-08-18

Languages:

Portuguese

Countries:

Brazil

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(1482 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Darlene, earthy and unmarried, returns to the cane fields of Bahia with her young son. There, over time, she balances the pride, desire, jealousy, and tolerance of three men. Osias, an older man, proud of a house he's built, proposes marriage; she accepts. He retires to his hammock, she works hard, and in a few years births a second son, much darker than Osias. Then, he takes in his cousin Zezinho, almost as old as he, a good cook, so Osias is happy. Darlene smiles at Zezinho. Another son arrives, light-skinned like Zezinho. Next, Darlene meets Ciro, young and handsome, and invites him to dinner. Osias insists Ciro stay. When another son arrives, what will the proud Osias do?

Behind the Sun

Behind the Sun

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-05-01

Languages:

Portuguese

Countries:

Brazil, France, Switzerland

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (5485 Reviews)

Director:

Walter Salles

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Karim Aènouz (screenplay)

Ismail Kadare (novel)

Sèrgio Machado (screenplay)

Joèo Moreira Salles (additional dialogue)

Walter Salles (screenplay)

Daniela Thomas (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

The Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the 20 years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny traveling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.

Carandiru

Carandiru

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-04-11

Languages:

Portuguese

Countries:

Brazil, Argentina, Italy

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (12618 Reviews)

Director:

Hector Babenco

Genres:

DramaCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Hector Babenco

Fernando Bonassi

Victor Navas

Drèuzio Varella (book)

Fullplot:

Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru, in Sèo Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience and mainly stories the tragic stories of hideous crimes which landed scum there and passionate dramas adding otherwise decent people. Just when he believes to leave the prisoners happy with a soccer tournament, a silly clothing line argument kick-starts a politically opportune revolt repression.

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