Released Date:
2001-10-29
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
163 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (1138 Reviews)
Director:
Luiz Fernando CarvalhoGenres:
DramaLuiz Fernando Carvalho
Raduan Nassar (novel)
Brazilian baroque. The young son that ran from his dominant family, descends into decadence and then returns to the nest. With melodramatic themes of tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts and an overheated and intense visual style to match.
Released Date:
2003-05-30
Languages:
Portuguese, Tupi, Hebrew, Latin
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
(335 Reviews)
Director:
Alain FresnotGenres:
DramaSabina Anzuategui
Alain Fresnot
Ana Maria Miranda (novel)
Anna Muylaert
The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.
Released Date:
2006-11-02
Languages:
Portuguese, Yiddish, Hebrew
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (4579 Reviews)
Director:
Cao HamburgerGenres:
DramaAdriana Falcèo (script collaborator)
Claudio Galperin
Cao Hamburger
Brèulio Mantovani
Anna Muylaert
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to Sèo Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mètel. Daniel promises to return before the first game of the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for Mètel in front of his apartment. When the next door neighbor Shlomo arrives, he tells the boy that Mètel had just had a heart attack and died. Alone and without knowing where his parents are, the boy is lodged by Shlomo and the Jewish community. Through the young neighbor Hanna, Mauro makes new friends, cheers for the Brazilian team and sees the movement of the police and militaries on the streets while waiting for his parents.
Released Date:
2011-09-23
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (145 Reviews)
Director:
Marcelo LaffitteJosè Carvalho (screenplay)
Marcelo Laffitte
Elvis & Madona is a romantic comedy that deals with an unusual subject in a delicate and realistic way: a love story between young lesbian Elvis and a transvestite Madona. The story takes place in Copacabana, neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The screenplay comprehends a full array of human types and, by following the journey of both protagonists, illustrates the conflicts generated by the evolution of behavior and custom. It is a modern and agile picture, and its soundtrack will follow the latest musical trends. Nevertheless, it is essentially a love story, proving that love can exist in any situation.
Released Date:
2011-04-29
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (113 Reviews)
Director:
Paulo MachlineGenres:
DramaLourenèo Mutarelli (original author)
Andre Pinho
A talent agent summons a young singer to Sao Paulo in order to present her to a renowned maestro. While they wait for the day of the audition, they stay in a hotel room where, over cigarettes and coffee, the agent reads her future by using cigarette packs as if they were tarot cards. It is during this wait that his true intentions are revealed.
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