Released Date:
2003-01-31
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (1658 Reviews)
Director:
Carlos DieguesJoèo Emanuel Carneiro
Josè Carvalho (storyline consultant)
Carlos Diegues (screenplay)
Renata Almeida Magalhèes
Joèo Ubaldo Ribeiro (screenplay)
Joèo Ubaldo Ribeiro (story)
God decides to take a vacation - but, first, He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. For that, He goes to Brazil's northeast, where He believes there's a very good man for the job - but, during His mission, He becomes friend of a very smart young man, Taoca.
Released Date:
2003-09-12
Languages:
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (846 Reviews)
Director:
Vicente AmorimGenres:
DramaDavid Franèa Mendes (screenplay)
Romèo, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.
Released Date:
2005-12-02
Languages:
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Countries:
Brazil, UK
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (3071 Reviews)
Director:
Sèrgio MachadoGenres:
DramaKarim Aènouz
Sèrgio Machado
Adriana Rattes (contributing writer)
Gil Vicente Tavares (contributing writer)
Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.
Released Date:
2007-10-12
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (74302 Reviews)
Director:
Josè PadilhaAndrè Batista (book)
John Kaylin (adaptation)
Brèulio Mantovani
Josè Padilha
Rodrigo Pimentel (book)
Rodrigo Pimentel
Luiz Eduardo Soares (book)
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged. Captain Nascimento is trying to find a man to replace him because his wife is pregnant and he intends to quit the command and become a trainer of the new recruits. Meanwhile, the two idealistic friends Neto and Matias join the Military Police force expecting to become honest policemen and fight the criminals. However, they see only corruption, lack of competence and stupid bureaucracy in the Military Police, and after a serious incident in the Morro da Babilènia, they decide to join the BOPE. The lives of Capitain Nascimento, Neto and Matias are entwined along the next months, first in the tough training period and then in action against drug dealers. Nascimento believes that Neto could be his substitute, but his impulsive attitudes jeopardizes his choice. Later, the intelligent Matias seems to be the correct choice, but he needs to prove that he has heart.
Released Date:
2007-03-30
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (793 Reviews)
Director:
Monique GardenbergMonique Gardenberg
Mèrcio Meirelles (play)
During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), 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.
Released Date:
2007-07-20
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1271 Reviews)
Director:
Jorge FurtadoGenres:
ComedyA small community of descendants of Italian immigrants in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul resorts to making a video to try to solve the problems of basic sanitation that plague their village.
Released Date:
2011-03-25
Languages:
Portuguese, Spanish
Countries:
Brazil, USA
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1915 Reviews)
Director:
Toniko MeloMariana Caltabiano (book)
Thiago Dottori (screenplay)
Brèulio Mantovani (screenplay)
Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots. One day, he responds the call of a drug dealer and uses his boss' plane to help the man to transport his cargo. He is hired by the drug lord to work transporting drugs in his airplanes. When he is arrested by the Federal Police, he does not rat his gang and the leader of the cartel gives a large amount of money as a bonus and asks him to leave the gang since he is known by the police. Marcelo uses the money to promote a party in the Carnival of Recife pretending to be the son of the owner of the Gol (a Brazilian air flight company). He lures the high-society, including the television presenter Amaury Jr. Marcelo is arrested again and is sent to prison. During a rebellion, he uses his leadership to present the claims of the prisoners and help to control the situation.
Released Date:
2010-10-08
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (60549 Reviews)
Director:
Josè PadilhaBrèulio Mantovani (screenplay)
Brèulio Mantovani (story)
Josè Padilha (screenplay)
Josè Padilha (story)
Rodrigo Pimentel (story)
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain Andrè Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor. However, due to the increasing popularity of Nascimento, the Governor invites him to team-up with the intelligence area of the Secretary of Security. Along the years, Fraga, who is married with Nascimento's former wife, is elected State Representative and Nascimento's son Rafael has issues with his biological father. Meanwhile Nascimento and the BOPE expel the drug dealers from several slums but another enemy arises: the militia led by Major Rocha and supported by the Governor, the Secretary of Security and politicians interested in votes. Nascimento is manipulated to help this group, vanquishing the criminals in the slums and poor communities; then the corrupt group of police officers is free to exploit the poor population.
Released Date:
2015-10-09
Languages:
Portuguese, English
Countries:
UK, Brazil
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (9740 Reviews)
Felipe Braga (additional material)
Richard Curtis (screenplay)
Andy Mulligan (novel)
When two trash-picking boys from Rio's slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet's return, the boys, Rafael and Gardo, realize that what they've found must be important.
Released Date:
2011-09-02
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (2998 Reviews)
Director:
Clèudio TorresZero (Wagner Moura) is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena (Alinne Moraes) the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel in time, more precisely, to the past. After the chance to change his story, Zero returns to this totally changed.
Released Date:
2013-03-15
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (705 Reviews)
Director:
Luciano MouraA man who has put his career ahead of everything else in life learns the value of family when his son goes missing.
Released Date:
2015-02-27
Languages:
Portuguese, German
Countries:
Brazil, Germany
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (1264 Reviews)
Director:
Karim AènouzGenres:
DramaShortly after failing to rescue a drowning man, Donato meets Konrad, a friend of the victim. They soon begin a relationship which seems doomed from the start, while Donato's past catches up with him.
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