Brazil

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After the huge critical and box-office acclaim of the allegoric, iconoclast political satire “Macunaíma” (1969), director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade raised funds in Brazil and Italy (through RAI-TV) to make “Os Inconfidentes”, a politically and artistically ambitious (though low budget) film that tries to reassess historically the most important political event in colonial Brazil – the ill-fated plotting of a coup d’état by a group of Brazilian military officers, poets and intellectuals aiming to overthrow the Portuguese Crown and establish a Brazilian Independent Republic in 1789, inspired by the success of the U.S. independence.Read More »

João and Hugo end their 10-year relationship but stay best friends. As they start dating again, uncontrollable emotions arise, contrasting the planned perfection of their breakup.Read More »

The film follows the parallel lives of two brothers of Danish ancestry in the pampas of the Brazilian-Argentine-Uruguayan rural area. The rough life these gauchos lead means they must share all aspects of their lives. Suddenly, enter A Intrusa (The Intruder). How is this new element in their lives to be shared? (by ElianaG@IMDb)

Based on the short story “La intrusa” by Jorge Luis Borges.Read More »

In a field of transgenic corn, an artist penetrates herself with a cob, ignoring how close she is of dying. Her sister follows her steps and carries her ashes, going on a trip through the Amazon that will turn into a spiritual search.Read More »

The long awaited documentary about Sepultura’s incredible journey from Brazil to the world.Read More »

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Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat operator Antonio. Not long after their union, she becomes intensely jealous of Antonio’s fondness for their winsome goddaughter, Joana, and insinuates herself into a relationship brewing between Joana and a mystical gypsy gold salesman. Soon, tempers are flaring, mystical secrets are being revealed and death is hovering over the central characters.Read More »

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Fausto and Gilda have been married for years and love each other deeply. But Gilda dies, leaving Fausto alone with their 8-year-old daughter and her governess. Shaken, he retreats to his country house, only visited by his female doctor. He starts being plagued every night by wet dreams, visions, and hallucinations of women and his wife, who insistently asks him to join her.Read More »

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The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.Read More »

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Brazil, 1971. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.Read More »