Synopsis:
The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.

Kleber Mendonca Filho - (2012) Neighboring Sounds.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 10mn
Size: 	2.35 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x432 
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 118 Kbps
BPP: 	0.200
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 Kbps
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 64.0 Kbps (Commentary by director Kleber Mendonça Filho)

https://nitro.download/view/009631EB30F561F/Kleber_Mendonca_Filho_-_(2012)_Neighboring_Sounds.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Marcio for this copy

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Marcelo is a father on the run from a mysterious past. Arriving in Recife during Carnival, Marcelo is swept into a dizzying world of colour, noise, and unforgettable characters. As the city’s sights and sounds intensify, Marcelo’s true place within Recife’s intricate web of secrets begins to emerge.

The.Secret.Agent.2025.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-BYNDR.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 41 min
Size: 	11.5 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x800 
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	10 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.272
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 5.1ch E-AC-3 @ 640 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/8507D134A609EDE/The.Secret.Agent.2025.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-BYNDR.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English, French

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Synopsis:
Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Pictures.of.Ghosts.2023.576p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-Slope.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
Size: 	3.03 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 043 kb/s
BPP: 	0.286
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/B9036270A10B0BA/Pictures.of.Ghosts.2023.576p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-Slope.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English, French, Portuguese, Portuguese [SDH], Spanish

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Set in the near future, the film follows Teresa (Bárbara Colen), who comes home to Bacurau, a village in Brazil’s semi-arid sertão, to attend her grandmother’s funeral. Upon her arrival, Teresa immediately observes signs that Bacurau is in dire straits. Basic amenities are in short supply, mobile-phone coverage is fading, clean water supply is dammed and the truck that brings potable water arrives riddled with bullet holes. It soon becomes apparent that the corrupt government has forsaken the village completely: not only has Bacurau been literally erased from the map, but its citizens are under attack. As the responsible close in, the villagers must prepare an organized resistance to avoid greater damage.

4.05GB | 2 h 11 min | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/C195B238494468C/Bacurau_%282019%29.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/897DD3DE25FA313/Bacurau.2019.720p.WEB-DL.DD2.0.H264-RK.en.srt
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/9E7AE1239E75062/Bacurau_%282019%29.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/A897AE2CEEB1EF9/Bacurau_%282019%29.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/AB2598392B7F776/Bacurau_%282019%29.part3.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/BAFD142289C5761/Bacurau_%282019%29.part4.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/C711B3F53C392A7/Bacurau_%282019%29.part5.rar

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis wrote:
Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa Viagem Avenue, Recife. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot. Clara has pledged to only leave her place upon her death, and will engage in a cold war of sorts with the company. This tension both disturbs Clara and gives her that edge on her daily routine. It also gets her thinking about her loved ones, her past and her future.

Geoff Andrew @ timeout wrote:
A retired music critic fights to keep her beachfront apartment in this satisfyingly adult drama.

The premise of this second feature from Kleber Mendonça Filho, the Brazilian writer-director of Neighboring Sounds, sounds like a recipe for sentimentality and hollow triumphalism. When Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, refuses to sell the beloved beach apartment she’s lived in for most of her life, she finds herself under attack not only from a powerful property company but from former friends; even members of her own family question her judgment. Happily, Mendonça Filho avoids the pitfalls of feelgood cinema, creating a drama that’s credible, complex and very satisfying.

Key to his successful sidestepping of cliché is the casting of Sonia Braga, whose evident strength, intelligence and vitality are essential to the character of the embattled but stubborn Clara. Despite having been stricken by breast cancer back in the 1980s (the setting for a brief prologue that reveals her attachment to the same apartment) and lost her husband, she has raised a family, made a name for herself as a writer and retained her enthusiasm for music in particular and life in general. Braga’s charismatic performance ensures that we never pity Clara but merely hope that she’ll manage to survive the increasingly aggressive tactics of the company determined to buy her out—or, perhaps, prove to her just how unsafe it can be for a person of her age to live alone in a run-down building almost anybody can walk into.

As the story unfolds, it also expands; besides being a study of a woman under duress, the film is a portrait of a society where many traditional values, like its buildings, are at risk of being annihilated simply for the sake of modernity and money. The virtue of Aquarius—the title, incidentally, alludes to the name of the block Clara lives on—is that it never feels the need to sermonize. Its ethical, political and psychological insights are carefully contained within a consistently compelling narrative that feels fluid, relevant and true.

http://nitroflare.com/view/1A937370FB8D7B8/Aquarius_%282016%29.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

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