A woman married to a former politician during the military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
Marcos Bernstein, Joa£o Emanuel Carneiro, Walter Salles
Cast
Fernanda Montenegro, Vinacius de Oliveira, Maralia Pera
Plot
The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Jose Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel, Bra¡ulio Mantovani
Cast
Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, Andre Ramiro
Plot
After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.
Movie | Action, Crime | Brazil, Argentina | Portuguese
Director
Jose Padilha
Writer
Jose Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel, Bra¡ulio Mantovani
Cast
Wagner Moura, Andre Ramiro, Caio Junqueira
Plot
In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.
Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since ...
TV | Animation, Action | Japan | Portuguese, German
Cast
Dallas Reid, Gakuto Kajiwara, Jill Harris
Plot
Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus.
Matheus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Virginia Cavendish
Plot
The adventures of friends João Grilo, a poor man a liar, and Chicó, the most cowardly of men. Both struggle for daily bread in the Northeast of Brazil and crossing for several episodes fooling all of the small village of Taperoá, ...
Three castaways - a man and two women - adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to their desolate predicament.
Manoel de Oliveira, Joa£o Rodrigues de Freitas, Nascimento Fernandes
Cast
Nascimento Fernandes, Vital dos Santos, Antanio Palma
Plot
The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos ...
After flunking in medical school, the young and bohemian Vasco need to trick his aunts, the main financers of his studies, preventing them to know that he is not a doctor.
Antanio Lopes Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro, Vasco Santana
Cast
Maria das Neves, Vasco Santana, Antanio Silva
Plot
This classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors.
Movie | Action, Adventure | Brazil, France | Portuguese, English
Director
Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendona§a Filho
Writer
Kleber Mendona§a Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Cast
Ba¡rbara Colen, Thoma¡s Aquino, Silvero Pereira
Plot
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?
Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
Movie | Documentary | Brazil, UK | Portuguese, English
Director
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, Joa£o Jardim
Cast
Vik Muniz
Plot
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
Movie | Documentary, Crime | Brazil | Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Jose Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Writer
Bra¡ulio Mantovani, Jose Padilha
Cast
Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares
Plot
On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's back...
Movie | Drama | Brazil, Germany | Portuguese, Greek
Director
Karim Aa¯nouz
Writer
Murilo Hauser, Ines Bortagaray, Karim Aa¯nouz
Cast
Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Fla¡via Gusma£o
Plot
In 1950s Rio de Janeiro, two sisters live restricted lives with their conservative parents. After they are separated and forced to live apart, they take control of their destinies, while never giving up hope of finding one another.
Antanio Lopes Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro, Vasco Santana
Cast
Vasco Santana, Francisco Ribeiro, Leonor Maia
Plot
Francisco, salesman in a shoe store, is totally in love with Tatão, which sells perfume in the same street. But he is an amateur theater actor, as she hates theater and is a fan of cinema. Will this unlikely love endure?
The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.
Movie | Comedy, Crime | Brazil, Italy | Portuguese
Director
Marcos Jorge
Writer
Fabrizio Donvito, Marcos Jorge, Lusa Silvestre
Cast
Joa£o Miguel, Fabiula Nascimento, Babu Santana
Plot
In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato finds an alternative way, a life of his own: he cooks in order to survive and find a place in society. He arrives in town without a ...
Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Plot
Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by th...
A Brazilian photocopier operator falls in love with a girl who lives in an opposite house and spends his evenings looking at her through his binoculars.
The unlikely love between Luisinha, a humble girl who lives on a small pension in Lisbon, and Daniel, a wealthy aristocrat who decides to fight for the girl who loves against the prejudices of his family.
A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the dro...
A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette i...
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Movie | Biography, Comedy | Brazil | Portuguese, English
Director
Daniel Rezende
Writer
Luiz Bolognesi, Fabio Meira
Cast
Vladimir Brichta, Leandra Leal, Taina¡ Maller
Plot
When Augusto Mendes gets the role of Bingo, he goes through dilemmas such as the fact that he is an anonymous celebrity and that he can't reconcile his work and his family.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | Portuguese, English
Director
Norman Z. McLeod
Writer
Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose, Barney Dean
Cast
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Plot
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
Movie | Documentary, History | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Eduardo Coutinho
Writer
Eduardo Coutinho
Cast
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar
Plot
A filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese, Korean
Director
Alexandre Moratto
Writer
Thayna¡ Mantesso, Alexandre Moratto
Cast
Christian Malheiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Lucas Oranmian
Plot
To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca, but becomes trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking.
Movie | Action, Crime | Brazil, France | Portuguese
Director
Glauber Rocha
Writer
Glauber Rocha
Cast
Mauracio do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos
Plot
In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him pr...
The story of a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he also used to rape his female victims.
After the events of the previous film, Coffin Joe continues to seek a maiden to give him a son. With the help of servant Bruno, he kidnaps six girls from a village. Which one of them will pass his trials of fear?
A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he falls in love with an innocent girl.
Movie | Action, Drama | Brazil, USA | Portuguese, English
Director
Bruno Barreto
Writer
Fernando Gabeira, Leopoldo Serran
Cast
Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres
Plot
Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and followers on a journey to the Big City. More mira...
A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along...
Movie | Drama, Romance | Portugal, Germany | Portuguese, English
Director
Miguel Gomes
Writer
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Cast
Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Hortencalio Aquina
Plot
A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
Dona Flor's handsome husband had been a womanizing gambler but a great lover until he drops dead in 1943. She then remarries an older pharmacist who is reliable but lacks the passion of her first husband. He returns as a ghost.
Alinor Azevedo, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Roberto Farias
Cast
Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Daria
Plot
Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
A post-apocalyptic thriller set in near-future Brazil, where a select few are allowed to join a privileged society after undergoing an intense and competitive process.
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals--as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Portugal | Portuguese, English
Director
Paulo Rocha
Writer
Nuno Bragana§a, Paulo Rocha
Cast
Isabel Ruth, Rui Gomes, Paulo Renato
Plot
19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop he gets to know Ilda, a young housem...
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
A tercentennial young wizard casts a spell on a trio of kids, attracting them to the castle where he lives with his wizarding aunt and uncle - all surrounded by music, magic and fantasy.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Brazil | Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Aluizio Abranches
Writer
Aluizio Abranches
Cast
Jaºlia Lemmertz, Fa¡bio Assuna§a£o, Jean Pierre Noher
Plot
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Joa£o Alamy Filho, Jean-Claude Bernardet, Luiz Sergio Person
Cast
Anselmo Duarte, Raul Cortez, Juca de Oliveira
Plot
The innocent brothers are wrongly accused of a crime by a corrupt and violent police officers and are forced to face the injustices of the brazilian penal system.
A 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.
Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings...
'Capitão', a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group.
Elena Soarez, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Andrucha Waddington
Cast
Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra
Plot
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Geninha and Fortunato are couple who loves music. He's a good songwriter, she sings well. Despite this, their parents hate each other and do not seem willing to allow their marriage, nor the creation of a local radio for them.
Maiquel has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw--all in 24 hours.
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
Joa£o Cesar Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado
Plot
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Movie | Biography, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese, English
Director
Walter Carvalho, Sandra Werneck
Writer
Lucinha Araaºjo, Fernando Bonassi, Victor Navas
Cast
Daniel de Oliveira, Marieta Severo, Reginaldo Faria
Plot
The life and times of Cazuza, Brazilian singer/poet/enfant terrible, from his start with rock group "Barão Vermelho", to his death from Aids, in 1990, showing his career, love affairs, and involvement with drugs.
Paulo Vinaccius Santos Ferraz, Davi Freitas, Hugo Santos Ferraz
Plot
Viniccius begins his adventure through the world of Minecraft and, together with his friend Davi, he has a goal: to build an automatic house with the resources they find around the world.
Fernando Alves Pinto, Alessandra Negrini, Caco Ciocler
Plot
In São Paulo, the scheme of the corrupt DA Júlia and her mate, the lawyer Henrique with the gangster Maicom is discovered and sent to the Internal Affairs. Maicom is responsible for kidnappings, murderers and heists and his only c...
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Brazil | Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Cla¡udio Torres
Writer
Cla¡udio Torres
Cast
Wagner Moura, Alinne Moraes, Maria Luasa Mendona§a
Plot
Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Ha...
A womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. He falls in love and believes she is, in fact, all women in one. Because of that, he faces an important decision: go on with his old life, or embra...
Movie | Drama, History | France, Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Maria de Medeiros
Writer
Maria de Medeiros, aˆve Deboise
Cast
Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida
Plot
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
