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.
FR #767 | Movie | Drama | Brazil, France | Portuguese, Japanese
Director
Walter Salles
Writer
Marcos Bernstein, Joao Emanuel Carneiro, Walter Salles
Cast
Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius De Oliveira, Marilia 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.
FR #1246 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Brazil, India | Portuguese, Hindi
Director
Jose Padilha
Writer
Jose Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel, Braulio 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.
FR #2028 | Movie | Crime, Action | Brazil, Argentina | Portuguese
Director
Jose Padilha
Writer
Jose Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel, Braulio 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.
FR #2165 | Movie | Drama | Brazil, France | Portuguese, French
Director
Anselmo Duarte
Writer
Anselmo Duarte, Dias Gomes
Cast
Leonardo Villar, Gloria Menezes, Dionisio Azevedo
Plot
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?
FR #2357 | Movie | Documentary, Short | Brazil, Denmark | Portuguese, English
Director
Jorge Furtado
Writer
Jorge Furtado, Cecilia Meireles
Cast
Paulo Jose, Cica Reckziegel, Douglas Trainini
Plot
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 ...
FR #3943 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese, English
Director
Mario Peixoto
Writer
Mario Peixoto
Cast
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor
Plot
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.
FR #4187 | Movie | Family, Drama | Portugal, UK | Portuguese, English
Director
Manoel De Oliveira
Writer
Manoel De Oliveira, Joao Rodrigues De Freitas, Nascimento Fernandes
Cast
Nascimento Fernandes, Vital Dos Santos, Antonio 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 ...
FR #4268 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese, English
Director
Anna Muylaert
Writer
Anna Muylaert
Cast
Regina Case, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas
Plot
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.
FR #4504 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Daniel Ribeiro
Writer
Daniel Ribeiro
Cast
Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim
Plot
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.
FR #4686 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Portugal, France | Portuguese, French
Director
Jose Cottinelli Telmo
Writer
Jose Cottinelli Telmo, Jose Galhardo
Cast
Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, Antonio Silva
Plot
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.
FR #4750 | Movie | Drama | Brazil, France | Portuguese
Director
Kleber Mendonca Filho
Writer
Kleber Mendonca Filho
Cast
Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
Plot
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.
FR #4950 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Francisco Ribeiro
Writer
Antonio Lopes Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro, Vasco Santana
Cast
Maria Das Neves, Vasco Santana, Antonio 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.
FR #5129 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Italy, Brazil | Portuguese, English
Director
Enzo Barboni
Writer
Marco Barboni
Cast
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, April Clough
Plot
A jazz musician and a stunt man are the spitting image of two millionaire brothers. They take the job to replace them in Rio de Janeiro when someone plans to assassinate them.
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...
FR #5516 | Movie | Drama, Short | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Daniel Ribeiro
Writer
Daniel Ribeiro
Cast
Ghilherme Lobo, Tess Amorim, Fabio Audi
Plot
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.
FR #5959 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Arthur Duarte
Writer
Joao Bastos, Felix Bermudes, Ernesto Rodrigues
Cast
Antonio Silva, Milu, Maria Eugenia
Plot
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.
FR #6017 | Movie | Drama | Brazil, Germany | Portuguese, Greek
Director
Karim Ainouz
Writer
Murilo Hauser, Ines Bortagaray, Karim Ainouz
Cast
Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flavia Gusmao
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.
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 ...
FR #6703 | 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.
FR #7201 | Movie | Comedy | Portugal, USA | Portuguese, English
Director
Antonio Lopes Ribeiro
Writer
Antonio 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?
FR #7299 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Brazil, France | Portuguese, English
Director
Jorge Furtado
Writer
Jorge Furtado
Cast
Lazaro Ramos, Leandra Leal, Luana Piovani
Plot
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.
FR #7815 | TV | Comedy, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese
Cast
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, ...
FR #8522 | Movie | Action, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Wagner Moura
Writer
Felipe Braga, Wagner Moura, Mario Magalhaes
Cast
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...
FR #8531 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | Portuguese, Japanese
Director
Frank Coraci
Writer
Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe
Cast
Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken
Plot
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
FR #8779 | Movie | Drama | Brazil, USA | Portuguese, English
Director
Lais Bodanzky
Writer
Luiz Bolognesi, Austregesilo Carrano
Cast
Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cassia Kis
Plot
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...
FR #9421 | Movie | Crime, Action | Brazil, France | Portuguese, Japanese
Director
Glauber Rocha
Writer
Glauber Rocha
Cast
Mauricio 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...
FR #9927 | Movie | Crime, Thriller | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Rogerio Sganzerla
Writer
Rogerio Sganzerla
Cast
Helena Ignez, Paulo Villaca, Pagano Sobrinho
Plot
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.
FR #10319 | Movie | Biography, Crime | Brazil, USA | Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Mauro Lima
Writer
Guilherme Fiuza, Mariza Leao, Mauro Lima
Cast
Selton Mello, Giulio Lopes, Julia Lemmertz
Plot
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
FR #10767 | Movie | Biography, Comedy | Brazil | Portuguese, English
Director
Daniel Rezende
Writer
Luiz Bolognesi, Fabio Meira
Cast
Vladimir Brichta, Leandra Leal, Taina Muller
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.
FR #10863 | Movie | Documentary, History | Brazil, France | Portuguese, Spanish
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.
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?
FR #11260 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Brazil, USA | Portuguese, Spanish
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.
FR #11300 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Paulo Morelli
Writer
Elena Soarez, Roberto Moreira, Paulo Morelli
Cast
Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen
Plot
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.
FR #11459 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Arthur Duarte
Writer
Joao Bastos, Fernando Fragoso
Cast
Antonio Silva, Maria Matos, Milu
Plot
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.
FR #11667 | Movie | Fantasy, Comedy | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Joaquim Pedro De Andrade
Writer
Joaquim Pedro De Andrade, Mario De Andrade
Cast
Grande Otelo, Paulo Jose, Jardel Filho
Plot
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...
FR #12656 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Brazil, Russia | Portuguese, Russian
Director
Roberto Farias
Writer
Alinor Azevedo, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Roberto Farias
Cast
Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Doria
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.
FR #13708 | TV | Comedy, Drama | USA, Brazil | Portuguese, English
Writer
James L. Brooks
Cast
Lloyd Haynes, Denise Nicholas, Michael Constantine
Plot
Teacher Pete Dixon tries to teach the students at Walt Whitman High to be tolerant. He's assisted by girlfriend and school counselor, Liz and student teacher (later teacher) Alice. The students love him.
FR #13739 | TV | Adventure, Action | Brazil | Portuguese
Cast
Paulo Viniccius 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.
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.
FR #14607 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Brazil, Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Bruno Barreto
Writer
Jorge Amado, Bruno Barreto, Eduardo Coutinho
Cast
Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca
Plot
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.
FR #14918 | Movie | Drama | Portugal | Portuguese, English
Director
Paulo Rocha
Writer
Nuno Braganca, 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...
FR #16530 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Heitor Dhalia
Writer
Marcal Aquino, Heitor Dhalia, Lourenco Mutarelli
Cast
Selton Mello, Paula Braun, Paulo Alves
Plot
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.
FR #16908 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, Spain | Portuguese, French
Director
Giuliano Montaldo
Writer
Mino Roli, Augusto Caminito, Paolo Bianchini
Cast
Janet Leigh, Robert Hoffmann, Klaus Kinski
Plot
To pull off a daring diamond heist in Rio during Carnival, a retired schoolteacher hires four professionals who must contend with a revolutionary alarm system and a taciturn secretary.
FR #17916 | Movie | Drama | Brazil, France | Portuguese, French
Director
Luiz Sergio Person
Writer
Joao 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.
FR #17917 | Movie | Drama | Brazil | Portuguese, Czech
Director
Walter Hugo Khouri
Writer
Walter Hugo Khouri
Cast
Norma Bengell, Odete Lara, Mario Benvenutti
Plot
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...
FR #18790 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Breno Silveira
Writer
Carolina Kotscho, Patricia Andrade
Cast
Angelo Antonio, Dira Paes, Marcio Kieling
Plot
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.
FR #19413 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Lima Barreto
Writer
Lima Barreto, Rachel De Queiroz
Cast
Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro
Plot
'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.
FR #20781 | Movie | Crime, Action | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Jose Henrique Fonseca
Writer
Rubem Fonseca, Patricia Melo
Cast
Murilo Benicio, Claudia Abreu, Natalia Lage
Plot
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.
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.
FR #21796 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Brazil, Germany | Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Aluizio Abranches
Writer
Aluizio Abranches
Cast
Julia Lemmertz, Fabio Assuncao, 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.
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.
FR #22752 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Brazil | Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Claudio Torres
Writer
Claudio Torres
Cast
Wagner Moura, Alinne Moraes, Maria Luisa Mendonca
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...
FR #23888 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Brazil, Hong Kong | Portuguese, Chinese
Director
Domingos De Oliveira
Writer
Eduardo Prado, Domingos De Oliveira
Cast
Leila Diniz, Paulo Jose, Flavio Migliaccio
Plot
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...
FR #24059 | Movie | Documentary | Brazil | Portuguese
Director
Eduardo Coutinho
Writer
Eduardo Coutinho
Cast
Fernando Jose
Plot
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...
FR #24101 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Joao Cesar Monteiro
Writer
Joao Cesar Monteiro
Cast
Joao 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.
Carlos Drummond De Andrade, Joaquim Pedro De Andrade
Cast
Helena Ignez, Paulo Jose, Mario Lago
Plot
In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair ...
FR #24755 | Movie | Comedy | Brazil, France | Portuguese, French
Director
Andre Pellenz
Writer
Paulo Gustavo, Fil Braz, Rafael Dragaud
Cast
Paulo Gustavo, Rodrigo Pandolfo, Mariana Xavier
Plot
After another spat with her kids, Dona HermÃnia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
