Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Brazil, France • Language: English, Italian
Director
Luca Guadagnino
Writer
James Ivory, André Aciman
Cast
Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot
In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets 24-year-old Oliver, an intern working for Elio's father. They discover the heady beauty of awakening des...
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil, France • Language: Portuguese
Director
Walter Salles
Writer
Marcos Bernstein, João Emanuel Carneiro, Walter Salles
Cast
Fernanda Montenegro, VinÃcius de Oliveira, MarÃlia Pêra
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
José Padilha
Writer
José Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel, Bráulio Mantovani
Cast
Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Brazil, Argentina • Language: Portuguese
Director
José Padilha
Writer
José Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel, Bráulio Mantovani
Cast
Wagner Moura, André 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Brazil • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Anna Muylaert
Writer
Anna Muylaert
Cast
Regina Casé, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Jorge Furtado
Writer
Jorge Furtado, CecÃlia Meireles
Cast
Paulo José, Ciça 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 ...
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
na
Writer
na
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, ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Brazil • Language: None, Portuguese
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: Brazil, France • Language: Portuguese, English
Director
Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Writer
Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Cast
Bárbara Colen, Thomás 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?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil, France • Language: Portuguese
Director
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Writer
Kleber Mendonça 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Brazil, UK • Language: Portuguese, English
Director
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Writer
na
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Crime • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese, Spanish
Director
José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Writer
Bráulio Mantovani, José 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil, Germany • Language: Portuguese, Greek
Director
Karim Aïnouz
Writer
Murilo Hauser, Inés Bortagaray, Karim Aïnouz
Cast
Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Adventure • Country: USA, Brazil • Language: English, French
Director
Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer
Ron Clements, John Musker, Greg Erb
Cast
Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey
Plot
A waitress desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: 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.
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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Comedy • Country: Italy, Brazil • Language: Italian, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Wagner Moura
Writer
Felipe Braga, Wagner Moura, Mário Magalhães
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Crime • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Jorge Furtado
Writer
Jorge Furtado
Cast
Lázaro 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Writer
Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Graciliano Ramos
Cast
Ãtila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Orlando Macedo
Plot
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
LaÃs Bodanzky
Writer
Luiz Bolognesi, Austregésilo Carrano
Cast
Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Comedy • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese, English
Director
Daniel Rezende
Writer
Luiz Bolognesi, Fabio Meira
Cast
Vladimir Brichta, Leandra Leal, Tainá Müller
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, History • Country: Brazil • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese, Korean
Director
Alexandre Moratto
Writer
Thayná 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Brazil, France • Language: Portuguese
Director
Glauber Rocha
Writer
Glauber Rocha
Cast
MaurÃcio 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Thriller • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Rogério Sganzerla
Writer
Rogério Sganzerla
Cast
Helena Ignez, Paulo Villaça, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Crime • Country: Brazil • Language: Spanish, Italian
Director
Mauro Lima
Writer
Guilherme Fiúza, Mariza Leão, Mauro Lima
Cast
Selton Mello, Giulio Lopes, Júlia 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Horror • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
José Mojica Marins
Writer
Aldenora De Sa Porto, José Mojica Marins
Cast
José Mojica Marins, Tina Wohlers, Nadia Freitas
Plot
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?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Humberto Mauro
Writer
Humberto Mauro, Octavio Gabus Mendes
Cast
Durval Bellini, Dea Selva, Lu Marival
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Brazil, USA • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Fantasy, Comedy • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Writer
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Mário de Andrade
Cast
Grande Otelo, Paulo José, 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Writer
Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Arnaldo de Farias
Cast
Modesto De Souza, Roberto Bataglin, Jece Valadão
Plot
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Fantasy • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Bruno Barreto
Writer
Jorge Amado, Bruno Barreto, Eduardo Coutinho
Cast
Sonia Braga, José Wilker, Mauro Mendonça
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Roberto Farias
Writer
Alinor Azevedo, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Roberto Farias
Cast
Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Dória
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Heitor Dhalia
Writer
Marçal Aquino, Heitor Dhalia, Lourenço 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Breno Silveira
Writer
Carolina Kotscho, PatrÃcia Andrade
Cast
Ângelo Antônio, Dira Paes, Márcio 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.
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy, Family • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
na
Writer
Flávio de Souza, Cao Hamburger
Cast
Cássio Scapin, Ãlvaro Petersen Jr., Rosi Campos
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA, Brazil • Language: English
Director
Luis Llosa
Writer
Hans Bauer, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.
Cast
Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz
Plot
A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who forces them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Aluizio Abranches
Writer
Aluizio Abranches
Cast
Júlia Lemmertz, Fábio Assunção, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Luiz Sérgio Person
Writer
João Alamy Filho, Jean-Claude Bernardet, Luiz Sérgio 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Jorge Furtado
Writer
Jorge Furtado
Cast
Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Camila Pitanga
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Music • Country: Brazil, USA • Language: English
Director
Geremy Jasper
Writer
Geremy Jasper
Cast
Danielle Macdonald, Sahr Ngaujah, Bridget Everett
Plot
PATTI CAKE$ is centered on aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, who is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in New Jersey.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Walter Hugo Khouri
Writer
Walter Hugo Khouri
Cast
Norma Bengell, Odete Lara, Mário 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Andrucha Waddington
Writer
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
José Henrique Fonseca
Writer
Rubem Fonseca, PatrÃcia Melo
Cast
Murilo BenÃcio, Cláudia Abreu, Natália 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Argentina, Brazil • Language: Guarani, Spanish
Director
Lucrecia Martel
Writer
Antonio Di Benedetto, Lucrecia Martel
Cast
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Plot
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Italy, Brazil • Language: English, Greek
Director
Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Writer
Kevin A. Rice, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Cast
John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps
Plot
Following a tragic car accident in Greece, an American tourist finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Eduardo Coutinho
Writer
Eduardo Coutinho
Cast
Fernando José
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese, English
Director
Walter Carvalho, Sandra Werneck
Writer
Lucinha Araújo, 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.
Category: TV • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Paulo VinÃccius 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Thriller • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Afonso Poyart
Writer
Afonso Poyart
Cast
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Comedy • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese, Spanish
Director
Cláudio Torres
Writer
Cláudio Torres
Cast
Wagner Moura, Alinne Moraes, Maria LuÃsa Mendonça
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Domingos de Oliveira
Writer
Eduardo Prado, Domingos de Oliveira
Cast
Leila Diniz, Paulo José, Flávio 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Drama • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Eduardo Coutinho
Writer
na
Cast
MarÃlia Pêra, Andrea Beltrão, Fernanda Torres
Plot
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
