Brazilian Best (14 titles)
Lower City
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Lower City
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Lazaro Ramos, Alice Braga, Wagner Moura
Director: Sergio Machado
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A steamy love triangle set in the low life milieu of Brazil's Salvador del Bahia, where violence is always likely to erupt. Deco and Naldhino are lifelong friends and co-owners of a small boat. On a trip down the river they give a ride to Karinna, a young hooker whose services they enthusiastically ..read more »
52%
from 3,227 members
The Man Who Copied
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The Man Who Copied
(2003)
Starring: Lazaro Ramos, Leandra Leal, Luana Piovani
Director: Jorge Furtado
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Sweet quirky movie, infused with magical realism, that tells a story of André, the photocopier operator, who likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a telescope. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, goes to her shop, but finds out that he can't afford it. So he puts the photocopier ..read more »
84%
from 19 members
Central Station
A former school teacher, who write letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, go on a journey in search for the father he never knew.
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Central Station
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera, Vincius De Oliveira
Director: Walter Salles
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Dora is a former school teacher who makes a living by writing letters for illiterate people passing through Rio de Janeiro's main train station, Central Station. Among her clients are Ana and her nine-year-old son Josue, who has a fierce desire to meet his father, whom he has never seen. Dora has ..read more »
72%
from 6,756 members
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
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Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
(1981)
Starring: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Juliao
Director: Hector Babenco
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Portraying the casual cruelty and abuse that an eight-year-old Brazilan street boy suffers when he is taken to a boys reformatory.
90%
from 10 members
Who Killed Pixote?
The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.
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Who Killed Pixote?
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Maria Luisa Mendonca, Tuca Andrada, Cassiano Carneiro
Director: Jose Joffily
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PIXOTE is director Hector Babenco's award-winning 1980 Brazilian film about one boy's struggle to survive the terrors of street life in Sao Paolo. The character of Pixote was played by poor child actor Fernando Ramos da Silva, selected from 1300 potential other boys to play the lead, and who was to ..read more »
52%
from 234 members
Carandiru
Directed by Hector Babenco (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985), the film is based on the life experiences of Dr. Drauzio Varella who worked in the prison complex Carandiru, in the north zone of Sao Paulo city, carrying out Aids prevention work. Not the usual 'chain gang' film.
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Carandiru
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Milhem Cortaz, Milton Goncalves
Director: Hector Babenco
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Acclaimed Argentinean director Hector Babenco (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, PIXOTE), blends pathos and black comedy in this adaptation of the autobiographical book CARANDIRU STATION by Dr. Drauzio Varella, who worked inside Sao Paulo's now-defunct Carandiru Prison. In 1992, overcrowded Carandiru ..read more »
64%
from 4,707 members
Bossa Nova
Light-hearted, quirky fim about a lawyer (Antonio Fagundes) who is recently separated from his travel agent wife Tania and meets an American woman (Amy Irving) working as a teacher of English in Rio. Beautiful colours and photography!
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Bossa Nova
(2000)
Starring: Amy Irving, Antonio Fagundes, Alexandre Borges
Director: Bruno Barreto Bruno Barreto, Bruno Barreto
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Rio lawyer Pedro Paulo is recently separated from his travel agent wife Tania. His office has taken on an energetic new intern, Sharon. Pedro Paulo is working on a divorce case - his own father's... Mary Ann is an English language teacher living in Rio. Her friend Nadine has been having an Internet ..read more »
56%
from 5 members
Behind The Sun
In the dry, deserted landscape of the Brazilian Northeast, when ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence and non-stop killing between two rival families. Features Brazilian star Rodrigo Santoro (300, Charlie's Angels, Love Actually)
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Behind The Sun
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jose Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos
Director: Walter Salles
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BEHIND THE SUN takes place in 1910, in the small town of Stream-of-Souls, Brazil, where two families have been engaged in a long battle for control of what appears to be nearly barren land. The Breves clan--mother, father, 20-year-old Tonio, and little Pacu (called the kid), are a poor family ..read more »
65%
from 1,515 member
Awakening Of The Beast
Horrorhead Jose Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe) most experimental film. If you don't know his work at all this is probably not the one to start with ...
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Awakening Of The Beast
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: José Mojica Marins
Director: Jose Mojica Marins
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This third film by Jose Mojica Marins to feature his character "Coffin Joe," AWAKENING OF THE BEAST is a fictional document of the drug craze and its relation to the increase of perversity among young people in the 1960s. In vignette after vignette, everyone from hippies to starlets prove to the ..read more »
44%
from 140 members
City Of God
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City Of God
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Matheus Nachtergaele, Seu Jorge, Alexandre Rodrigues
Director: Katia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
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Two features. Youth gangs took over the slums of Rio de Janiero during the 1960s and didn't relinquish their stronghold until the mid-1980s. Only a sucker wouldn't have turned to crime and this is exactly how naive teen Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) views himself in 'City Of God'. His attempts in ..read more »
78%
from 60,332 members
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