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Cidade de Deus

Cidade de Deus

Fernando Meirelles 2002 2h 9m 8.9

City of God is one of the most successful Brazilian films of all times. It depicts the raw violence in the ghettos of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970’s that even had young kids carrying guns and joining gangs when they should be playing hide-and-seek.

Blindness

Blindness

Fernando Meirelles 2008 2h 1m 7.6

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Samsara

Samsara

Ron Fricke 2011 1h 42m 8.3

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth

Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders 2014 1h 50m 8.0

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers 2019 1h 49m 7.4

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Tropa de Elite

Tropa de Elite

José Padilha 2007 1h 55m 8.4

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Tabu

Tabu

Miguel Gomes 2012 2h 8.8

When Pilar's befriended neighbour Aurora dies, Pilar starts to dig into Aurora's past and learns about Aurora's very tragic love story.

360

360

Fernando Meirelles 2011 1h 50m 7.5

A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian student breaks up with her boyfriend in London.

L'homme de Rio

L'homme de Rio

Philippe de Broca 1964 1h 57m 7.1

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum.

O Agente Secreto

O Agente Secreto

Kleber Mendonça Filho 2025 2h 41m 8.0

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

The Mission

The Mission

Roland Joffé 1986 2h 5m 7.5

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

Il traditore

Il traditore

Marco Bellocchio 2019 2h 31m 7.5

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

The Salvation

The Salvation

Kristian Levring 2014 1h 32m 6.1

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Muito Gelo e Dois Dedos D'Água

Muito Gelo e Dois Dedos D'Água

Daniel Filho 2006 1h 37m 9.8

Duas mulheres decidem se vingar da avó, que durante a infância delas as atormentava com conceitos rígidos sobre etiqueta e educação, sequestrando-a e levando-a para a casa de praia da família.

The VVitch: A New-England Folktale

The VVitch: A New-England Folktale

Robert Eggers 2015 1h 32m 7.3

New England in the 1630s: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their newborn son vanishes and crops fail, the family turns on one another. Beyond their worst fears, a supernatural evil lurks in the nearby wood.

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

McG 2003 1h 46m 5.1

The Angels investigate a series of murders that occur after the theft of a witness protection profile database. Their prime suspects? A "fallen angel" who was once their ally and the Creepy Thin Man.

Frances Ha

Frances Ha

Noah Baumbach 2012 1h 26m 7.8

Shot in black and white, Frances Ha is about an aspiring dancer (co-writer Greta Gerwig) who moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks. From director Noah Baumbach (Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg).

Bacurau

Bacurau

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles 2019 2h 11m 6.8

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

Ad Astra

Ad Astra

James Gray 2019 2h 3m 6.5

An astronaut embarks on a space mission to investigate a threat to the universe and uncover the truth about his father who disappeared thirty years ago.

Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino 2017 2h 12m 7.8

Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

Love Is Strange

Love Is Strange

Ira Sachs 2014 1h 38m 6.7

After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.

Orfeu Negro

Orfeu Negro

Marcel Camus 1959 1h 40m 8.5

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality.

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Héctor Babenco 1985 2h 6.0

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.

Love

Love

Gaspar Noé 2015 2h 14m 5.5

A young man who feels trapped by an unplanned child with his girlfriend looks back on a previous, perhaps darker, relationship with a woman who is now missing.

Anaconda

Anaconda

Luis Llosa 1997 1h 30m 4.2

A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadliest — snake.

On the Road

On the Road

Walter Salles 2012 2h 22m 5.4

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.

Nosso Lar

Nosso Lar

Wagner de Assis 2010 1h 43m 6.0

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

Nina

Nina

Heitor Dhalia 2004 1h 25m 8.0

Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Aquarius

Aquarius

Kleber Mendonça Filho 2016 2h 27m 7.3

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence

Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence

Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne 2007 1h 40m 7.4

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.

Non c'è due senza quattro

Non c'è due senza quattro

Enzo Barboni 1984 1h 40m 7.3

A stuntman and a saxophonist stand in for two billionaires threatened by killers.

Carandiru

Carandiru

Héctor Babenco 2003 2h 25m 7.0

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people.

Tropa de Elite 2 - O Inimigo agora é outro

Tropa de Elite 2 - O Inimigo agora é outro

José Padilha 2010 1h 55m 7.9

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners.

A Vida Invisível

A Vida Invisível

Karim Aïnouz 2019 2h 20m 8.0

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other.

O Menino e o Mundo

O Menino e o Mundo

Alê Abreu 2013 1h 20m 9.0

Enter the whimsy of a small child fascinated by all that the quiet countryside offers. His cozy life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting the boy to embark on a quest to re-unite his family. What he is not prepared for is a new world of industrialism and modern technology.

Blue Crush

Blue Crush

John Stockwell 2002 1h 44m 5.6

Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition.

Cinegibi - O Filme - Turma da Mônica

Cinegibi - O Filme - Turma da Mônica

José Marcio Nicolosi 2004 1h 12m 10.0

Franjinha, the inventor kid in Monica's gang, tired of reading the comics, invents a new device to read the stories: a kind of a story-processor, that swallows the printed pages and projects the scenes in movement, on the wall.

Macunaíma

Macunaíma

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade 1969 1h 50m 6.0

As aventuras de Macunaíma, o herói sem nenhum caráter, e suas andanças por um Brasil em transformação. Um compêndio dos mitos, lendas e da alma do brasileiro, a partir do clássico romance de Mario de Andrade.

O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias

O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias

Cao Hamburger 2006 1h 43m 7.2

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

Rosario Tijeras

Rosario Tijeras

Emilio Maillé 2005 2h 6m 8.0

Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, Antonio, at a nightclub, and starts an affair with Emilio despite Antonio's growing feelings for her.

Amazonia

Amazonia

Thierry Ragobert 2013 1h 23m 6.0

A monkey raised in captivity is released into the Amazon forest to fend for itself.

Jauja

Jauja

Lisandro Alonso 2014 1h 50m 7.0

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

2012: Time for Change

2012: Time for Change

Joao G. Amorim 2010 1h 25m 6.0

2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ecological design.

O Som ao Redor

O Som ao Redor

Kleber Mendonça Filho 2012 2h 11m 10.0

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

Bruna Surfistinha

Bruna Surfistinha

Marcus Baldini 2011 1h 49m 6.0

Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences.

ABCs of Death 2

ABCs of Death 2

Rodney Ascher, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen 2014 2h 4m 7.5

Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.

Central do Brasil

Central do Brasil

Walter Salles 1998 1h 51m 8.3

Central do Brasil is a Brazilian film from Walter Salles about the relationship between an old and bitter woman and a young orphan boy.

Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver

Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver

José Mojica Marins 1967 1h 48m 7.3

Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.

O Auto da Compadecida

O Auto da Compadecida

Guel Arraes 2000 1h 44m 8.9

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. But when they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary, before they are admitted to paradise.

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Héctor Babenco 1981 2h 7m 8.6

The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.

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