Brazilian / Portuguese Film
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- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsLeonardo VillarAnecy RochaAntonio PitangaLuzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsJuliana Carneiro da CunhaÍtala NandiFlávio GalvãoFantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
- DirectorRoberto FariasStarsEliezer GomesReginaldo FariaJorge DóriaFilm 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.
- DirectorArne SucksdorffStarsLeila Santos de SousaCosme dos SantosJosafá Da Silva SantosJorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes. Rico escaped from an institution in Caxambu that symbolizes hell on Earth for them. When he gets ill, he decides to return to the place because he does not want to die on the streets.
- DirectorRoberto FariasStarsRoberto CarlosJosé LewgoyReginaldo FariaAn international gang chases a singer who's making a film.
- DirectorRoberto FariasStarsReginaldo FariaCarlos ZaraAntônio FagundesThis movie is about one of the worst periods for the Brazilian people. Shows the days of military dictatorship when the Brazilian people against the government were put in jails, tortured, and some of them assassinated by the military and para-military people. At the same time, the same government censored the press and didn't allow anything but news about three times-champion soccer team. While the people made parties, etc for the soccer team, in the underground, people suffered all kinds of torture.
- DirectorWalter Lima Jr.StarsAnecy RochaÊnio GonçalvesHélio FernandoIt is the year after World War 3 and the film follows the odyssey of a girl and her mother as they explore a devastated Brazil.
- DirectorPedro Carlos RovaiStarsAdriana PrietoCecil ThiréSérgio HingstTatá is a typical Rio de Janeiro guy, easy living, hedonistic, living in an apartment in one of those buildings where everything goes, in Copacabana, near the beach. One day a beautiful new neighbor, Teresa, moves into the apartment in front of his, and he falls in love.
- DirectorVictor di MelloStarsCláudio CavalcantiMário BenvenuttiDilma LóesIn Rio de Janeiro, the renowned doctor and professor François Miranda brings his wife Juliana to the airport to travel with her cousin to Switzerland. Out of the blue, youth Alberto Lobo introduces himself to François explaining that he is the son of his old friend Renato. Womanizer Lobo had had problems in São Paulo and his father sent him to live in Rio de Janeiro. Lobo organizes a party with booze and women in François's apartment and the neighbors gossip about the event. When Lobo meets the gorgeous aspirant actress Claudia on the beach, he lures her and tells her he is a prominent theater producer from São Paulo and invites the beautiful girl for a test with the director in François's apartment. However his friend is reluctant to borrow the apartment and Lobo plots a scheme with his maid Dorilana that has a crush on François. However, when Claudia's grandmother and François's client and neighbor Ms. Chiquinha finds that her granddaughter has been lured by Lobo but is in love with the liar, she uses her life experience to advise Claudia.
- DirectorPaulo César SaraceniStarsNorma BengellTetê MedinaCarlos KroeberNewly wed arrives at her husband's family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law's room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She's only to return seventeen years later, and sick.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsJosé WilkerLuiz LinharesPaulo César PeréioA film version of the Minas Gerais Conspiracy, a separatist movement that took place on the year 1789, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.
- DirectorWalter Hugo KhouriStarsLilian LemmertzMário BenvenuttiKate HansenA psychiatrist lends her country house to a patient, expecting she would repose. But she meets a neurotic former lover, and the psychiatrist gets so involved in the couple's problems that she ends up getting dependent of them.
- DirectorLuiz Sérgio PersonStarsPaulo JoséSandra BréaSônia ClaraA tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsJeanne MoreauEliezer GomesCarlos KroeberJoana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at Sao Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest surroundings of a landlord's farmhouse. To the extent she will defend her land like a 19th century owner - of lands and men alike...
- DirectorMiguel Faria Jr.StarsTarcísio MeiraSandra BréaAnselmo VasconcelosIn 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, symbol of the group, caused an uncomfortable indignation. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the policemen, who was part of the Homens de Aço (Steelmen) group, one of the factions in which the squadron was divided.
- DirectorLuiz Sérgio PersonStarsAna EsmeraldaEva WilmaOtelo ZeloniA man lives in conflict as he deals with his friends and love interests against the backdrop of São Paulo.
- DirectorAry FernandesStarsCarmem AngélicaHércules BarbosaMário BenvenuttiWhile his wife Lucia is on vacation in Guarujá, Amaro sets up a scheme with his partner to meet other women. His partner's wife and his mother-in-law find out about the plan and tell Lucia. Angered, Lucia tries to get involved with a TV star and a good-looking young man. At the same time, a couple tries to consummate their honeymoon, and other people also seek sexual pleasure during the summer. Amaro, on the other hand, gets a date but not everything goes as expected.
- DirectorLuiz Paulino Dos SantosStarsJofre SoaresMarieta SeveroMaurício do ValleMan leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad.
- DirectorAdriano StuartStarsHélio SoutoDionísio AzevedoMaurício do Valle"Jaws" spoof. The title means "Cod". A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea. To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese oceanographer, a fearless fisherman and baits made with Amália Rodrigues's records.
- DirectorWalter Hugo KhouriStarsSelma EgreiEliezer GomesLilian LemmertzStudent girl goes to a mansion in Petrópolis, Brazil, to babysit two children, while their parents are away for the weekend, and is terrorized by anonymous phonecalls originating in the house.
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsHelena RamosTony CorreiaCarlos KoppaThe loves and life of a beautiful Brazilian Indian woman.
- DirectorJean GarretStarsDavid CardosoBenjamin CattanRuthinéa de MoraesDr. Leme, a rich old man, is frustrated about not having children with his wife Raquel. In his mansion, he gives parties filled with drinking and sex with his secretaries. André, his driver, becomes lover of Rachel and they plan to kill Lemer to get hold of his fortune.
- DirectorGeraldo VietriStarsSandra BréaElizabeth HartmannChico MartinsGay hairdresser falls in love with the straight son of one of his customers.