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O Roteirista
8

O Roteirista

Jan 01, 2012

O Roteirista
2012 49 min 1 vues
32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.
Documentary
Licença Poética
1

Licença Poética

Sep 27, 2019

Licença Poética
2019 13 min 1 vues
Marçal Aquino, one of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil, talks about how literature liberated him. Felipe, an almost ordinary reader, says that he reads to free himself. The meeting between the two reveals that the wall that apparently separates them is much less thick than being could imagine.
Documentary
Nina
5.8

Nina

Jan 28, 2004

Nina
2004 85 min 24 vues
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Drama
O Cheiro do Ralo
7.1

O Cheiro do Ralo

Sep 27, 2006

O Cheiro do Ralo
2006 112 min 137 vues
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.
Comedy
Crime Delicado
5.4

Crime Delicado

Sep 30, 2005

Crime Delicado
2005 87 min 15 vues
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
Drama
Cão Sem Dono
6

Cão Sem Dono

May 11, 2007

Cão Sem Dono
2007 82 min 15 vues
In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.
Drama
Os Matadores
5.7

Os Matadores

Sep 10, 1997

Os Matadores
1997 90 min 7 vues
Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.
Drama
Os Matadores
5.7

Os Matadores

Sep 10, 1997

Os Matadores
1997 90 min 7 vues
Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.
Drama
Pitanga
5.6

Pitanga

Sep 23, 2016

Pitanga
2016 113 min 5 vues
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Documentary
O Invasor
6.853

O Invasor

Nov 24, 2001

O Invasor
2001 97 min 51 vues
Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.
Drama
Ação Entre Amigos
6.1

Ação Entre Amigos

Oct 15, 1998

Ação Entre Amigos
1998 76 min 14 vues
Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.
Drama
Cabeça a Prêmio
3.7

Cabeça a Prêmio

Aug 20, 2010

Cabeça a Prêmio
2010 104 min 3 vues
The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.
Drama
Ação Entre Amigos
6.1

Ação Entre Amigos

Oct 15, 1998

Ação Entre Amigos
1998 76 min 14 vues
Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.
Drama
País do Desejo
1

País do Desejo

Jan 26, 2012

País do Desejo
2012 86 min 1 vues
Roberta is a renowned classical pianist battling a chronic kidney disease. However, an unexpected encounter with Father José will forever change her life.
Drama
Tungstênio
4.5

Tungstênio

Jun 21, 2018

Tungstênio
2018 79 min 13 vues
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
Drama
7

Dec 23, 2016
2016 min 10 vues
Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures and supernatural odds.
Crime
7

Dec 23, 2016
2016 min 10 vues
Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures and supernatural odds.
Crime
5.5

Dec 22, 2011
2011 min 3 vues
Força-Tarefa is a Brazilian television series directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and Mário Márcio Bandarra and written by Fernando Bonassi Marçal Aquino. The series aired two season since April 16, 2009 on Rede Globo.
Crime
3

Jun 20, 2017
2017 min 5 vues
Drama
7

Dec 23, 2016
2016 min 10 vues
Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures and supernatural odds.
Crime
5.5

Dec 22, 2011
2011 min 3 vues
Força-Tarefa is a Brazilian television series directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and Mário Márcio Bandarra and written by Fernando Bonassi Marçal Aquino. The series aired two season since April 16, 2009 on Rede Globo.
Crime
7.2

Jul 11, 2014
2014 min 4 vues
After three years locked up for a crime he didn’t commit, former police officer André Câmara is back on the streets working as a bounty hunter and determined to prove his innocence. Gripping, south American sizzler charting the action from the mean streets of Brazil to the bedrooms of the law enforcers.
Crime
8.5

Jan 22, 2021
2021 min 6 vues
Crime