À la Recherche d'Orfeu Negro
May 20, 2005Étude sur le film Black Orpheus de Marcel Camus de 1959, ses racines culturelles et musicales et sa résonance au Brésil aujourd’hui.
Documentary
Suzana de Moraes
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Cuidado Madame
Jan 01, 1970Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.
Comedy
Pedro Diabo Ama Rosa Meia Noite
Jan 01, 1969Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.
Crime
O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Jun 07, 1971Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
Comedy
Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show
May 27, 1966Documentary about Maria Bethânia, at the very beginning of her career as a singer, when she arrived in Rio da Bahia to replace Nara Leão in the show Opinião. Bethânia's appearance, at that time in southern Rio, was a cultural shock that shook the city. The film also contains scenes of her daily life and meetings with other musicians.
Documentary
Vinicius
Nov 01, 2005To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.
Documentary
Pecado Mortal
Oct 30, 1970The eccentric members of a wealthy Brazilian family each go through personal torment, debauchery and intense guilt in this symbolic and gory film. The father has made a fortune in the slaughterhouse business and ignores the feelings of his wife and his workers. He frequents a mulatto woman, who is always seen naked. His daughter and her friend act on their lesbian fantasies before her friend marries her brother. An elderly aunt seduces the brother before she drowns herself in the swimming pool. His lesbian sister shoots the girl, and the boy incestuously attacks his mother. When the mother threatens to leave, the father begs for her to stay and continue the hollow charade of their marriage for the sake of social appearances. The father grovels before his mistress after his daughter slashes her wrists. Any comparison between this dysfunctional family, the Manson family, and Shelley Winters' sick Barker brood in Bloody Mama is all an unfortunate artistic coincidence.
Drama
Perfume de Gardênia
Aug 07, 1992Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.
Crime
Garôta de Ipanema
May 26, 1967Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
Drama
Brasília, Uma Sinfonia
Jan 02, 1986Documentary
L'homme du bois Brésil
Feb 22, 1982Comédie fantastique sur l’écrivain brésilien Oswald de Andrade, l’une des icônes les plus importantes du modernisme au Brésil. Dans le film, Oswald est joué par deux acteurs: Ítala Nandi, dans le rôle de son anima féminin, et Flávio Galvão, dans le rôle de la moitié masculine.
Comedy
Pan-Cinema Permanente
Nov 14, 2008Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic pretention. His convictions affected many friends like Antonio Cícero, Caetano Veloso and Carlos Nader, who documented Waly's life for 15 years. But how does one make a documentary about someone who believes everything is fiction?
Documentary
O Gigante da América
Nov 23, 1980A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.
Adventure
Os Monstros de Babaloo
Jan 01, 1970Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.
Comedy
O Lobisomem: O Terror da Meia-Noite
Jan 13, 1975A millionaire lives in a sinister cottage where strange events unfold. A damned creature, he transforms himself in a werewolf and leads a following whose adepts spread horror and despair in the neighboring city, becoming themselves a clan of assassins. One day, the werewolf confronts Branca Justiça (White Justice), who summons benign forces to scathe them and frees him of his own wickedness.
Horror
O Amor Natural
Dec 05, 1996O AMOR NATURAL is a documentary film about the erotic poetry of one of the greatest Latin American poets of the 20th century, the Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987). The erotic poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a household name in Brazil, remained unpublished during his lifetime, as he feared they would be deemed pornographic. In this celebration of his poetry and sensual vision, elderly residents of Rio read his poems and comment on their graphic, voluptuous imagery with tremendous candor and enthusiasm.
Documentary
Suzana de Moraes
Jul 13, 2005Documentary
A velha, o canto, as fotos
Jan 01, 2001
Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família
Oct 09, 1983A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.
Documentary
L'homme du bois Brésil
Feb 22, 1982A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.
Comedy
Mil e Uma
Oct 15, 1996Alice faces a lot of trouble to make a film about artist Marcel Duchamp. She randomly chooses musician Antônio for the main part, and ends up having an affair with him.
Drama
Para Viver Um Grande Amor
Apr 30, 1984Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.
Drama
Adriana Calcanhotto - Público
Aug 28, 2008Live shows recorded in Rio De Janeiro. This DVD includes versions of their biggest hits never heard before including 4 unpublished tracks. This is an excellent chance to watch the exciting Adriana Calcanhotto in action.
Music
Vinicius
Nov 01, 2005To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.
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