Movies: Brazilian cinema

In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does no...

After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city....

Chico Bento leads a quiet life in Vila Abobrinha, surrounded by his friends and guavas, until the construction of a road on Mr. Nhô Lau's land threatens his guava tree and mobilizes the whole gang....

Jesus, who's hitting the big 3-0, brings a surprise guest to meet the family. A Christmas special so wrong it must be from comedians Porta dos Fundos....

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A group of old friends gathers for a biannual barbecue at the host's house. Everything seems fine, until the carnivorous party takes an unexpected turn and the true relationships between characters are revealed and show that not everything is as it s...

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Two friends, filmmaker Miguel and actor Rodrigo, win the grand prize of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. After drinking too much, Rodrigo signs a lifetime contract to star in Miguel's next film. Miguel mysteriously disappears and comes back ten ...

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitud...

In this biblical "Hangover" spoof, the apostles awaken to find Jesus is missing and must piece together events of the previous night's wild Last Supper....

A young man interviews former child-actor Rodrigo Escher, only to be drawn into his idol's nightmarish web of diabolical secrets and sexual perversions....

When Max, a former MMA world champion about to retire, discovers he has an 8-year-old autistic son, his life is turned upside down. Now, as he trains for one last opportunity to regain his world champion title, Max must deal with his new family and h...

This documentary accompanies the journey of artists who exalt and celebrate ancestry and the orishas in their work. It also offers a manifesto against one of the biggest problems facing Brazil: religious racism. The feature brings together stories fr...

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Documentary short film covering two survivors of the argentinian military dictatorship....

Janaína is a black screenwriter embarking on a new audiovisual project. She meets the rest of the team, where all of whom are white, on a farm. Pedro, the leader of the script room, disappears. Janaína investigates and makes unimaginable discoveries....

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti....

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way tha...

Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning of the journey for some of the biggest and most popular films of Brazilian history. The documentary ...