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1) Medusa
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, but underneath it all they harbor a deep rage. By day they hide behind their manicured facade, and by night they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her view of community,...
2) Greta
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Pedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse and a big fan of Greta Garbo, needs to find an empty bed in the hospital where he works to save his best friend, Daniela. To do so he decides to help Jean, a criminal in police custody, escape from the premises. But then, worried about Jean's health, Pedro sets the criminal up in his apartment to treat his wounds. The two wind up having a highly-charged affair that brings to the surface Pedro's won solitude, now augmented...
3) Aquarius
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Clara, a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover 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. As the builders’ tactics to remove Clara become increasingly hostile, Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with. Nominated for the Palm d'Or and the Queer Palm at the **Cannes Film Festival**....
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Never before released in the US, Paulo Rocha’s debut feature THE GREEN YEARS, gloriously shot in black and white, is an extraordinary and haunting coming-of-age tale. Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, the two begin a tentative romance until the realities of the outside world come crashing...
5) Beira-mar
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Having drifted apart, Martin invites his friend Tomaz to go to southern Brazil, where he is traveling to sort out a family inheritance matter. Tomaz is openly gay yet has never discussed this with Martin. Martin does know, however, and furthermore harbors an attraction for his old friend. Once the two young men arrive at the seaside cottage, inevitably, awkward feelings develop, as they explore the borders between friendship and love.
6) Vazante
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Upon returning from a trading expedition, Antonio discovers that his wife has died in labor. Confined to a decadent but desolate property in the company of his aging mother-in-law and numerous slaves, he marries his wife₂s young niece, Beatriz. Separated from her family and left alone on the rugged farmhouse in the Brazilian mountains, Beatriz finds solace in the displaced and oppressed inhabitants around her.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal,...
8) Sequestrada
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story is about American investors building an illegal dam in the Amazon. Thomas must travel to Brazil to help persuade an indigenous agency bureaucrat overseeing the project. But when a young indigenous girl is kidnapped and forced into prostitution, Thomas is entangled in a tug-of-war with the indigenous people this dam would displace.
9) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...
10) Boy & the world
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Cuca's cozy rural life in Brazil is shattered when his father leaves for the city. Determined to reunite his family, he embarks on a journey into civilization, where despite the harsh life and industrialized landscape, he finds that peoples' hearts continue to beat together in song.
Publisher
O2 Filmes
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Portuguese
Description
Built in the 1960s, Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a sprawling housing project built to keep the poor as far as possible from Rio's glamorous beaches and resorts. By the 1980s, it has degenerated into a war zone so dangerous that visitors from outside risk being shot to death on sight, a poisonous stew of poverty, drugs, and crime. "If you run away, they get you, and if you stay, they get you, too," says Rocket, who wants to be a photographer....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
13) Central Station
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Portuguese
Description
When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
14) Bye bye Brazil
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Portuguese
Description
A hypnotically languorous road movie with an upbeat political kick. The story follows a smalltime traveling sideshow, a Magician, a Strongman, and the Exotic Dancer as they head down dusty roads facing increasing disinterest.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Portuguese
Description
In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Portuguese
Description
The rigorous process of moviemaking meets the torpor of pandemic life in this beguiling new film co-directed by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes. Three close friends Crista Carloto and Joô along with the entire film crew become the protagonists of a cinematic experiment shot during the lockdown. Delve into the colorful world of one of the most playful films of the pandemic for which personal restrictions provided a source of inspiration and pure...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Solitary ornithologist Fernando embarks on a search for an elusive species of stork but is quickly swept away by raging rapids. Rescued by a pair of Chinese pilgrims, Fernando ends up lunging headlong into an eerie and dark forest.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Tall, dark, androgynously handsome, Pierre wears eyeliner and a black lace g-string, while having sex with both boys and girls. The confusion only goes deeper when the teenager's single, working-class mom is arrested for having stolen him at birth. Thanks to the wonders of DNA, he's returned to his biological parents: bourgeois, straight- laced and thrilled to have him back, at least until he shows up in a zebra-print mini dress.
20) Futuro beach
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Portuguese
Description
Part gay romance, part inquisitive self-journey, a stunning examination of lives lost and found. Donato works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing with a friend. After Donato saves Konrad from drowning, but fails to save his other friend, initial sexual sparks give way to a deeper, emotional connection.
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