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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Reality and fantasy collide in the story of a family-owned circus spanning five generations of decadence, love and loss. Starring Vincent Cassel, based on a poem by Jorge de Lima. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. “*One of the Cinema Novo’s founding fathers and perhaps its most interesting exponent.*” – ***Film Comment***
2) 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,...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Paulo Rocha’s haunting second feature, CHANGE OF LIFE, is a beautifully-told story of a young man who returns from abroad to his small fishing village to discover that much has changed. Inspired by his work with Manoel de Oliveira, Rocha “cast” the local villagers as themselves, interspersed with experienced actors led by the great Isabel Ruth who would go on to become an Oliveira regular and an iconic presence in Pedro Costa’s Ossos. The...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
This a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (*Tabu*) uses the structure of *One Thousand and One Nights* in order to tell the story of contemporary Portugal. Gomes' Scheherazade tells fantastic tales both fictional and documentary, from talking roosters to the everyday trials of the unemployed. Gomes weaves a colorful, surreal, and politically potent palimpsest of a film that captures how the great recession has affected...
5) 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**....
6) Pendular
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
A young couple settles down in a large abandoned industrial warehouse. An orange strip, glued to the floor, partitions the area into two equal portions: to the right, his sculpture atelier; to the left, her dance studio. The film takes place in this setting, where art, performances, and intimacy mingle together, and where the characters slowly lose their capacity to distinguish between their artistic projects, their past, and their romantic relationship....
7) Socrates
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a fifteen-year-old living on the margins of Sao Paulo's coast, must survive on his own. As he faces isolation because of his sexuality, his search for a decent, worthy life reaches a breaking point.
8) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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...
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....
12) The way he looks
Publisher
Lacuna Filmes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
A fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager who's fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him reconsider his plans.
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...
14) Fados
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Portuguese
Description
Explore a musical genre that combines African and Brazilian origins into a fusion of cinema, song, dance, and instruments. Includes legends Maria Severa and Amalia Rodrigues, modern stars Mariza and Camane, and more.
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 International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Focuses on the relationship between a young man, André, and his religious but caring family. After running away from his Lebanese-Brazilian abode, André has to confront Pedro, the older brother determined to convince him to return to the protective care of his parents. Torn apart by an unresolved incestuous past with his younger sister, Ana, Pedro has to choose between a life of utopian freedom, removed from all past connections, or re-engagement...
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.
19) Jesus kid
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Eugenio is the author of a once-popular Western novel is experiencing various real-life difficulties. His most famous character, Jesus Kid, a gun-slinging cowboy, is getting bad sales, and his publisher wants him to ghost-write a political biography ... or else. Then appears what could be his salvation. He's hired to write a screenplay, only he's told he must isolate himself for three months in a luxury hotel, to do so. What best-selling film could...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Portuguese
Description
In 1810 Lisbon quakes before the impending invasion of Napoleonic forces led by Marshal Massena. Portuguese and English troops, led by the Duke of Wellington, rebuff the French, but at a terrible cost endured by peasants and aristocrats alike.
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