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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) Adrift
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Portuguese
Description
While spending summer vacation with her family on the idyllic southeast coast of Brazil, fourteen-year-old Filipa discovers that her father, a famous author, is betraying her mother by dallying with a beautiful young American woman. Wrestling with the truth, Filipa will soon discover that her father's infidelity is only the first of many dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of her seemingly perfect family.
3) Araby
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano's house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook, and it's here that Araby begins or, rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano's life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.
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,...
Publisher
Jinga Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Moving to the countryside of 20th century Rio de Janeiro, prim and assuming Laura is unprepared for life on an isolated plantation. Hired as a nanny for two young orphans who live on their uncle's coffee farm, she soon notices that things are not all as they seem. Confronted with continual apparitions, and noting the children's increasingly ambiguous behavior, Laura becomes convinced in the presence of hostile spirits whom she believes are intent...
6) 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.
7) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
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
New Yorker Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Portuguese
Description
A beautiful young woman marries a very erotic man who is a horrible husband. When he unexpectedly dies, she marries again, but misses the passion of her first marriage...until the ghost of her first husband comes to find her.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Veronica is fresh out of medical school. It's a crucial time in her life, a period filled with doubts and important decisions to be made: tough career choices, her intimate bond with her ailing father, and her active but chaotic love life. Veronica must deal with all of them as she tries to cope with the adult life that lies ahead.
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
Portuguese
Description
In a poor, dusty corner of Northeastern Brazil, pregnant Darlene says good-bye to her aged mother, her dusty settlement town, and sets off to be married. The wedding doesn't happen; she returns home years later with a son, in time to bury her mother. Darlene isn't especially young or gorgeous, but she is radiant with a full-bodied, earthy eroticism that proves irresistible to first one, then two, and finally three men. If Darlene needs all three...
11) 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....
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