My Favorite Brazilian Movies
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- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsHermila GuedesMaria MenezesZezita MatosIn order to get funds, a young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsLázaro RamosMarcelia CartaxoFlavio BauraquiLoose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsLeila DinizPaulo JoséFlávio MigliaccioA womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. He falls in love and believes she is, in fact, all women in one. Because of that, he faces an important decision: go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.
- DirectorGlauber RochaStarsJardel FilhoPaulo AutranJosé LewgoyIn the fictional Latin American country Eldorado, a poet tries to effect political change by influencing powerful men.
- DirectorRogério SganzerlaStarsHelena IgnezJorge LoredoMaria GladysBanker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsIrandhir SantosJuliano CazarréMatheus NachtergaeleZizo (Irandhir Santos) é um poeta inconformado e anarquista, que banca a publicação de seu tablóide. Em seu mundo próprio, onde o sexo é algo tão corriqueiro quanto fumar maconha, ele conhece Eneida (Nanda Costa). Zizo logo sente um forte desejo por Eneida, mas, apesar de seus constantes pedidos, ela se recusa a ter relações sexuais com ele. Isto transtorna a vida do poeta, que passa a sentir falta de algo que jamais teve.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsRodrigo SantoroOthon BastosCássia KisA trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.
- DirectorJuliano DornellesKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsBárbara ColenThomas AquinoSilvero PereiraAfter the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.