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Compasso de Espera | Jorge de Oliveira | 1973-01-01 | Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and… |
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Soul in the Eye | | 1973-01-01 | Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye marks the beginning of Black Brazilian… |
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Cinco Vezes Favela | (segment “Pedreira de São Diego”) | 1962-01-01 | Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro…. |
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Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz | | 1967-12-14 | In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for t… |
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Black Goddess | | 1978-01-01 | A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine war… |
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Brutos Inocentes | João Capataz | 1974-11-20 | A drama in the amazonian country…. |
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Referências | | 2006-01-01 | … |
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A Menina e o Estuprador | Pedro | 1982-01-01 | In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by her butler and driver Pedr… |
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5x Favela, Now by Ourselves | | 2010-08-25 | The project ‘5 x slum, now by ourselves’ gathered over 80 young people from Rio’s favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking t… |
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Pureza Proibida | Chico | 1975-04-26 | Baby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a fishing village and gives up religious life when she falls … |
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República da Traição | | 1970-01-01 | European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will … |
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O Papel e o Mar | João Cândido | 2012-11-14 | The film narrates the imaginary encounter between João Cândido, leader of Revolta da Chibata and a paper picker and writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, … |
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A Compadecida | Jesus | 1969-01-22 | … |
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Grande Sertão | | 1965-01-01 | Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that “he” is a girl dressed in man’s clothes. After Diadorim’s father is killed, she sw… |
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Memória Viva | | 1987-12-17 | … |
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Exu Rei – Abdias do Nascimento | Himself | 2017-10-18 | The African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of communication, the guard of the streets and the human… |
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El Justicero | | 1967-04-13 | A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the self-consc… |
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True Brazil | | 1968-12-08 | In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called “Brasil Verdade” (“Tr… |
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O homem que sabia javanês | Africano | 2004-06-16 | … |
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O Engano | Amante | 1967-01-01 | … |
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Veja & Ouça – Maria Baderna no Brasil | | 2004-02-01 | In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film use… |
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Natal da Portela | | 1988-02-19 | Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of … |
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A Guerra dos Pelados | Vitorino | 1970-01-01 | In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former own… |
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In Evil Hour | Carmichael | 2006-02-02 | The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis fa… |
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Ganga Zumba | | 1963-04-16 | The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves…. |
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo | | 1967-01-01 | Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the “Cinema Novo” movement (otherwise known as the ‘Brazilian New … |
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Garden of War | | 1968-09-23 | Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil’s military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for he… |
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O Homem Nu | | 1968-03-04 | A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment…. |
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Quilombo | Stone Man | 1984-06-03 | Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-kn… |
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Ana, a Libertina | | 1975-09-01 | … |
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Giselle | Jorge | 1980-03-05 | Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father’s marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her… |
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The Suns of Easter Island | Helvio | 1972-08-23 | Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery…. |
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The Godless Bandit | | 1969-01-01 | … |
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Oswaldo Cruz, o Médico do Brasil | | 2003-01-02 | … |
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The Forest | Procópio | 2002-11-01 | Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a mar… |
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Entranced Earth | Repórter | 1967-05-08 | Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jade… |
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The Palace of Angels | Embaixador | 1970-05-25 | Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, “The Palace of Angels”, s… |
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Daughters of the Wind | Marquinhos (velho) | 2005-09-16 | É uma lÃrica história de redenção amorosa entre irmãs, mães e filhas, em uma pequena cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, onde os fantasmas da e… |
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The Girl from Ipanema | | 1967-05-26 | Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend… |
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Sagarana: O Duelo | Demônio | 1974-08-26 | Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal’s victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown…. |
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Parceiros da Aventura | Motorista da greve | 1979-06-10 | … |
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