Cinema Novo 2016    star_border 6.7
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

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Salt Kiss 2007    star_border 2
A confirmed bachelor tries to persuade his recently engaged friend back to his old carefree life.

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The Brazilwood Man 1982    star_border 4.8
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.

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O Aleijadinho 1978    star_border 6.8
O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more than 20 years earlier. de Andrade dedicated the film to his father, who had sent him on the expedition.

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Gordos e Magros 1976
After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.

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Conjugal Warfare 1975    star_border 5.3
Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.

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Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City 1968    star_border 7.5
In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

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Paradise Inc. Release date not available
Brazilian mobsters kidnap daughter of billionaire and demand her boyfriend lose a high stakes poker match for her safe return.

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