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Sun
Act like Theodoro
event2021
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A recently divorced father, who cannot reconnect with his 10-year-old daughter, is forced to travel with her to the countryside to meet his own father, who abandoned him as a child and now is an old man who wants to die. The forced intimacy with the father he hates and the immediate connection between daughter and grandfather test all his limits, but might also be the chance to get closer to his daughter again.
Behind the Sun
Act like Velho Cego
event2001 star_border 7.3
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Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter
Act like Omar
event2022 star_border 6
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Isabella, Jonata and Pedro are stuck at home for a weekend. Distressed by the state of the world and financial difficulties, the trio decides to go out on the streets of a dystopian São Paulo to relax, which allows them to meet many individuals in a similar situation, causing tragicomic and fantastic situations.
Blue Eyes
Act like Avô
event2010 star_border 6.3
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Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the death of a young Brazilian. After a period in prison, Marshall goes to Brazil, deadly ill and in a desperate search in order to purge his guilt. In his quest, he is guided by Bia, a young prostitute.
Love from Mother Only
Act like Filho
event2003 star_border 5.6
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Filho is a miserable bastard. He's divided between the duty of nursing his fanatic mother and his obsessive lust for Formosa - a whore of Satan . His dilemma casts him into an abyss of violence, witchcraft, death and demonic trance.
Batguano
Act like Batman
event2014 star_border 4.7
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In a bleak future, the inseparable Batman and Robin live in a remote trailer. As punk-rock reenactors, they realize that planet Earth has become too small for their perfection, genius and power, and decide to find their place in the galaxies.
Pingo d'Água
event2014
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One country, three completely different cities. People move seeking a change not only territorially, but also - and mainly - internally. Traveling brings them closer to themselves, immersed in a universe with a poetic look like life.
Os Mortos
event2015
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A plumber finds the old owner of an abandoned house. The stranger is conducting a paranormal experiment.
Segunda-Feira, Então
Act like Ciro
event2024
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Claudia, Jade's single mother, delivers Ifood to pay her bills. Her landlord, Ciro, charges the rent in a sinister and invasive way. She has seven days to pay her rent on Monday.
Os Pobres Diabos
event2013 star_border 7
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The Gran Circo Teatro Americano takes its attractions to the northeastern hinterland. In the city of Aracati, the troupe puts on a fun play about the crisis in hell. With a rochamboesque plot and inspired by string literature, the attraction shows the arrival of the bandit Lamparino to hell and how Lucifer participates in international capitalism. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, loves and tragedies move the lives of artists.
Espumas ao Vento
event2022
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A tragedy occurs during a performance by an artistic troupe. And this episode redefines the lives of two sisters. Both live with the ghosts of what happened while a shepherd tries to expand his flock.
Southwest
Act like Malaquias
event2011 star_border 5.7
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In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.
Last Sunday
Act like Dotaim
event2022 star_border 5
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The dawn is strange, with a harbinger of change. The next morning, Maria receives a mysterious visitor that leaves José disturbed and will lead her to re-signify her own destiny.
The Misery's Tree
Act like Morte
event1998 star_border 10
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After expelling some boys, Dona Miséria meets a beggar who claims to be sent from God. Her daily life is changed when death comes to take her to another world.
Bezerra de Menezes: O Diário de um Espírito
Act like Soares
event2008 star_border 5.4
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The film follows the life of the doctor Menezes (Carlos Vereza), known as the doctor of the poor.
São Jerônimo
Act like Jerônimo
event1999 star_border 6.2
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Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into Latin. Set both in the desert and in the posh confines of the Vatican, Jerome (Everaldo Pontes) agonizes over which Latin word would best fit its Hebrew counterpart. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
King Kong en Asunción
Act like Matador
event2020 star_border 7.2
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An old hired killer is hiding in the interior of Bolivia, in the desert region of the Salar de Uyuni. You just committed your last murder. After months in isolation, he travels to the interior of Paraguay where he receives a good reward and heads to Asunción with the aim of meeting his daughter.
Clarisse or Something About Us
Act like Samuel
event2015 star_border 5.1
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The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.
Salomé
event2024
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Cecília, a successful young model, returns to Recife, her hometown, to spend Christmas with her mother. One night, a neighbour she hadn’t seen for a long time, João, shows her a bottle with a mysterious and intoxicating green substance. Cecília begins to fall in love with João, but also discovers he is involved in a secret cult around the figure of Salomé, the luxurious biblical princess.
Central Station
Act like Dora's Client
event1998 star_border 8.1
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An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Deserto
Act like Draco
event2016 star_border 4.5
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A small group of artists travels the Brazilian backlands presenting a show. Upon arriving in a small village, they find an abandoned city with houses, a church, and a fountain spouting clean water, like a miracle of a biblical desert. Tired of and battered by their life as wanderers, the artists decide to settle in the village and start a new community, assigning themselves different roles from those they have played throughout their lives. This new arrangement, however, will reveal these artists the worst vices of the civilian life.
Comeback
Act like Davi
event2017 star_border 6.4
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Amador is a retired and ostracized gunman. Alone and bitter, he collects newspaper clippings of his old crimes in an album. After several humiliations, he will react with violence to the world’s hostility that surrounds him while also trying to get back to action.
Abaixo a Gravidade
Act like Bené
event2019 star_border 2
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Bené spent many years looking for his spiritual evolution in a small country town. He has made great progress and is fully integrated into the community, but will be put to the test when he meets Letícia and is brought into the underworld of the big city.
Por Trás do Céu
event2016 star_border 6.4
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In a place taken by poverty, Aparecida lives full of dreams and hope. While her husband leads a bitter life caused by a tragedy from the past, she decides to take an attitude that can change everything: to leave for the big city.
Mango Yellow
Act like Rabecão
event2002 star_border 6.6
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The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
The Devil's Knot
Act like Bacelar
event2018 star_border 6.3
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During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
Onde Borges Tudo Vê
event2013 star_border 1
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In Campina Grande, in Paraíba, a hamster named Borges lives with his owner, Napoleão (Everaldo Pontes). Blind, he is a fan of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges – origin of the name of the pet – and depends on acquaintances to survive. Yara (Verônica Cavalcanti), a girl who cleans the house, Romão (Fabiano Raposo), a boy who does little service, and Vladimir (Paulo Philippe) are his helpers and plan the robbery of a rare and unpublished work by Borges, which Napoleon says save.
Sol Alegria
Act like Mother Superior/Batman
event2018 star_border 5.7
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While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.
The Boat
event2018 star_border 6
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In an isolated fishing village, Esmerina is married to a fisherman and has 26 children. The oldest son secretly desires to leave to see the world beyond the sea. The daily routine of this family is suddenly altered when a mysterious boat runs aground on the beach entering Ana, a girl who survived the shipwreck.
Rapsódia para um Homem Comum
event2005
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Epaminondas is a low-income middle-class civil servant in the early 1970s. He is an ordinary man, a family man, whose day-to-day life is surrounded by bureaucratic commitments and can no longer stand the banal routine he is subjected to.
Cleopatra
event2007 star_border 5.3
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The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization.
Noites de alface
Act like Otto
event2021 star_border 6.8
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After the death of his wife, Otto starts having trouble to sleep without his natural medicine: a lettuce tea she made every night.
Death Inhabits at Night
Act like Gerente Autopeças
event2022 star_border 7
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Greasy hair; grooved and unshaven face; emanating alcohol fumes. Raúl just doesn't care anymore. In the opening scene of Death Inhabits at Night, the unemployed writer pours himself another glass of cheap wine as an upstairs neighbour leaps to his death. His girlfriend is clearly more upset by the incident. A little later, she finds a letter by the door reminding them to pay the rent or be evicted. Raúl shrugs and suggests going back to bed. But all of this dismissiveness changes following a meeting with a troubled young girl.
Ferrolho
Act like Seu Canário
event2012
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While a soccer team plays its games, events are experienced inside the houses. In other spaces, clay and the measure of a family's conflict.
Mansão do Amor
event2019
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Seeks new artists for a job interview.
Currais
event2019 star_border 7
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In the 1932 drought of Ceará, several concentration camps were created to imprison and prevent refugees from reaching the city of Fortaleza. Remnants narrate fragments of his memories and unfulfilled regrets, witnessed in the ruins of concentration camps and in the cult of the “souls of the dam”, resistant to the strong historical erasure.
Naticorda
event2020
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Sounds, nature and strings.
Batguano Returns: Roben on the Road
event2025
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Having spent years on the road trying to escape the ghosts of his past, Roben despairs when a disembodied presence invades his electronic devices: it is Batma, his former partner. As they discuss the possibilities of a relationship mediated by the cloud, Roben will have to confront his origins, which he has been despised for being just a supporting character - and discover if there is anything left beyond Batma's desire for domination.
O Homem Mau Dorme Bem
event2009
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In a petrol station near the road, three characters meet: Rita, the station's owner, that keeps searching for a love that she thought she once had; Wésley, a seller of pirate DVD's and CD's that, after thrown into underemployment, is trying to rebuilt his life; and Caburé, that haven't slept in years waiting to redeem a past of life and death. Gathered by an apparent coincidence, they weave their fate until they discover what is common in their stories.
World’s End
Act like Ranulfo (5 ep.)
event2016 star_border 5.5
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Vitória and her son, Cristiano come back to their hometown Desterro, running away from a troubled life in the city. She asks her brother Balbino for shelter. The arrival of mother and son brings the town’s secrets and forgotten stories back to light, in strange, mysterious ways. Cristiano’s journey of self-discovery through the town’s ghostly entrails sets him in a collision course with the most powerful man in town: his uncle.
Gabriela
Act like Tio Silva (77 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7.1
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Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule.
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