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see all genres ›Brazilian cinema first attracted international attention with the "Cinema Novo" movement of the 1960s, heralding a new candor and realism. Candor and realism remain strong currents in the best of today's filmmaking there in their forceful favela dramas.
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Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog's most epically-scaled film was inspired by an actual historical incident of stranger-than-fiction curiosity. In the late 1800s Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald had an entire steamship laboriously transported over a mountain in order to open a trade passage from rubber-rich...Watch Movie
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Casa Grande
Coming-of-age as rude awakening: one high school senior's dawning sexuality is shadowed by the discovery of his upper-class family's looming financial ruin. Polished and penetrating, CASA GRANDE renders a sharp social canvas of contemporary Brazil through the eyes of young Jean, who struggles...Watch Movie
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Neighboring Sounds
One of the most acclaimed films of the year, NEIGHBORING SOUNDS is the thrilling debut from filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. On a quiet block in the coastal city of Recife, ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons, a recent spate of petty crime has rattled the nerves of the...Watch Movie
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Cobra Verde
Werner Herzog’s final collaboration with Klaus Kinski was, like FITZCARRALDO and AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD before it, a fact-inspired saga of exotic physical adventure whose production was nearly as arduous as the events depicted. Based on Bruce Chatwin’s novel "The Viceroy of Ouidah" (which was,...Watch Movie
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This is Bossa Nova
Paulo Thiago's acclaimed documentary THIS IS BOSSA NOVA tells the story of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian music born in the early-1950s that would attain definite international recognition a decade later with a memorable concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. This film includes...Watch Movie
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Paulista
In this steamy Brazilian drama, SпїЅo Paulo is a hotbed for intrigue amongst the young, restless and alive. A freespirited actress who leaves her devoted provincial boyfriend behind to make it in the big city, Marina (Sylvia Laurenco) dives into the big city's nightlife-driven energy. She finds...Watch Movie
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Romeo and Juliet Get Married
From international auteur Bruno Barreto comes this hilarious retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Ophthalmologist Romeo and his family are passionately obsessed fans of the Corinthians football team. While across town, the lovely Juliet’s father is an equally rabid...Watch Movie
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True Beauty
Joao is a decadent photographer, looking for a new model to restart his career. He goes to the South of Brazil, where he shoots hundreds of teens, until he gets captivated by the beauty of Maria, who he wants to make a top model. However her father, Pedro, doesn't allow her to follow the career....Watch Movie
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Hard Labor
A middle-class couple slowly succumbs to the allures of entrepreneurship and the horrors of a schizophrenic job market. As Helena starts a new business venture (a small grocery store), her white-collar husband Otavio is let go from his job. Determined to stay afloat, Otavio goes on a series of...Watch Movie
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Xingu
This gripping historical drama tells the inspiring true story of the three Villas Boas brothers, Orlando, Claudio, and Leonardo, and their mission to protect the indigenous Amazon natives. Seeking adventure, the brothers join the "March to the West" expedition to explore the Amazon rainforest....Watch Movie
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Chantal Akerman, From Here
In CHANTAL AKERMAN, FROM HERE, the renowned Belgian filmmaker sits down for an hour-long conversation about her entire body of work. Throughout, the camera holds steady from outside an open door. The long, unbroken shot, and the frame-within-a-frame pay homage to Akerman's own...Watch Movie
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Rânia
Sixteen-year-old Rania studies dance and lives with her mother and two brothers in restricted circumstances. With her father, a fisherman, also facing hard times, Rania contemplates following her friend Lizi and becoming a dancer in a grotty nightclub. A wonderful opportunity then presents itself...Watch Movie
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The Human Surge
One of the year's most bracingly original debuts, Eduardo Williams' THE HUMAN SURGE is a global journey that jumps without warning from Argentina to the Philippines to Mozambique; a road movie that fuses fiction and documentary for a portrait of today's youth at a time of economic uncertainty and...Watch Movie
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Mango Yellow
Guaranteed to shock even jaded viewers, Claudio Assis' debut feature is seeped in bold, sun drenched colors (a mood that extends to the oversized subtitles as well). It is a provocative tale of low-rent losers set in the coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Assis' characters seemingly stem from some...Watch Movie
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Boy 23
Investigating a period that Brazil is now trying to forget, this documentary reveals that, going much beyond theoretical support, Brazil was once the stage for eugenic experiments that scarred their victims forever. This documentary explores how a racially mixed nation absorbed eugenic ideas to...Watch Movie
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Give Us Our Daily Water
2015 has seen the driest winter in eighty-four years in southeastern Brazil. Water shortages became extremely critical in São Paulo, home to twenty million people. At the end of winter, officials were estimating São Paolo's reserves would last a mere ninety days without...Watch Movie
