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- DirectorPaulo César SaraceniStarsNey LatorracaLuiz LinharesMaurício do ValleLife and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and IndiansPortuguese Title: "Anchieta, José do Brasil".
Original Title: "Anchieta, José do Brasil"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 139 min. - DirectorWilson BarrosStarsZezé MottaAntônio FagundesMarco NaniniMany exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, the drag queen; Teddy, the hustler; Guto, the gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.Portuguese Title: "Anjos da Noite".
Original Title: "Anjos da Noite"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 98 min. - DirectorHugo CarvanaStarsMarília PêraHugo CarvanaPaulo César PeréioA group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, and night-people in general join forces to try to stop its demolition. Among its customers are actress Ana; her intellectual-type husband Zeca, in crisis about his work for TV; artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarreling only to be reconciled moments later.Portuguese Title: "Bar Esperança".
Original Title: "Bar Esperança"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 119 min. - DirectorBruno BarretoStarsTarcísio MeiraNey LatorracaLídia BrondiWhen a pedestrian is hit by a bus, simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the body in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, they accuse Arandir of homosexuality. Further, they say that the victim was his lover and Arandir killed him out of jealousy. Meanwhile, his father-in-law Aprígio who does not like him goes to the suburban village to tell his daughters, Arandir's beloved wife Selminha and her sister Dália, that Arandir is at the police station. The next morning, when the newspapers are distributed, Arandir is in the headline and later is humiliated in his work and in the village where his family lives. While Amado and Cunha manipulate the event and witnesses, common bigoted people believe that Arandir is gay and a killer, with tragic consequences.Portuguese Title: "O Beijo no Asfalto.
Original Title: "O Beijo no Asfalto"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 79 min. - DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsEduardo CoutinhoElizabeth TeixeiraFerreira GullarA filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.Portuguese Title: "Cabra Marcado Para Morrer".
Original Title: "Cabra Marcado Para Morrer"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 115 min. - DirectorEuripides RamosHélio BarrosoStarsDercy GonçalvesHumberto CatalanoManoel VieiraAlligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife.Portuguese Title: "Cala a Boca, Etelvina".
Original Title: "Cala a Boca, Etelvina"
Language: Portuguese.
Black & White, 86 min. - DirectorGlauber RochaStarsOdete LaraHugo CarvanaAntonio PitangaThis film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.Portuguese Title: "Câncer".
Original Title: "Câncer"
Language: Portuguese.
Black & White, 87 min. - DirectorCecília AmadoGuy GonçalvesStarsJean AmorimAna GracielaRoberio LimaAbout the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.Portuguese Title: "Capitães da Areia".
Original Title: "Capitães da Areia"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 98 min. - DirectorNelson HoineffStarsPaulo FrancisFernando Henrique CardosoWagner CarelliThe movie is about Paulo Francis biography.Portuguese Title: "Caro Francis".
Original Title: "Caro Francis"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 88 min. - DirectorLírio FerreiraHilton LacerdaStarsPaulo AutranChico BuarqueSérgio CabralDocumentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).Portuguese Title: "Cartola - Música Para os Olhos".
Original Title: "Cartola - Música Para os Olhos"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 88 min. - DirectorLuiz Sérgio PersonStarsAnselmo DuarteRaul CortezJuca de OliveiraThe innocent brothers are wrongly accused of a crime by a corrupt and violent police officers and are forced to face the injustices of the brazilian penal system.Portuguese Title: "O Caso dos Irmãos Naves".
Original Title: "O Caso dos Irmãos Naves"
Language: Portuguese.
Black and White, 92 min. - DirectorGeraldo SarnoStarsRubens de FalcoSura BerditchevskyNildo ParenteIn the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.Portuguese Title: "Coronel Delmiro Gouveia".
Original Title: "Coronel Delmiro Gouveia"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 92 min. - DirectorFrancisco Ramalho Jr.StarsBetty FariaMário GomesArmando BógusThis adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.Portuguese Title: "O Cortiço".
Original Title: "O Cortiço"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 109 min. - DirectorNeville de AlmeidaStarsSonia BragaNuno Leal MaiaJorge DóriaCarlos and Solange, childhood sweethearts, marry after a chaste courtship. On their wedding night, Solange refuses to make love to him. First he pleads, then in anger he rapes her. She says she adores him, but, even after months of marriage, can't endure his touch. To prove to herself she's not frigid, she begins a daily routine of seducing strangers on public busses; she also takes Carlos's best friend to a motel. Carlos figures out that she's unfaithful and, armed, confronts Solange. Meanwhile, she seeks psychiatric help because she feels no remorse. Will there be violence and death, a psychological breakthrough, or more bus rides?Portuguese Title: "A Dama do Lotação".
Original Title: "A Dama do Lotação"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 96 min. - DirectorRodolfo BrandãoTereza GonzalezStarsGuilherme FontesMalu MaderMarcos PalmeiraDuring his childhood and teenage years living with his anarchist and communist grandparents, he was known as Andre and he managed to survive the hard years of the military regime, finding comfort in the company of a drug addict street boy and one girl that comes to live with his family. With the loss of his grandparents, he becomes Dedé Mamata and a new reality full of perspectives comes on his way.Portuguese Title: "Dedé Mamata".
Original Title: "Dedé Mamata"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 97 min. - DirectorGiba Assis BrasilNelson NadottiStarsPedro SantosCeres VictoraDeborah LacerdaThe story of two young men (Marcelo and Ceres) who are best friends who live in Porto Alegre and they enjoy life, parties, the final days of 1979 and entering 1980 when they're about to grow and decide what they're gonna die with their lives when applying for college.Portuguese Title: "Deu Pra Ti Anos 70".
Original Title: "Deu Pra Ti Anos 70"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 107 min. - DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsFernando EirasPaulo JoséMariana XimenesA cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.Portuguese Title: "Dias de Niettzsche em Turim".
Original Title: "Dias de Nietzsche em Turim"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 84 min. - DirectorAna Luiza AzevedoJorge FurtadoStarsFernanda MontenegroMarco RiccaLouise CardosoThe story of Picucha, an 85-year-old suburban widow and mother of four who faces the reality of living alone in her age while keeping good humor and love for family and life.Portuguese Title: "Doce de Mãe".
Original Title: "Doce de Mãe"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 69 min. - DirectorWalter Lima Jr.StarsCarlos Alberto RiccelliCássia KisNey LatorracaA dolphin takes the form of a human man in order to seduce the women of a fishing village.Portuguese Title: "Ele, o Boto".
Original Title: "Ele, o Boto"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 106 min. - DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsGianfrancesco GuarnieriFernanda MontenegroCarlos Alberto RiccelliUnion leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.Portuguese Title: "Eles Não Usam Black-Tie".
Original Title: "Eles Não Usam Black-Tie"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 122 min. - DirectorWalter Hugo KhouriStarsLilian LemmertzDina SfatRenée de VielmondA man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.Portuguese Title: "Eros, o Deus do Amor".
Original Title: "Eros, o Deus do Amor"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 115 min. - DirectorRené SampaioStarsFabrício BoliveiraIsis ValverdeFelipe AbibJoão do Santo Cristo leaves his hometown and moves to Brasília in search of a better life. There, he encounters misery and crime, but also discovers love in the arms of Maria Lúcia.Portuguese Title: "Faroeste Caboclo".
Original Title: "Faroeste Caboclo"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 105 min. - DirectorUgo GiorgettiStarsAntonio AbujamraOtávio AugustoPedro Paulo CalvosoHired to entertain a party in a luxury home, in São Paulo, a musician, a snooker player, and an old decadent actor keep waiting downstairs, never being invited to the party upstairs to perform their acts.Portuguese Title: "Festa".
Original Title: "Festa"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 81 min. - DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsLima DuarteJofre SoaresCarmem SilvaMany stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.Portuguese Title: "Guerra Conjugal".
Original Title: "Guerra Conjugal"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 86 min. - DirectorJosé Henrique FonsecaStarsRodrigo SantoroAngie CepedaAlinne MoraesA biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas.Portuguese Title: "Heleno".
Original Title: "Heleno"
Language: Portuguese.
Black and White, 118 min. - DirectorCláudio TorresStarsWagner MouraAlinne MoraesMaria Luísa MendonçaZero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.Portuguese Title: "O Homem do Futuro".
Original Title: "O Homem do Futuro"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 105 min. - DirectorEduardo EscorelStarsLilian LemmertzRogério FróesIrene RavacheA German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get involved, and she teaches him love lessons instead.Portuguese Title: "Lição de Amor".
Original Title: "Lição de Amor"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 80 min. - DirectorLui FariasStarsBetty FariaReginaldo FariaMário GomesWhen her husband dies, Lili asks Guerreiro if she can join his gang of bank robbers. She soon gains notoriety in the press but is relentlessly pursued by an honest police officer.Portuguese Title: "Lili, a Estrela do Crime".
Original Title: "Lili, a Estrela do Crime"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 82 min. - DirectorAndré KlotzelStarsAdilson BarrosFernanda TorresDionísio AzevedoHillbilly has one single dream in life: eat beef. He finds a little maid who's anxious to marry, and promises him: in their wedding party, his father would kill an ox.Portuguese Title: "A Marvada Carne".
Original Title: "A Marvada Carne"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 75 min. - DirectorCristiana GrumbachDocumentary about old people living on a hill downtown Rio de Janeiro called "Morro da Conceição", one of the oldest parts of the city. They tell stories about their lives, the city and the country.Portuguese Title: "Morro da Conceição".
Original Title: "Morro da Conceição"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 87 min. - DirectorTabajara RuasBeto SouzaStarsWerner SchünemannLaura SchneiderSirmar AntunesThe story of a man that invented a country.Portuguese Title: "Netto Perde Sua Alma".
Original Title: "Netto Perde Sua Alma"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 102 min. - DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsPaulo AutranCarlos GregórioRicardo PetrágliaWith death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.Portuguese Title: "O País dos Tenentes".
Original Title: "O País dos Tenentes"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 82 min. - DirectorWalter CarvalhoLeonardo GudelStarsRoberto CarlosPaulo CoelhoDaniel de OliveiraThe film tells the story of Raul Seixas, a Brazilian rock legend. The documentary unveils by rare archival images, meeting with family, conversations with artists, producers and friends, the trajectory of the artist, who died in 1989.Portuguese Title: "Raul - O Início, o Fim e o Meio".
Original Title: "Raul - O Início, o Fim e o Meio"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 128 min. - DirectorGuel ArraesStarsAndrea BeltrãoJosé WilkerMarco NaniniDuring a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Peter and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.Portuguese Title: "Romance".
Original Title: "Romance"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 99 min. - DirectorIvan CardosoStarsAnselmo VasconcelosClarice PiovesanWilson GreyLaughed at when he announces the discovery of the elixir of life, scientist Professor Expedito Vitus devotes himself to the reconstitution of a map that has been divided into eight parts. The owners of these parts are being mysteriously murdered. Thanks to this map, he ends up making the most important archaeological discovery of the century: the tomb of Runamb, the Mummy, in the sands of Egypt. Back in Brasil, the professor brings the Mummy back to life, who was actually a dangerous psychopathic murderer obsessed with the image of Nadja, the dancer who had rejected him.Portuguese Title: "O Segredo da Múmia".
Original Title: "O Segredo da Múmia"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 82 min. - DirectorGeraldo VietriStarsElaine CristinaPaulo FigueiredoFlávio GalvãoA beautiful and poor woman buys herself a rich husband after inheriting a great deal of money.Portuguese Title: "Senhora".
Original Title: "Senhora"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 106 min. - DirectorVictor LopesSerra Pelada's discovery in 1979 precipitated one of the world's largest contemporary gold rushes. In a matter of days miners could make hundreds of thousands of dollars as chunks of gold kilos in weight were found.Portuguese Title: "Serra Pelada - A Lenda da Montanha de Ouro".
Original Title: "Serra Pelada - A Lenda da Montanha de Ouro"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 101 min. - DirectorJair CorreiaStarsJurandir AbreuCláudia AlencarElias AndreatoA group of young people are trapped inside a remote music venue with a psychotic killer after a concert. They must fight to survive the night in this Brazilian slasher movie with political overtones.Portuguese Title: "Shock - Diversão Diabólica".
Original Title: "Shock - Diversão Diabólica"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 78 min. - DirectorAntonio Carlos da FontouraStarsThiago MendonçaRenato RussoLaila ZaidThe life of Renato Manfredini Júnior, Brazilian musician, from his first involvement with music, to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico, to the formation of Legião Urbana, in the rock scene of 70's/80's Brasilia.Portuguese Title: "Somos Tão Jovens".
Original Title: "Somos Tão Jovens"
Language: Portuguese.
Color, 104 min. - DirectorWalter SallesDaniela ThomasStarsFernanda TorresFernando Alves PintoAlexandre BorgesAfter the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to his mother's native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.Portuguese Title: "Terra Estrangeira".
Original Title: "Terra Estrangeira"
Language: Portuguese.
Black & White, 100 min.