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7.6
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75
/29/
4.0
/4807/

The Guns (1964)
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
poster
75
40
7.6
/599/
73
/33/
71
/33/
4.0
/6155/

The Deceased (1965)
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
poster
70
33
7.0
/418/
71
/20/
61
/23/
4.0
/3249/

Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber (1977)
This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.
poster
73
26
7.1
/137/
76
/13/
71
/9/
4.0
/2279/

Garden of War (1969)
Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.
poster
61
25
5.5
/410/
69
/32/
51
/17/
3.6
/1761/

Rio Babilonia (1982)
A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
24
7.0
/265/
60
/7/
66
/7/
3.6
/255/
88
/114/

My Home Is Copacabana (1965)
Arne Sucksdorff’s drama follows four homeless children—Jorginho, Rico, Lici, and Paulinho—struggling to survive in the Rio de Janeiro slums. They shine shoes, scavenge food, and pickpocket while dreaming of escape from the streets. When Rico, once escaped from a brutal institution in Caxambu, falls ill, he chooses to return there rather than die outside. A somber portrait of poverty and resilience, the film was selected for the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
poster
70
21
6.6
/106/
79
/12/
66
/5/
3.6
/3186/

The Lady from Estacio (2012)
Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estacio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she needs is a good coffin. A tribute to Leon Hirszman's "The Deceased", the first film starred by Fernanda Montenegro.
poster
70
20
7.0
/172/
60
/6/
77
/10/
3.7
/1342/

The Dare (1965)
Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son.
poster
73
17
7.0
/186/
68
/6/
78
/9/
3.6
/1157/
Popcorn
80
/4/

Five Times Favela (1962)
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
poster
63
14
7.0
/202/
51
/5/
59
/6/
3.7
/972/

The Big City (1966)
In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.
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70
11
7.5
/75/
60
/4/
75
/10/
3.6
/411/

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967)
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
poster
51
11
5.2
/336/
44
/13/
42
/15/
3.4
/479/

The Secret of the Mummy (1982)
A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.
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54
10
6.0
/333/
61
/8/
50
/17/
3.2
/407/
36
/2/

The Naked Man (1997)
Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
poster
69
9
7.3
/72/
67
/8/
66
/5/
3.6
/504/

Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring (1967)
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 the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.
poster
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6.5
/17/
10
/1/

Sonhei com Você (1988)
Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
poster
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8.5
/9/

Exu-Piá, Coração de Macunaíma (1986)
The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently living: one is running away from the deforestation in the Amazon while the other got tired of living in heaven and wants to return to his land.
poster
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6.4
/24/
10
/1/

The Beggars (1963)
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place.
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5.9
/26/
10
/1/
55
/4/

A Man and His Cage (1974)
The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now wants to sever. Weak at this impossible love, he asks the maid Enedina to lock him in his room. There, he revives memories through letters, notes and photographs. Selma's son João is waiting for her at the airport and dreams of loving fulfillment in his own mother's arms.
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10
/1/

Brasília - A Última Utopia (1993)
Six episodes set in and focusing on the history of Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Episode list: A Paisagem Natural (dir. Vladimir Carvalho), O Sinal da Cruz (dir. Pedro Jorge de Castro), A Volta de Chico Candango (dir. Roberto Pires), Além do Cinema do Além (dir. Pedro Anísio), Suíte Brasília (dir. Moacir de Oliveira) and A Capital dos Brasis (dir. Geraldo Moraes).
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6.0
/8/
10
/1/
100
/1/

Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática (1984)
A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.
poster
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6.1
/23/
10
/1/

Insônia (1982)
A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.
poster
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20
/1/

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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5.4
/14/
80
/1/

Feminino Plural (1976)
"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed. " (HBH / QC)
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7.1
/52/
30
/2/
55
/2/

Sagarana: O Duelo (1974)
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.
poster
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8.2
/49/
70
/7/
70
/5/

Images of the Unconscious (1987)
In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952. It gathered paintings and drawings made by mental patients from all over Brazil. Many of the works in the museum are paired with the case-histories of the patients who created them in this fascinating film.
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5.9
/67/
45
/4/
18
/3/

Vampire Eyes (1996)
A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.
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57
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6.8
/145/
25
/2/
68
/6/
3.4
/237/

Kiss 2348/72 (1990)
Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.
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6.7
/54/
52
/4/
52
/4/

Aperana Street 52 (2012)
In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,
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6.9
/26/
10
/1/

Tatu Bola (1971)
Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.
poster
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7.5
/36/
70
/1/
100
/1/

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos (2019)
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
poster
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10
/1/

Sant'Anna dos Pescadores (1993)
N/A
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6.5
/20/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Soul's Boundary (1988)
The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.
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20
/4/
80
/1/

Plano B (2014)
N/A
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5.2
/18/
10
/1/

L'inchiesta (1971)
The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric clinic. Not a simple Italian thriller but a "Russian doll", an open story with different levels of reading and interpretation, in which the distance between the madness of authenticity of feelings and the sprawling social normality that leads to 'annulment of the person and loneliness. Collaborators on the subject and the script of the film are Bernardo Bertolucci and Enzo Carra.
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6.0
/39/
50
/1/

Jardim de Alah (1989)
An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of squares on the middle of neighborhoods Ipanema and Leblon. There, people of different social classes interact together - workers who live in the Cruzada de São Sebastião building and the local bourgeois class who live in fancy condos. There, the rich and the poor unite in the same spirit.
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50
/3/
100
/2/

Pedreira de São Diogo (1962)
Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The slope is blown up, advancing to the land near the shacks. Slum dwellers are warned that new explosions can cause damage. The community decides to place itself on the slope, preventing another explosion; without attitude, the foreman gives up on blowing up the hill.
poster
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3.9
/21/
50
/1/
30
/2/

Virgin on the Hill (1977)
Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her face gets disfigured, forcing her to wear a mask.
poster
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5.6
/19/
35
/2/
50
/4/

Ovelha Negra, Uma Despedida de Solteiro (1974)
João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.
poster
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6.6
/27/
60
/1/

Stop 88 (1978)
Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way of life that can guarantee their survival, since oxygen, which has become a good consumption, used needs to be reused so as not to generate more expenses. One day, Joaquim wins a lottery that gives him enough money to pay for his and his family's oxygen; but to claim the prize, he'll need to go to the ruins of the factory to collect news from a group of contamination experts adventurers posted there.
poster
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7.3
/9/
10
/1/

Crônica À Beira do Rio (1980)
Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums, where life changes very quickly in the short space of time.
poster
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6.7
/50/

Batalha dos Guararapes (1978)
In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer, João Fernandes Vieira, sees himself in the middle of a conflict, torn between joining his friend Mauricio de Nassau alongside the ruling Dutch and siding with his lover Ana Paes in the fight to free his homeland.
poster
48
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5.6
/181/
40
/8/
51
/4/

Luz del Fuego (1982)
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
poster
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6.7
/72/
40
/1/
65
/8/

Anchieta, José do Brasil (1977)
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
poster
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5.2
/35/
10
/1/
38
/4/

Corações a Mil (1983)
University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and performances, while ultimately falling in love with one of his groupies.
poster
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7.4
/24/
10
/1/

Tropico (1969)
A family of Brazilian farmers is desperately looking for work and moves from city to city.
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74
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7.0
/60/
80
/2/
78
/6/
3.5
/249/

The Agony (1976)
Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of the lipstick, she catches his attention. He gives her a ride, the two of them stare in silence for a few moments. They introduce themselves to one another and between the two establishes an absurd dialogue and full of metaphors. And they are driving around in corners of Rio de Janeiro, to the sound of Noel Rosa and Lamartine Babo. Eva and Antena, she a seer, he, an assassin on the run, initiate an unusual case of love, a marginal love, where boredom often gives way to tragedy, creating the agony of a holiday spent in an abyss.
poster
71
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7.1
/104/
50
/4/
90
/3/
3.7
/415/

Journey to the End of the World (1968)
During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.
poster
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6.8
/44/
40
/2/

Memories of Helen (1969)
Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal friend, has an important role.


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