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O Menino da Porteira

Anos 50. No vilarejo de Rio Bonito o peão Diogo (Daniel) conduz uma grande boiada até a Fazenda Ouro Fino. Ao passar pelo sítio Remanso ele conhece Rodrigo (João Pedro Carvalho), um garoto que sonha em se tornar um boiadeiro. Logo eles se tornam amigos, sendo também testemunhas das injustiças que ocorrem na região devido à ganância do major Batista (José de Abreu), dono da Fazenda Ouro Fino. O major ordena que seus capangas chantageiem os moradores locais, de forma que vendam o gado pelo ...

2009 Drama 95 min Play

7.1

Greta

Pedro, a 70-year-old homosexual nurse, fervent fan of Greta Garbo, decides to help Jean, a young man who has just been hospitalized and handcuffed for committing a crime. He hides him in his own house until he recovers and in this period, they engage affectively and sexually. This relationship will be essential for Pedro, but it also causes startling changes in himself and in the way he deals with loneliness.

7.1

2019 Drama 97 min Play

Cabeça a Prêmio

The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself ...

2010 Drama 0 min Play

The Territories

After the attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, Ivan, the frivolous son of a prominent Argentine journalist, embarks on a journey pursuing different geopolitical events around the world.

2018 Drama 101 min Play

The Traitor

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

2019 Documentary 121 min Play

2019 Crime 151 min Play

5.3

Seduction of the Flesh

A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she’s always observed by a large portion of raw meat.

5.3

2018 Drama 67 min Play

7.9

The Edge of Democracy

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

7.9

Landfill

Landfill is a documentary that emerged from the perception of a paradox in relation to litter. While most people want to get rid of it, I met some ladies, pioneers of recycling, that they miss the trash from others in side of the house. From the time where I met up making the film, many things happened, both in the media, with all the newly fallacious discourse of sustainability, and in my personal relationship with the trash, when I became the 'householder. ' This is a film of these seven ...

2011 Documentary 72 min Play

Sentimental Education

Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by chance – one of these encounters which mythology and literature are full of. A delicate soul who finds itself attracted to a beauty that seems to demand, disturb and move her. That shakes her up entirely. During the days following their first conversation, she will expose all her feelings through classes in which he will let himself be carried away. Until ...

2013 Drama 84 min Play

Artificial Paradises

Artificial Paradises tells the story of Nando and Erika, two young people in their twenties who meet several times without noticing. It tells the story of the subculture of electronic music and rave parties and drugs like MDMA.

2012 Drama 99 min Play

Black Orpheus

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

1959 Drama 100 min Play

7.5

Califórnia

The year is 1984. Estela is going through the turbulent phase of adolescence. Sex, lovers, friendships; everything seems very complicated. Her uncle Carlos is her hero, and visiting him in California is her biggest dream. But everything collapses when he returns thin, weak and ill. Between crises and discoveries, Estela will face a reality that will forever change her way of seeing the world.

7.5

2015 Drama 90 min Play

6.9

We’re So Young

The life of Renato Russo, from his first involvement with music, to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico, to the formation of Legião Urbana, in the Brasília rock scene of 1970s and 1980s.

6.9

2013 Drama 104 min Play

That Pair of Arms!

A subtle adaptation of a classical story of the most greatest Brazilian writer: Machado de Assis. The history is passed in the Rio de Janeiro in full century XIX. The adolescent Inácio lives in Borges house and works like an apprentice. His routine of boredom and alone loneliness is broken in moments that sees the naked arms of the wife's boss. Upon perceiving that is desired by him, passes treat-him with affection. A silent romance and prohibited is told with romance and poetry.

2009 Drama 45 min Play

Macunaíma

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.

1969 Comedy 110 min Play

S.O.S.: Women to the Sea

Recently divorced Adriana tries to get revenge on the woman who took her husband away from her by going on a European cruze along with them.

2014 Comedy 94 min Play

5.7

Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary

A group of three youtubers who call themselves experts in supernatural beings decide to win public recognition once and for all. For this they plot a plan to capture a being known to all. It is the spirit of a light-haired woman who died in an unknown way and who haunts the bathrooms of schools across the country: the blonde in the bathroom.

5.7

2018 Comedy 103 min Play

Rio Sex Comedy

A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.

2010 Comedy 124 min Play

Coffee with Cinnamon

Five friends drink beer and chat at Violeta's house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest times of their lives.

2018 Drama 102 min Play

Violeta Went to Heaven

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.