The events of several travelers who stop at a sinister hostel one stormy night.Read More »
Brazil
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Marcelo Motta & José Mojica Marins – A Estranha Hospedaria dos Prazeres AKA The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976)
1971-1980BrazilExploitationHorrorJosé Mojica MarinsMarcelo Motta -
Júlio Bressane – Cara a Cara (1967)
1961-1970BrazilDramaJúlio BressaneQuote:
A man, sort of penpusher living in the darkness of books or in a ruined house with his dying mother, watches out for of a radiant, rich young girl. Her father meanwhile seems to organize some political trick with accomplices.Read More » -
Eryk Rocha – Transeunte AKA Passerby (2010)
2001-2010ArthouseBrazilDramaEryk RochaStory of Expedito, a retired man who walks through or passes by the streets of Río de Janeiro, Brazil. His reality is shared among millions of Brazilians that gain an invisibility status in the metropolis. Expedito turned into an anonymous, witness of the random conflicts that happens everyday at the streets.Read More »
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Carlos Diegues – Quilombo (1984)
1981-1990BrazilCarlos DieguesDramaSynopsis:
Palmares was a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in the mountains of northeast Brazil. The story follows a group of plantation slaves, among them Abiola (Tony Tornado), who revolt in 1650 during the Dutch-Portuguese War (1601-1661) and escape to the mountains and the city of Palmares, where they join other former slaves who have already been living there peacefully and autonomously. On arrival, Abiola suggests that Palmares trade with a friendly squatter. Read More » -
Carlos Diegues – Tieta do Agreste AKA Tieta of Agreste (1996)
1991-2000BrazilCarlos DieguesComedyDramaQuote:
Just when her family starts believing that she is dead, and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from São Paulo to her native village in Bahia, which she had been forced to leave long ago because of some involvement with a goat herd. Believed to be fabulously rich – and nobody knows how – she brings to the great disappointment of her family a young step-daughter and heir. With the arrival of Tieta turmoil enters into the life of her family and their fellow villagers. Most particularly into the life of her nephew – promised to the Church – and the young aspiring mayor.Read More » -
Júlio Bressane – Filme de Amor (2003)
2001-2010ArthouseBrazilEroticaJúlio BressaneThe pleasure, where it does not end
Love is also time suspended by the word, the language – Portuguese in this case – which invites itself into the body, which hypnotizes them and returns them to a happy flesh. All of Bressane’s staging can be found there, all of this surprising and obvious invention, that is to say alive. In its rhythm, in its editing, in its ruptures, its winks and even its obscurities which we know all come out of the same passion …
A triangle – three beings – suspended in desire, a desire that hangs on all their gestures.Read More » -
Júlio Bressane & Eduardo Escorel – Bethânia Bem de Perto – A Propósito de um Show (1966)
1961-1970BrazilDocumentaryEduardo EscorelJúlio BressaneShort FilmDocumentary about Brazilian pop diva Maria Bethânia, in one of her first shows in Rio de Janeiro. The film also show scenes of her daily life and meetings with other musicians.Read More »
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Paulo César Saraceni – O Desafio AKA The Dare (1966)
1961-1970ArthouseBrazilPaulo César SaraceniPoliticsPassively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist’s wife, who doesn’t want to leave her home because of her son.Read More »
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Bruno Barreto – Bossa Nova (2000)
1991-2000BrazilBruno BarretoComedyRomanceRio lawyer Pedro Paulo is recently separated from his travel agent wife Tania. His office has taken on an energetic new intern, Sharon. Pedro Paulo is working on a divorce case – his own father’s… Mary Ann is an English language teacher living in Rio. Her friend Nadine has been having an Internet romance with Gary, a SoHo artist. Nadine decides to visit Gary in New York; she books her flight through Tania… Soccer star Acacio is going to play for a team in England. He has been taking private lessons with Mary Ann. Is he reading too much into the word “private”? Pedro Paulo catches a glimpse of Mary Ann and decides he should study English again… Acacio needs some legal help with his new contract. He goes to Pedro Paulo’s office, but the only one in is Sharon.Read More »