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  • Victor di Mello – Giselle (1980)

    1971-1980BrazilEroticaThrillerVictor di Mello

    It took four months to be released by the federal censorship. Over 14 million people have paid to watch this spectacular movie in theaters. This is the absolute record of grossing domestic film of all time. Sold for more than fifty countries. Giselle tells the saga of an urban family, whose moral and physical decay, it becomes uncontrollable. Giselle, a girl-woman-head 15 year old, farmer’s daughter, returning from a stint in Europe, rekindle the sexual clearance by his aunt niece. Exposes the undisguised delivering his young cousin to the fantasies of pleasure and ignites the fury of voluptuous farm foreman, so that nothing, absolutely nothing, can curb these desires and sinful unusual characters. Giselle, a girl who goes mad men and women, the film is more categorical the erotic genre. Must.Read More »

  • Joaquim Leitão – Tentação (1997)

    1991-2000DramaJoaquim LeitãoPortugalRomance

    Father Antonio is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father Anthony is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be sufficient to halt the worsening of the conflict. And when your fate intersects with Lena, the “black sheep” of the village, Father will also be forced to confront his own demons. Especially with those who never even thought that could exist.Read More »

  • Eduardo Coutinho – Moscou (2009)

    Eduardo Coutinho2001-2010BrazilDocumentary

    Plot: In Moscou, Eduardo Coutinho accompanies Grupo Galpão, directed by Enrique Diaz, in the rehearsals of the play “The Three Sisters”, from Chekhov. The film consists in fragments of workshops, improvisations and rehearsals of the play.Read More »

  • Sarah Maldoror – Sambizanga [Criterion 4K] (1972)

    1971-1980AngolaDramaPoliticsSarah MaldororThe Female Gaze

    This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows a young woman as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city’s center looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities—an incident that will ultimately help to ignite a national uprising. Featuring a cast of nonprofessionals—many of whom were themselves involved in anticolonial resistance—this landmark work of political cinema honors the essential roles of women, as well as the hardships they endure, in the global struggle for liberation.Read More »

  • Adriano Stuart – Bacalhau AKA Codfish (1975)

    1971-1980Adriano StuartBrazilComedyCult

    A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea.
    To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese oceanographer, a fearless fisherman and baits made with Amália Rodrigues’s records.Read More »

  • Anita Rocha da Silveira – Medusa (2021)

    2021-2030Anita Rocha da SilveiraBrazilFantasyHorror

    In order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.Read More »

  • José Mojica Marins – Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver AKA This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

    1961-1970BrazilCultHorrorJosé Mojica Marins

    Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices.Read More »

  • Eduardo Coutinho – Cabra Marcado Para Morrer AKA Twenty Years Later (1984)

    Documentary1981-1990BrazilEduardo CoutinhoPolitics

    Plot:
    In 1962, in the country city of Sapé, Paraíba, the peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira is executed by those affected by his attempt of organizing the explored men of the field. In 1964, the CPC of UNE (a group of the students) and the Movimento de Cultura Popular de Pernambuco decide to make a movie about the life and death of João Pedro. On 26 February 1964, begins the shootings in Engenho Galiléa, Pernambuco, with the wife of João Pedro, Elizabeth Teixeira, performing the role of herself. Thirty-five days later, on April 1st 1964 – the day of the military coup-d’état and beginning of the military dictatorship, the location is invaded by the Brazilian Army, searching for subversives and Cubans and arresting the local leaders and crew-members. Seventeen years later, director Eduardo Coutinho returns to the location, and interview the survivors, looking for the members of Teixeira’s family, shattered by the former regime.
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  • Eduardo Coutinho – Cabra Marcado Para Morrer AKA Twenty Years Later (1984)

    1981-1990BrazilDocumentaryEduardo CoutinhoPolitics

    Features two short documentaries Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2013 with characters from the 1984 film.

    50 years after the film fictional interrupted by the military coup in March 1964, and 30 years after the conclusion of the documentary, in March 1984, a meet with Elizabeth Teixeira and his sons and the peasants of Galilee.Read More »

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