Movie director visits a set on a studio about to be closed. For his next film, he wants his faithful favorite actress, but she is now tempted by a profitable TV deal.Read More »
Walter Hugo Khouri
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Walter Hugo Khouri – Paixão e Sombras (1977)
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Walter Hugo Khouri – O Desejo (1975)
1971-1980BrazilDramaWalter Hugo Khouri
O Desejo (1975) Widowed eleven months ago, Eleonora, a 33-year-old woman from the Sao Paulo state bourgeoisie, lives alone, unsuited to her husband’s absence, an intellectual frustrated and torn between the need for transcendence and a strong sexual compulsion. The couple’s life, although not happy, was intense. However, the presence of Ana Maria, a recent arrival from Paris, a middle-class university student, is staying at her house. The two go to the site of Eleonora and this one remembers its life with Marcelo and the death of this one by drowning. Ana has the same existential preoccupations and existential obsessions of Marcelo, and Eleonora identifies in her an extension of the husband. Feeling attraction and at the same time jealous of Ana, she does nothing to save her when they both swim in the dam and Ana suffers a fit of cramp.Read More »
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Walter Hugo Khouri – Eu AKA I (1987)
Walter Hugo Khouri1981-1990BrazilDrama
Powerful and insatiable millionaire hides in his own private island for the weekend, in search of answers for his feeling of personal dissatisfaction. But he is not alone on the beautiful beach: he’s surrounded by the women he cares for, especially his daughter, for whom he nurtures an almost incestuous desire.Read More »
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Walter Hugo Khouri – Noite Vazia AKA Eros [+Extras] (1964)
Walter Hugo Khouri1961-1970ArthouseBrazilDrama
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Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.Read More » -
Walter Hugo Khouri – Amor Estranho Amor AKA Love Strange Love (1982)
1981-1990BrazilDramaEroticaWalter Hugo Khouri
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.Read More »
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Walter Hugo Khouri – As Filhas do Fogo (1978)
1971-1980ArthouseBrazilHorrorWalter Hugo Khouri
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Woman living in São Paulo goes to Gramado, South of Brazil, to visit a friend of hers. Together, they meet an odd woman who engages in strange experiences in parapsychology. From then on, bizarre events are bound to happen.Read More » -
Walter Hugo Khouri – O Corpo Ardente aka The Burning Body (1966)
1961-1970ArthouseBrazilDramaWalter Hugo Khouri
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Márcia is a married woman with a son. She finds that her husband has an affair. She cheats him too and decides to go to Itaipava with her son. A black horse, free in the fields, attracts her. In the end, she comes back home and memories come back while watching the footage made by her son.Read More »
