Last updated March 27, 2024
Renowned artist Vik Muniz embarks on one of the most inspired collaborations of his career, joining creative forces with Brazilian garbage pickers who mine treasure from the trash heaps of Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho landfill.
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Tenente-Coronel Nascimento, a hardened vet of Rio de Janeiro's drug wars, is now head of a special police unit. With his new title comes new responsibilities and dangers, which the captain navigates with brashness and resolve.
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To achieve their shared dream of becoming ballet superstars, two young black dancers from the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, must overcome poverty, prejudice and incredible odds -- a journey captured in this inspiring documentary. Filmmaker Beadie Finzi chronicles the day-to-day struggles of these gifted performers as they challenge the notion that ballet is the province of the wealthy, white elite.
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Loosely based on a true story, this intriguing look at society's worship of celebrity follows Marcelo, a Brazilian con man who passes himself off as a pilot, a notorious bandit, a real-estate mogul and a glamorous celebrity before he gets found out.
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This compelling biopic of Noel Rosa -- known as the greatest Samba composer in Brazilian musical history -- follows his passionate and quirky rise to fame to his premature death at age 26.
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Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
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Director Walter Salles creates a modern, epic meditation on war and peace in a story set in Brazil and inspired by &NFi;Broken April&NFi_;, a novel by Ismaïl Kadaré about a long-standing blood feud between two rival clans. When his brother is killed, a reluctant hero decides revenge is the only answer. But he's also aware that the bloodshed will not end if he pursues violence. José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro and Rita Assemany star.
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In this action film based on a true story, Brazilian orphan Manuel Henrique Pereira becomes a master practitioner of capoeira -- a blend of martial arts and dance moves -- which he uses to combat the cruel conditions his people endure.
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When a teenaged girl finds out that her debonair father, Matias (Vincent Cassel), is a philanderer, she enters into a voyeuristic world while trying to figure out her own burgeoning sexuality. Camilla Belle co-stars as Matias's gorgeous mistress, Ângela, in this sensitive, coming-of-age drama set in the 1980s. Brazilian Heitor Dhalia writes and directs this film, which was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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In this in this coming-of-age drama, rogue Brazilian street kids are forced to join together to survive. Following a series of petty thefts and high-risk mansion robberies, the "boys only" gang learns about love when an orphan girl joins their group.
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Life in a quiet village rolls slowly from one day to the next with little excitement -- until a young photographer named Rita arrives. Intent on capturing the town on film, Rita forms a profound bond with Madalena, an elderly baker.
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Wide-eyed with the collective dream of turning their all-girl rap group into a viable enterprise, four Sao Paulo friends (Negra Li, Cindy Mendes, Leilah Moreno and Jacqueline Simão) embark on an all-or-nothing quest to succeed in a cutthroat industry.
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This fascinating, contemporary portrayal is that of the life and work of Tom Ze, one of the most controversial and talented Brazilian musicians. Featured are exclusive interviews with David Byrne, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso.
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Carlos Diegues helms this unusual international import, a fantasy-laden follow-up to his 1978 film Xica da Silva that tracks a small band of traveling performers as they make their way through the jungles of Brazil in an open-air caravan. The film's odd cast of characters includes a young accordion player and his pregnant wife (Fábio Júnior and Zaira Zambelli), a slinky dancer (Betty Faria) and a fire-breathing deaf-mute (Príncipe Nabor).
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A disparate group of upper-middle-class neighbors, including a lonely housewife and a proud grandfather, fear that their apartment building will be overrun by criminals and hire a private security firm, but the watchmen only heighten the problem.
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Gifted with incredible athletic talent, Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s. As his fame and fortune grew to new heights, his passion for a decadent life of women and nightclubs threatened his career.
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After graduating from medical school, Verônica begins her residency at a city hospital. But her heart isn't in it, and she plunges into an existential crisis that's exacerbated by an unfulfilling relationship and her father's worsening health.
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In this dark, twisted comedy that premiered at Sundance Film festival, the perfect "bottom" of a waitress and a nauseating toilet smell disrupt the life of a perverse and crazy pawnshop owner.
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Through the eyes of his 7-year-old sister, teenager Daniel grows up in a little world where his problems seem hopeless. Everything changes when he receives a letter from his father he never met that forces him to make his first adult decisions.
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From 1928 to 1934, millions of Japanese immigrated to Brazil. Set in a small rural settlement, this emotional documentary follows the paths of families who forged a mixed identity between memories of Japan and a new life in Brazil.
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This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese, Australians, French -- who are trapped in Brazilian jails.
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In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the not so good versus absolute evil.
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