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In an arid, remote place, three people live monotonous lives: every day, while the woman feeds the animals and does the laundry, the man of the house and his field hand plow the land. But when an unexpected event breaks that routine, the oppression and cruelty will manifest unfettered.
Famous crime story writer puzzles police investigator when all the women he gets involved with get murdered.
Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director was forced to leave Brazil. Horror and humor to deal with the subject of insanity: “In the end everyone leaves the house as though they were laboratory mice escaping, they invade the city and contaminate the world”. “If we talk about horror, this film deals with national horror, with Mojica Marins as an emblem. There might be a few touches of Corman and English horror, but it is another level of horror. What transformed the film was the location where we were shooting, the house of a 19th century painter, a receptacle of light. When I arrived and saw that house, that light, I said: ‘This is the film. This is the horror’. The meaning of the film, its appeal, derives from this laboratory of light” (J. Bressane). — Torino Film Festival
Crime and crime-fighting in Rio de Janeiro. With the master of disguise, the great police inspector Jamil Warwar, playing himself in the film. Jamil became famous by solving the Caso Cláudia, denouncing the involvement of politics and famous personalities of Brazilian society with the international drug traffic. He was punished by his superiors, being transferred to an obscure small town of the hinterlands. The psychology, the methods and philosophy of a detective known as the Brazilian Baretta. A sort of popular Hamlet, a lone star lost in the very dangerous galaxy of the police of Rio de Janeiro.
Paula Sangria, a woman on the run after murdering her husband meets Agnes, a foreigner seeking disappearance and erotic annihilation, as they wander through a fictional winter city inhabited by grotesque figures, sexual repression and moral decay. While their relationship oscillates between desire, exploitation and violence, a disturbed sensationalist journalist obsessively stalks them, projecting his fetishes onto their bodies and crimes. What unfolds is a fragmented odyssey through a corrupt territory where intimacy becomes spectacle and survival itself turns obscene.
Faustão, a fruit seller, is selected by God himself to become Inspector Faustão, defender of the animals. He's joined by Sérgio Mallandro in a mission to save a group of quails from an illegal smuggler, while also having to deal with a bratty kid and a jealous girlfriend.
A 1976 crime film
Dona Sônia seeks revenge for the death of her only son.
Out of prison, notorious black-market currency trader Nelma Kodama exposes her part in a major Brazilian corruption scandal.
A detective lurks around a pond as she plots the destruction of the creatures behind the chaos.
A documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped in a daily war that knows no winners.
Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.
Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, a fact that leaves her heir to an incalculable fortune and coveted by all the aristocrats in the region.
The filming of a horror movie goes wrong when the film's killer, dressed as a dinosaur, decides to kill everyone on the film crew.
A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The identification would be through a cigarette case with an angel, and the password "- Is everything all right?" Meanwhile, the director Ricardo is preparing a show for the carnival in the hotel with Marina, and they love each other. The janitor Serafim receives a letter from his unknown American brother, who will come to Rio to spend the carnival and meet him, and asks Eliana for a chance in the show, since his brother believes he is an artist. When Ricardo finds the cigarette case lost by Anjo in the entrance of the hotel, he is misidentified by the thieves, and this is the beginning of lots of confusion and fun.
When Maria is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Detective Garcia becomes entangled in a case that challenges both his logic and his sanity. His partner, Fortunato, seems to know more than he is willing to reveal.
Julio is enchanted by a coffee shop attendant and confuses himself with a bad element. To get revenge, the thug kills his sister and kidnaps the waitress. Classic representative of the Ciclo do Recife.
A man with blood on his hands records a tape while awaits for his fate.
The most successful and famous bank robber in Chilean history. Now, convinced that he has been the victim of other people's mistakes, he decides to return to crime to take revenge for his fate.
A man has committed murder and gotten away with it. Still, when a friend pays an unexpected visit, the murderer notices some extra shades of red on the living room painting.
Valmir Salaro was the first reporter to report an allegation of abuse of 4-year-olds. The accused were innocent and the case became a national scandal. 28 years later, he is reunited with the accused.
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...
A stubborn prosecutor is tasked with putting a plastic surgeon in jail who confessed to killing and dismembering a former patient. What should be an easy case ends up becoming one of the most difficult and disturbing jobs of his career. More than presenting incontrovertible proof and evidence, she will have the challenge of making the jurors -and millions of Brazilians- forget the absurd thesis, constructed with the help of the media by a brilliant lawyer, that the defendant is not a cold-blooded killer and cruel, but a peaceful good man, driven crazy by the unhealthy pursuit of an ex-girlfriend.
In the Brazilian countryside, a family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch have their lives changed when a shady nurse offers a diabolical deal: put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin who urgently needs a place to hide.
Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.
A dental hygienist is seduced by a mysterious mermaid into the dark and wet underworld of Florida’s exotic animal trade.
Marcos finds Julia on a barren road and offers her shelter in a mansion belonging to his mistress. He discovers that she is running away from a psychotic husband and falls madly in love with her. When the caretaker of the mansion discovers a ransom is being offered to whoever finds the young woman, he tells her whereabouts to the husband, who ruthlessly pursues the pair.
Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective França.
João Amorim is a quiet country man, he lives with his wife and daughter in their country house. He could barely imagine what was about to happen.
A history of vendetta and redemption occurs in the vicinity of a road, when the trajectory of a young policeman from the Capital intersects with a sergeant.
The rebel group SUB v2.7 kidnaps the greatest politician in the state of Bahia and requests the footage,recorded by them, to be shown on the local news of his own TV channel.
Guilherme is tormented by the possibility of his fiancée being cheating on him. Desperate to end this mystery, he plans out a terrible way to finding the truth.
In a small elevator, a man and a woman prepare for a night out for two. And now? At night, anything can happen.
A Lebanese immigrant who has lived in São Paulo for many years is robbed and arrested in the trunk of his own car. In addition, a woman who witnessed the theft is also positioned there. The two complete strangers are forced to share this small, clueless environment where the thieves are headed.
After receiving a letter calling for a secret conspiracy meeting, a woman is mistaken for a controversial policy and kidnapped by a pair of revolutionaries with no money for Uber. The three end up living together and witnessing the end of the world, the alien invasion and military intervention together.
On Christmas Eve, a group of friends promote a particular party; among them a familiar face that will later unfold amid an outbreak of insanity, torture and death. The creator of the original toasts the audience with this raw prequel, with the intent to disturb the public in every way, in a spectacle of violence and mayhem.
This is a film about Christopher Kirk, an American IT guy who moves to Colombia after reading about Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses. It is also a film about the story of V., a story that Kirk obsessively tells and retells about his infatuation with a mysterious Japanese-columbian woman. A story that may or may not have to do with his arrest in 2009 in Brazil for international drug trafficking. Moreover, it is also a film about two directors.
In 2006, a group of three desperate misfits forms a strong emotional bond, especially increased when they decide to play a highly rewarding, but dangerous confidence game.
A college experimental short movie about two classmates that, after matching on a dating app, find out they both love true crime stories and decide to go on a date to watch documentaries. The problem is that they don't know each other's intentions.