This film combines fictional and documentary treatment and uses photographic archives, real images and the oral testimony of women from the regions of Trás-os-Montes, Beira, Alto and Baixo Minho who, between the 1940s and 1980s, came to Porto to work as domestic servants.
This film combines fictional and documentary treatment and uses photographic archives, real images and the oral testimony of women from the regions of Trás-os-Montes, Beira, Alto and Baixo Minho who, between the 1940s and 1980s, came to Porto to work as domestic servants.
A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amidst conflicts with her neighbors, she decides to film the movement of drug traffickers from her window, hoping to assist the police. After months of recording suspicious activities, her initiative attracts the attention of a journalist, who approaches Nina and offers to support her in her mission.
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.
ในปี 1971 ระบอบเผด็จการทหารในบราซิลถึงขีดสุด ครอบครัว Paiva ประกอบด้วย Rubens, Eunice และลูกๆ ทั้งห้าคน อาศัยอยู่ในบ้านริมชายหาดในริโอที่เปิดให้เพื่อนๆ ทุกคนเข้าได้ วันหนึ่ง Rubens ถูกพาตัวไปสอบปากคำและไม่ได้กลับมาอีกเลย
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.
มิลลี่ หญิงสาวที่กำลังตกที่นั่งลำบาก ได้สัมผัสความรู้สึกโล่งใจเสียที เมื่อเธอได้รับโอกาสเริ่มต้นใหม่ในฐานะแม่บ้านของ นีน่า และ แอนดรูว์ คู่สามีภรรยาผู้มั่งคั่งและมีฐานะดี อย่างไรก็ตาม ไม่นานเธอก็พบว่าความลับของครอบครัวนี้อันตรายยิ่งกว่าสิ่งที่เธอได้ปกปิดเอาไว้เสียอีก
ในผลงานกำกับภาพยนตร์ขนาดยาวเรื่องแรก มาริสกา ฮาร์กิเทย์พาผู้ชมย้อนรอยเรื่องราวของแม่ของเธอเป็นครั้งแรก เจน แมนส์ฟีลด์ ตำนานฮอลลีวู้ดผู้จากไปอย่างน่าเศร้าเมื่อเกือบหกทศวรรษก่อน การค้นหาครั้งนี้คือการตามหา “แม่” ที่เธอไม่เคยได้รู้จัก