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Portuguese-Language Films

Name: Portuguese-Language Films
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Top 500 Portuguese-language films from a catalog of 1,350, ranked by TMDB rating.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Country↕	Overview↕
Vanessa da Mata: Caixinha de Música Ao Vivo	2,017	Bruno Murtinho	Music	9.8	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Vanessa da Mata presents her newest project "Caixinha de Música". Recorded at the Teatro Natura in São Pualo, the project is the second DVD of her career and brings a new musical concept for the singer, in which she brings interference from electronic music incorporating the organic sound of a trio of musicians.
Enaldinho and the Mystery of the Lagoon	2,023	Fábio Brasil	Adventure, Family	9.6	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Enaldinho and his gang go out to have fun in a paradisiacal park. The class takes advantage of everything the place has to offer until strange things start to happen. Some people mysteriously disappear during the night and, when they reappear, they are different. They seem to be totally out of vital energy! Enaldinho leaves to try to find out who or what is doing this... He then discovers that the victims are being taken to a mysterious cave and there has their energy drained, turning everyone into Zombies... Who is behind all this is "Zap", a frightening alien who needs people's energy to be the fuel of a destructive weapon that can enslave the entire planet. Enaldinho and his friends need to prevent "Zap" from realizing his plan and saving the world from this dark force.
Sandy & Junior: Nossa História	2,020	Douglas Aguillar	Music, Documentary	9.5	10	Portuguese	Brazil	"Nossa História" was the ninth tour of the Brazilian duo Sandy & Junior, held between July and November 2019. The tour marks the reunion of the duo twelve years after their last shows in 2007. The show, recorded in São Paulo, was first released exclusively for Globoplay, and later made available on DVD.
Luccas Neto em: Acampamento de Férias 3	2,021	Lucas Margutti	Comedy, Family, Adventure	9.1	24	Portuguese	Brazil	Luccas and Gi are separated for the first time in a competition at the camp. The girls and boys face off in a Talent Show for a spot in a real pop band. The trolling begins! Who's gonna do it best?
Películas	2,020	Tiago Resende	Documentary	9.1	10	Portuguese	Unknown	Películas is the name of a poetry book by Luís Miguel Nava, a homosexual poet, born in Viseu, who died in Brussels and whose magnificent poetic work remains widely unknown. Drawn from the filmmaker’s family super8 film archive, and excerpts from the film Un chant d'amour, by Jean Genet, the film builds a “body” marked by memories, by various skins, by Nava's films, by his poems and by its landscapes.
Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete no Maracanã	2,007	Joana Mazzucchelli	Music, TV Movie	9	11	Portuguese	Brazil	This Ivete Sangalo concert at Rio de Janeiro's legendary Maracanã Stadium, and the subsequent DVD/CD releases, constituted the year's main event in Brazilian pop music. Sangalo rose to fame with the axé band Banda Eva, and since 1999 has embarked on an unstoppable solo career, making her the undisputed queen of pop in Brazil in terms of sales and popularity, as well as gathering countless industry and society awards. Accordingly, Sangalo put on a show at the Maracanã that should leave no one envious of the megaconcerts offered in Rio by Madonna, Michael Jackson, and the Rolling Stones. Alternating some of her many hits with new songs or new versions of old material, Sangalo burns through the set with her characteristic enthusiasm and infectious star magnetism, incessantly cheered on by an adoring audience of 55,000. The album has sold over 800,000 copies in Brazil (being certified Diamond), and features the single "Deixo". Recorded on December 16, 2006.
Absolute Majority	1,964	Leon Hirszman	Documentary	9	10	Portuguese	Brazil	The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing, they are aware of their condition and qualified to proposing solutions they hope for to their problems.
Luccas Neto em: Acampamento de Férias 2	2,020	Lucas Margutti	Comedy	8.9	30	Portuguese	Brazil
Luccas Neto in: The Magical Hotel	2,020	Lucas Margutti	Comedy, Family	8.9	21	Portuguese	Brazil	When Luccas and Gi stay at a luxury hotel for the launch of their toy line, naughty elves from the North Pole try to ruin their plans.
Luccas Neto em: O Mapa do Tesouro	2,020	Lucas Margutti	Comedy, Adventure	8.7	20	Portuguese	Brazil	When a greedy villain sets his eyes on Grandma's farm, it is up to Luccas and Gi to set things right as they embark on a secret treasure hunt.
Sweet Mother	2,012	Jorge Furtado	Comedy, Drama, Family, TV Movie	8.7	17	Portuguese	Brazil	Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday	2,020	Fred Ouro Preto	Documentary, Music	8.6	56	Portuguese	Brazil	Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.
The Courtyard of the Ballads	1,942	Francisco Ribeiro	Music, Comedy, Family	8.6	42	Portuguese	Portugal	A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
A Song of Lisbon	1,933	José Cottinelli Telmo	Music, Comedy	8.6	41	Portuguese	Portugal	Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.
Here We Are Waiting for You	1,999	Marcelo Masagão	Documentary	8.6	29	Portuguese	Brazil	A fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.
Sovereign: Six Times São Paulo	2,010	Carlos Nader	Documentary	8.6	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Tells the stories of six national soccer titles won by São Paulo Futebol Clube, from the point of view of the fans.
Divaldo Franco	2,019	Clovis Mello	Drama	8.5	127	Portuguese	Brazil	Born in the small town of Feira de Santana, in the interior of Bahia, Divaldo has lived with mediumship since he was 4 years old. Disturbed by what he sees, rejected by other children and repressed by his father, the boy does not have an easy childhood. At 17, he is convinced that it is useless to try to deny his gift. With the support of his mother, he comes into contact with Spiritism and moves to Salvador to study the doctrine. Under the guidance of his spiritual guide, Joanna de Ângelis, the young man overcomes the homesickness and the loneliness of the big city and embraces his mission. A few years later, that strange boy from Feira de Santana becomes one of the most important mediums of all time and gives up his personal life to dedicate himself to charity.
Jorel's Brother Christmas Special: Santa's Brother	2,022	Zé Brandão	Animation, Comedy	8.5	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Jorel's family prepares for Christmas Eve with a big dinner, flashing lights, plates, cutlery and cups, only used on very special occasions. The china cabinet is finally opened.
Capitu and the Chapter	2,023	Júlio Bressane	Drama, Romance	8.5	10	Portuguese	Brazil	“If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?” Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of the memories we see one Dom Casmurro commit to paper with a flamboyant pen seems to be an interplay of conflicting emotions – particularly when jealousy raises its head. Adapted from the Brazilian classic novel 'Dom Casmurro' (1899) by Machado de Assis as an ironic/philosophical essay on poetry and jealousy, and featuring fragments of Bressane’s previous works.
City of God	2,002	Fernando Meirelles	Drama, Crime	8.4	8,014	Portuguese	Brazil	In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
A Dog's Will	2,000	Guel Arraes	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance	8.4	1,203	Portuguese	Brazil	The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
Twenty Years Later	1,984	Eduardo Coutinho	Documentary, History	8.4	72	Portuguese	Brazil	Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
Playing	2,007	Eduardo Coutinho	Documentary	8.4	57	Portuguese	Brazil	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.
Lower House	2,018	Douglas Duarte	Documentary	8.4	10	Portuguese	Brazil	During 2016, a film crew embeds inside the Brazilian Congress while lawmakers plot to overthrow the country's elected president, Dilma Rousseff.
Racionais MC's: From the Streets of São Paulo	2,022	Juliana Vicente	Documentary, Music	8.3	60	Portuguese	Brazil	Armed with music and a message, influential hip-hop group Racionais MC's turned their street poetry into a powerful movement in Brazil and beyond.
Waiting for the Carnival	2,019	Marcelo Gomes	Documentary	8.3	41	Portuguese	Brazil	A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city’s self-managed small businesses only get one real break from their self-exploiting lives in the textile business: the annual Carnival.
Hermanoteu In the Land of Godah	2,009	Bernardo Palmeiro	Comedy	8.3	31	Portuguese	Brazil	The comedy tells the story of Hermanotheus, brother of Micalateia and typical Hebrew of the year zero, companion, good shepherd and obedient. He receives the divine mission to guide his people to the land of Godah, in a satire on the biblical story of Moses. In a setting that represents an immense desert, actor Ricardo Pipo plays Hermanotheu, who encounters characters on the way from Cleopatra to the son of the Whole -Powerful. Actors Adriana Nunes, Adriano Siri, Jovane Nunes, Victor Leal and Welder Rodrigues take turns in the other roles. The voice of God, which appears in the off-screen, is by Chico Anysio. Following the group's line of satire, “Hermanoteu in the Land of Godah” visits the diversity of the Bible. The comedy also makes numerous quotes from the modern world, bringing the past closer to the present.
Whindersson Nunes: Proparoxítona	2,017	Diego Pignataro	Comedy	8.3	23	Portuguese	Brazil	Comedian Show Whindersson Nunes.
Sepultura Endurance	2,017	Otávio Juliano	Documentary, Music	8.3	15	Portuguese	Brazil	The long awaited documentary about Sepultura's incredible journey from Brazil to the world.
Oficina do Diabo	2,025	Filipe Valerim	Drama, Family	8.3	12	Portuguese	Brazil	In a competition in Hell, a master devil instructs his apprentice on human behavior while following the path of a "client" at the crossroads between good and evil.
Anavitória: Araguaína - Las Vegas	2,019	Leandro Aguiari	Documentary, Music	8.3	12	Portuguese	Brazil	This documentary follows charismatic Brazilian duo Anavitória from their modest hometown to the red carpet of the 2017 Latin Grammys in Las Vegas.
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People	2,021	Cesar Cabral	Animation, Documentary, Science Fiction, Comedy	8.3	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator.
10 Hours for Christmas	2,020	Cris D'amato	Comedy, Family	8.3	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Three siblings devise a plan to get their divorced parents to spend Christmas together.
Whindersson Nunes: Marminino	2,016	Diego Pignataro	Comedy	8.3	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Whindersson Nunes in Marminino
My Mom Is a Character 3	2,019	Susana Garcia	Comedy	8.2	492	Portuguese	Brazil	Dona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.
Monica and Friends: Lessons	2,021	Daniel Rezende	Family, Comedy, Drama, Adventure	8.2	95	Portuguese	Brazil	In the sequel to Turma da Mônica: Laços, we follow Mônica, Jimmy Five, Maggy and Smudge dealing with the consequences of a mistake made at school. At the same time, they face transformations from childhood to adolescence and are about to discover the value of friendship.
They Don't Wear Black Tie	1,981	Leon Hirszman	Drama	8.2	66	Portuguese	Brazil	Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
Rio, Northern Zone	1,957	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	Drama, Music	8.2	33	Portuguese	Brazil	A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.
Manas	2,025	Marianna Brennand	Drama	8.2	30	Portuguese	Brazil	Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.
Recollections of the Yellow House	1,989	João César Monteiro	Comedy, Drama	8.2	28	Portuguese	Portugal	Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
João, o Maestro	2,017	Mauro Lima	Drama	8.2	18	Portuguese	Brazil	João Carlos Martins was a child with serious health problems. Because of this, he had a reclusive childhood. But one day, the piano came into his life. He arises as a stubborn boy who, in a few years turns into one of the biggest promises of the world classical music.
Letter Beyond the Walls	2,019	André Canto	Documentary	8.2	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaigns, passing through the stigma imposed on people living with HIV, the documentary shows how society faced this epidemic in its deadliest phase over more than two decades. With this historical approach as its base, the film looks at the way HIV is viewed in today's society, revealing a picture of persistent misinformation and prejudice, which especially affects Brazil’s most historically vulnerable populations.
Pixo	2,009	Roberto T. Oliveira	Documentary	8.2	12	Portuguese	Brazil	The film discusses the cultural impact of "pichação", a Brazilian form of graffiti, on the streets of São Paulo and its international influence as one of the main cornerstones of Street Art.
Rita Lee: Mania de Você	2,025	Guido Goldberg	Documentary	8.2	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Just before her departure, Rita Lee writes a farewell letter to her three children and her husband and musical partner, Roberto de Carvalho, in which she reflects on her life and joyfully celebrates her family. Her final moments also mark the time to look back and review a career full of unforgettable successes, which led her to sell more than 55 million records. But it is also a time to reveal her downfalls, her vulnerable side, and her excesses as the queen of rock. With completely unseen personal archives and exclusive testimonies from her own family, as well as producers, journalists, musicians, and celebrities such as Gilberto Gil and Ney Matogrosso, "Rita Lee: Mania de Você" presents her definitive legacy.
Elite Squad	2,007	José Padilha	Drama, Action, Crime	8.1	2,629	Portuguese	Brazil	In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Central Station	1,998	Walter Salles	Drama	8.1	1,022	Portuguese	Brazil	An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Isle of Flowers	1,989	Jorge Furtado	Documentary	8.1	221	Portuguese	Brazil	A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso	2,025	Esmir Filho	Drama, Music	8.1	132	Portuguese	Brazil	From a repressive childhood to artistic revolution, Ney Matogrosso transforms Brazil's stages — and himself — through music, creativity and inner fire.
Nise: The Heart of Madness	2,016	Roberto Berliner	Drama	8.1	130	Portuguese	Brazil	After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
The Given Word	1,962	Anselmo Duarte	Drama	8.1	122	Portuguese	Brazil	Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara's church, in the state capital. Upon the recovery of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. He makes it to the church, but the priest refuses to accept the cross once he discovers the context of Zé's promise.
Pictures of Ghosts	2,023	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Documentary	8.1	57	Portuguese	Brazil	Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.
Master, a Building in Copacabana	2,002	Eduardo Coutinho	Documentary	8.1	54	Portuguese	Brazil	The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate rev...
São Paulo, Incorporated	1,965	Luiz Sérgio Person	Drama	8.1	46	Portuguese	Brazil	Carlos is a young man from the São Paulo middle class who works for a big company during a time when foreign automobile industries were settling in Brazil. Shortly after, he accepts a job at a factory that makes automobile parts, where he becomes manager. To a certain extent, he is a family man who works hard, earns well and lives unsatisfied. Without any prospects in his life to change the condition he rejects, his last resort is escaping.
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was	2,009	Calvito Leal	Documentary, Music	8.1	13	Portuguese	Brazil	In a time of timeless and revolutionary talents, Wilson Simonal shined as nobody before and innovated as only a few could. All of a sudden, everything vanished. This film maps the spectacular trajectory of the ex-Army corporal that ruled as a monarch, and was condemned to ostracism for an offense to which he pleaded not guilty.
Jonas and the Backyard Circus	2,015	Paula Gomes	Documentary	8.1	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Jonas is 13 years old and his life's dream is to maintain the circus that he created in his backyard. While he faces this challenge, he will live the adventure of growing up.
Malês	2,025	Antônio Pitanga	History, Drama	8.1	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the black population in the streets of Salvador against slavery in 1835. After the failure of the revolt, the protesters were harshly punished and repression against black people in Brazil increased.
The Lone Wolf	2,021	Filipe Melo	Mystery	8.1	10	Portuguese	Portugal	One night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.
The Second Mother	2,015	Anna Muylaert	Drama	8	769	Portuguese	Brazil	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.
Bingo: The King of the Mornings	2,017	Daniel Rezende	Comedy, Drama	8	405	Portuguese	Brazil	1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.
Beyond the Universe	2,022	Diego Freitas	Romance, Drama, Music	8	340	Portuguese	Brazil	While waiting for a kidney transplant, a young pianist finds an unexpected connection with her doctor — and the courage to fulfill her musical dreams.
Brazilian Holocaust	2,016	Daniela Arbex	Documentary	8	47	Portuguese	Brazil	Award-winning journalist Daniela Arbex examines the horrors of the Colônia psychiatric hospital, where more than 60,000 people were killed over decades.
Araby	2,018	João Dumans	Drama	8	40	Portuguese	Brazil	André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it’s here that Araby begins — or, rather, transforms. As André reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano’s life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.
Assault on the Pay Train	1,962	Roberto Farias	Crime, Drama	8	29	Portuguese	Brazil	Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Dr. Gama	2,021	Jeferson De	Drama, History	8	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.
Bacurau no Mapa	2,019	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Documentary	8	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show how they made the film an audience and critical success.
Elis & Tom: It Had to be You	2,023	Jom Tob Azulay	Documentary, Music	8	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Elis & Tom is considered one of the most important albums in the history of Brazilian music. Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1974, it was all captured by a team of filmmakers led by director Roberto de Oliveira, who arranged for the duo to meet. The original footage was kept for 45 years until restored and remastered in 2018. The film is also an exciting reunion of the director with the artists and the material he filmed nearly five decades ago.
I'm Still Here	2,024	Walter Salles	Drama, History	7.9	984	Portuguese	Brazil	A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
The Way He Looks	2,014	Daniel Ribeiro	Drama, Romance	7.9	973	Portuguese	Brazil	Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.
Estômago: A Gastronomic Story	2,007	Marcos Jorge	Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Crime	7.9	292	Portuguese	Brazil	In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
Minha Vida em Marte	2,018	Susana Garcia	Comedy, Romance	7.9	288	Portuguese	Brazil	Fernanda is married to Tom, with whom she has a five-year-old daughter, Joana. The couple is in the midst of wear and tear caused by living together for many years, which generates constant friction. Who helps Fernanda to overcome the crisis is her partner Aníbal, inseparable partner during the arduous journey between saving the marriage or putting an end to it.
Pixote	1,980	Héctor Babenco	Crime, Drama	7.9	231	Portuguese	Brazil	10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Brainstorm	2,001	Laís Bodanzky	Drama	7.9	225	Portuguese	Brazil	Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.
Whindersson Nunes: Adult	2,019	Diego Pignataro	Comedy	7.9	72	Portuguese	Brazil	Brazilian YouTube sensation Whindersson Nunes revisits his humble beginnings and much more in a series of playful stories and peculiar songs.
Vitória	2,025	Andrucha Waddington	Drama, Crime	7.9	62	Portuguese	Brazil	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.
Nosso Sonho	2,023	Eduardo Albergaria	Drama, Comedy, Music	7.9	60	Portuguese	Brazil	The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk melody in all time, showing how the rhythm and poetry of the periphery conquered Brazil.
Haunted Tales For Wicked Kids: The Movie	2,017	Victor-Hugo Borges	Comedy, Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror	7.9	41	Portuguese	Brazil	Pepe is a 12-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, a witch-businesswoman. After discovering that he is adopted and that his parents are alive, he decides to go in search of them, but thus ends up attracting the attention of Edmundo, a biomechanical villain who needs Pepe to realize his enormous evil plan: use the boy's energy to conquer the immortality of its kind.
The Boy and the Wind	1,967	Carlos Hugo Christensen	Fantasy, Drama	7.9	35	Portuguese	Brazil	A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.
Luccas Neto in: Children's Day	2,019	Lucas Margutti	Adventure, Comedy, Family	7.9	25	Portuguese	Brazil	Luccas Neto is planning a big Children's Day celebration at a school but an unexpected threat puts the party and his friends at risk.
Critic	2,008	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Documentary	7.9	19	Portuguese	Brazil	Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Axé: Music of a People	2,017	Chico Kertész	Documentary, Music	7.9	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Originally from Bahia and considered today one of the most globalised musical movements in the world, Axé is a musical rhythm that carries in its essence a good part of all the musical and cultural syncretism of Bahia. The documentary brings together interviews and archive images outlining the birth of Axé.
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	2,010	José Padilha	Drama, Action, Crime	7.8	1,991	Portuguese	Brazil	After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.
Lisbela and the Prisoner	2,003	Guel Arraes	Comedy, Romance	7.8	401	Portuguese	Brazil	Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
Invisible Life	2,019	Karim Aïnouz	Drama	7.8	337	Portuguese	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
Reflections of a Blender	2,010	André Klotzel	Comedy, Thriller	7.8	80	Portuguese	Brazil	After receiving a new blade, a blender suddenly gains consciousness. As it grapples with existential questions, it becomes the sole companion to the grieving wife of a missing man.
Eu Fico Loko	2,017	Bruno Garotti	Comedy	7.8	79	Portuguese	Brazil	The biography of the Brazilian YouTuber Christian Figueiredo.
The Hijacking of Flight 375	2,023	Marcus Baldini	Thriller, Drama	7.8	53	Portuguese	Brazil	Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis.
Mussum, o Filmis	2,023	Sílvio Guindane	Drama, History, Comedy	7.8	47	Portuguese	Brazil	The trajectory of Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes, known as Mussum, from Trapalhões. His poor childhood, his military career, his relationship with Mangueira and his success with the group Originais do Samba, as well as behind the scenes as a member of Trapalhões.
As Mães de Chico Xavier	2,011	Glauber Filho	Drama	7.8	47	Portuguese	Brazil	Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it.
The Tyrannical Father	1,941	António Lopes Ribeiro	Family, Comedy, Romance	7.8	36	Portuguese	Portugal	While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques.
O Barato de Iacanga	2,019	Thiago Mattar	Documentary, Music	7.8	25	Portuguese	Brazil	Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
Pacarrete	2,019	Allan Deberton	Drama	7.8	24	Portuguese	Brazil	Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.
Yonlu	2,018	Hique Montanari	Romance, Drama	7.8	20	Portuguese	Brazil	A fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent in five languages, Yonlu had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he was also taking part in a forum for potential suicide.
News from a Personal War	1,999	João Moreira Salles	Documentary, Crime	7.8	20	Portuguese	Brazil	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.
Chico: Brazilian Artist	2,015	Miguel Faria Jr.	Documentary, Music	7.8	18	Portuguese	Brazil	Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
O Costa d'África	1,954	João Mendes	Family, Comedy	7.8	17	Portuguese	Portugal	Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums o...
In the Intense Now	2,017	João Moreira Salles	Documentary	7.8	16	Portuguese	Brazil	A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
Case of the Naves Brothers	1,967	Luiz Sérgio Person	Drama, History	7.8	15	Portuguese	Brazil	After their relative and associate runs way, the Naves brothers inform the police of the incident, who end up arresting them under the accusation of murdering the missing person. The brothers are tortured in order to confess a crime they did not commit while their wives are raped.
Loop	2,019	Bruno Bini	Science Fiction, Drama	7.8	12	Portuguese	Brazil	After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel then gives up his future and returns to the past. However, he is not the same man.
Chofer de Praça	1,958	Milton Amaral	Comedy	7.8	12	Portuguese	Brazil	The humble Zacarias goes to the big city with his wife to help their son who wants to be a Doctor. There he gets a job, and lives a lot of funny adventures as a taxi driver.
The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga	2,011	Vinicius Coimbra	Drama, Adventure, Western	7.8	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.
L.O.C.A. – Liga das Obsessivas Compulsivas por Amor	2,021	Cláudia Jouvin	Comedy	7.8	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Manuela is journalist in her thirties who faces love and professional crises. In an unexpected incident, she gets to know Elena, who takes her to a support group for women who love too much or are excessively jealous: the League of those who are Obsessive-Compulsive for Affection (L.O.C.A., Brazilian slang for "crazy"). The therapist seems to be an extremely mature and structured psychologist. Manuela sees this group as a chance to write an incredible article about the current female roles and wishes.
Jacinta	2,017	Jorge Paixão da Costa	Drama	7.8	10	Portuguese	Portugal	The story of Jacinta, one of the three children involved in the Marian apparition reported in 1917 at Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal.
Xuxa in Girl's Dream	2,007	Rudi Lagemann	Family	7.8	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Kika, a math teacher, accidentaly becomes a child again after eating a magic cupcake. This leads her in a journey of self-discovery, while also helping Juju, a 10-year old girl chasing her dreams.
Bacurau	2,019	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Mystery, Western, Thriller	7.7	1,120	Portuguese	Brazil	Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
My Mom Is a Character	2,013	André Pellenz	Comedy	7.7	680	Portuguese	Brazil	After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
Rich in Love	2,020	Bruno Garotti	Romance, Comedy	7.7	630	Portuguese	Brazil	Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.
My Mom Is a Character 2	2,016	César Rodrigues	Comedy	7.7	522	Portuguese	Brazil	Dona Hermínia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In counterpart, she will welcome, as a visitor, her sister Lúcia Helena, who's been living in New York.
The Edge of Democracy	2,019	Petra Costa	Documentary	7.7	374	Portuguese	Brazil	A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
Cousins	2,019	Mauro Carvalho	Comedy, Romance, Drama	7.7	349	Portuguese	Brazil	Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.
Monica and Friends: Bonds	2,019	Daniel Rezende	Family, Adventure, Comedy	7.7	296	Portuguese	Brazil	Fluffy, Jimmy Five's pet dog, vanished. He develops an infallible plan to rescue the little dog, but, he will need help from his faithful friends: Monica, Maggy and Smudge. Together, they will face challengers and live incredible adventures to get Fluffy back home.
Caramelo	2,025	Diego Freitas	Comedy, Drama	7.7	251	Portuguese	Brazil	After a life-changing diagnosis, a promising chef finds hope and humor with the help of a fur-midable dog friend.
I Don't Want to Go Back Alone	2,011	Daniel Ribeiro	Drama, Romance	7.7	235	Portuguese	Brazil	The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.
Eduardo and Monica	2,022	René Sampaio	Romance, Drama	7.7	82	Portuguese	Brazil	On an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. A curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love. In 1980s Brasília, their love needs to mature and learn to overcome differences.
Ice Merchants	2,023	João Gonzalez	Animation, Drama	7.7	55	Portuguese	France	Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Irmã Dulce	2,014	Vicente Amorim	Drama, History	7.7	33	Portuguese	Brazil	Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”, also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an incurable respiratory disease, machismo, the indifference of politicians and even the dogmas of the Church to dedicate her life to the care of the miserable, leaving a legacy that continues today.
Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil	2,016	Belisario Franca	Documentary	7.7	23	Portuguese	Brazil	The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas in the interior of São Paulo. They then discover a horrifying fact that during the 1930s, fifty black and mullato boys were taken from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro to the farm where the bricks were found. There they were identified by numbers and were submitted to slave labour by a family that was part of the political and economic elite of the country and who did not hide their Nazi sympathizing ideals.
The Day That Lasted 21 Years	2,012	Camilo Tavares	Documentary	7.7	23	Portuguese	Brazil	Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.
Ai que Vida!	2,008	Cícero Filho	Comedy, Romance	7.7	23	Portuguese	Brazil	In the fictional Poço Fundo, politics and affection mingle in saga against corruption. Cleonice decides to run for mayor while her son, Valdir, pays his respects to a philanthropic institution and ends up falling in love with a girl.
Luccas Neto in: Summer Camp	2,019	Lucas Margutti	Comedy	7.7	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Luccas and Gi are heading to a world famous gymkhana camp. Only problem: so are their bullies... A fun musical that will get you in a vacation mood.
Faith in the Impossible	2,025	Ernani Nunes	Drama	7.7	19	Portuguese	Brazil	American pastor Renee Murdoch, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, was tragically attacked during a run in September 2012. Hospitalized in a critical condition and with minimal prospects of recovery, she received the full support of her family and her husband Philip, who shared Renee's struggle with the world, hoping to bring together as many people as possible in prayer for her recovery.
Detetives do Prédio Azul 2: O Mistério Italiano	2,018	Vivianne Jundi	Adventure, Fantasy, Family	7.7	17	Portuguese	Brazil	During Expo-Bruxas, the largest wizard fair in the world, Pippo, Bento and Sol travel to Italy to investigate the disappearance of the sorceress Berenice, who was kidnapped by the wizards Máximo and Mínima Buongusto. With teamwork and the help of Pippo's grandmother, they will try to solve this mystery.
The Woman of Everyone	1,969	Rogério Sganzerla	Fantasy, Comedy, Drama	7.7	17	Portuguese	Brazil	Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
The Artist and the City	1,956	Manoel de Oliveira	Documentary	7.7	16	Portuguese	Portugal	The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing. The impressionist realism of Cruz’s drawings dissolves into Oliveira’s vision of Porto, which at the same time portrays the painter and his work.
My Body is Political	2,017	Alice Riff	Documentary	7.7	15	Portuguese	Brazil	Paula, Beatriz, Giu and Fernando live in one of the poorest favelas of São Paulo. A world of marginalization and despair, in which they struggle for their rights as transgenders, but also for survival: according to the statistics from the Transgender Europe NGO, Brazil is the nation with the highest number of murders of transgender people each year. The choice to experience your body in complete freedom is a revolutionary concept and highly risky in this context. It is an affirmation of one's being. it is no coincidence that one of them, who has begun the transition phase writes in his diary: "Each hormone pill is a declaration of ownership of my body. After each pill, I feel much better in my own skin". This movie shows their daily life, their struggles and protests in a world where ignorance becomes oppression and hate: in a word transphobia.
My Friend Nietzsche	2,012	Fáuston da Silva	Comedy	7.7	13	Portuguese	Brazil	11-year-old Lucas finds a philosophy book by Nietzsche in the city dump, discarded by its previous owner. This improbable meeting will be the beginning of a violent revolution in his mind, within his family and within society. In the end, Lucas will be no longer a boy -- He will be dynamite.
Intermissions	2,004	João Moreira Salles	Documentary	7.7	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, Lula is afraid that he will lose his freedom as president. Combined with Lula's candor, the film's observational style provides some very special insight into one of Brazil's most popular leaders.
Fishtronaut: The Movie	2,018	Celia Catunda	Animation, Adventure, Family	7.7	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Fishtronaut, Marina and Zeek travel to the big city in search of Grandpa, only to find that everyone else has mysteriously vanished too.
The Space in Between: Marina Abramović and Brazil	2,016	Marco del Fiol	Documentary	7.7	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Marina Abramović travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process. The route is comprised of poignant encounters with healers and sages from the Brazilian countryside, exploring the limits between art and spirituality. This external trip triggers in Marina a profound introspective journey through memories, pain and past experiences.
The Dare	1,965	Paulo César Saraceni	Drama	7.7	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son.
Carandiru	2,003	Héctor Babenco	Drama	7.6	592	Portuguese	Brazil	When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Marighella	2,021	Wagner Moura	Drama, History, Action	7.6	131	Portuguese	Brazil	Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
Tattoo	2,013	Hilton Lacerda	Drama	7.6	82	Portuguese	Brazil	Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time	2,007	Mauricio de Sousa	Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction	7.6	81	Portuguese	Brazil	Our heroes need to take a trip in time, in a Time Machine, in order to recoup the essence of the four elements before the Earth gets frozen. The Gang will face the dangers of the Ancient History with Piteco, will help Papa-Capim to save the Forest, will fight with the Astronaut against the pirates and will even meet themselves as babies in the past!
The Red Light Bandit	1,968	Rogério Sganzerla	Thriller, Crime	7.6	66	Portuguese	Brazil	Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
Apocalypse in the Tropics	2,025	Petra Costa	Documentary	7.6	48	Portuguese	Brazil	When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian evangelical leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former president Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist: a magnetic pastor who aspires to play puppet master to the far-right leader.
Aniki-Bóbó	1,942	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama, Family	7.6	46	Portuguese	Portugal	Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha.
The Seamstress	2,017	Breno Silveira	Drama	7.6	43	Portuguese	Brazil	In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way.
Brazil 2002: The Real Story	2,022	Luis Ara	Documentary	7.6	39	Portuguese	United Kingdom	A behind-the-scenes look at Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning soccer team, with unseen footage and interviews with the players.
The Guns	1,964	Ruy Guerra	Western, Drama	7.6	30	Portuguese	Argentina	A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
The Edge of Theocracy	2,020	Rodrigo Van Der Put	Comedy	7.6	28	Portuguese	Brazil	Jesus life and work goes through rumors, conspiracies, injuries, friendship and fanaticism. An emblematic figure of the 1st century, Jesus was a charismatic leader, but he faced many trials.
Same Old West	2,025	Erico Rassi	Drama, Western	7.6	24	Portuguese	Brazil	In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly abandoned by the women they love. Sad and bitter, these men turn violently against each other.
Estamira	2,004	Marcos Prado	Documentary	7.6	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Estamira is a 63-year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. She leads a tough life and has supported herself for the past 20 years by picking through garbage at the Jardim Gramacho Disposal Area in Rio de Janeiro. The film follows her starting in 2000, the year she begins treatment in a psychiatric clinic. At first, it is hard to understand her in her stream-of-consciousness sentences, delusions and obsessions. Gradually, however, we get to know her as a woman who can have quiet and lucid moments despite her illness.
Saint Bernard	1,972	Leon Hirszman	Drama	7.6	20	Portuguese	Brazil	The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
Divine Divas	2,016	Leandra Leal	Documentary	7.6	19	Portuguese	Brazil	Eight iconic performers of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists go on stage to celebrate their 50th career jubilee. The film depicts the human, personal dimension behind these icons, deconstructing gender stereotypes.
The History of Eternity	2,014	Camilo Cavalcante	Drama, Music, Romance	7.6	19	Portuguese	Brazil	In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
World's First Christmas	2,023	Gigi Soares	Comedy, Drama	7.6	18	Portuguese	Brazil	A young girl wishes Christmas was over for good, and her wish is granted with unexpected consequences.
An Unforgettable Year - Spring	2,023	Bruno Garotti	Drama, Romance	7.6	15	Portuguese	Brazil	When she's about to fail in math – the subject she hates the most, Jasmine has to take booster classes with a cute young tutor, but who breathes numbers in everything he does. Facing family pressure and embarking on a risky love, she'll need to overcome her fears and limitations to pursue her true dream: be an artist.
ABC of a Strike	1,990	Leon Hirszman	Documentary	7.6	15	Portuguese	Brazil	ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film captures the negotiations between the labor unions and the factory bosses and shows the birth of the region’s Worker’s Party, as well as the emergence of its charismatic leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rising from extreme poverty, Lula gained national prominence as a union activist during the late 70s and early 80s. After being jailed during his time as a union leader, he eventually becomes Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010.
The Princess and the Robot	1,984	Mauricio de Sousa	Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Science Fiction	7.6	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Lord Raider and an endearing little robot companion reside in the far-off realm of Planet Carrotland. As fate would have it, a cosmic spark from the radiant Pulsar star strikes the robot just as he becomes smitten with Princess Mimi, a charming pink bunny. However, their newfound love faces a significant obstacle when the king decrees a grand tournament in the kingdom, intent on determining who shall earn the honor of marrying the Princess.
Gracinha	2,021	Gabriel Dietrich	Music	7.6	13	Portuguese	Brazil	After the death of what Gracinha - a ballerina - thought to be the soul of art, she faces a dilemma: can she carry on doing what she's always done, or should she start a search for something that could set her heart free?
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe	2,025	Unknown	Documentary, Crime	7.6	12	Portuguese	Portugal	In June 2001, hundreds of kilos of cocaine washed up in a Portuguese village. This gripping documentary reveals the long-lasting impact on the community.
Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi 8: ...Tá Brincando	2,015	José Marcio Nicolosi	Comedy, Animation, Family	7.6	10	Portuguese	Brazil	There are eight episodes in stories full of adventure and play in the neighborhood of Limoeiro, with a new car ride, lost treasure, art exhibition in the square, puppet theater, an unexpected escape from Cascão (again?), Characters Saltimbancos and a lot more.
Aquarius	2,016	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Drama	7.5	496	Portuguese	Brazil	Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
The Man Who Copied	2,003	Jorge Furtado	Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime	7.5	371	Portuguese	Brazil	A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.
The Secret Agent	2,025	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Crime, Drama, Thriller	7.5	364	Portuguese	Brazil	Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Four Days in September	1,997	Bruno Barreto	Thriller, Drama, History	7.5	132	Portuguese	Brazil	Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
Once Upon a Time in Rio	2,008	Breno Silveira	Drama	7.5	82	Portuguese	Brazil	Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the ...
Shark: The Beginning	2,021	Johnny Chae	Action, Drama	7.5	77	Portuguese	South Korea	A bullied teenager who is locked up at a juvenile detention center due to an unexpected accident, meets a mixed martial arts champion to break through his own limits.
The Son of a Thousand Men	2,025	Daniel Rezende	Drama	7.5	52	Portuguese	Brazil	In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets.
Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio	2,012	Walter Carvalho	Music, Documentary	7.5	47	Portuguese	Brazil	As the world boiled in the rush of Easy Rider bikes, in the frenetic pace of Elvis Presley, in Beatniks poets, in the explosion of counterculture, a boy from Bahia gave birth to Rock in Brazil. A runaway flying saucer that abducted the hearts and minds of thousands of fans, Raul Seixas, a man who became a myth. Raul died young because he lived intensely. Rock n 'roll, free love, alternative society, drugs, black magic, military dictatorship, women and daughters. A man who wanted to live from his work and died for it. The beginning, the end and the middle are confused, because the story is not over. The film reveals through rare images of archive, meeting with relatives, conversations with artists, producers and friends, the trajectory of the legend of Rock.
The Trial	2,018	Maria Ramos	Documentary	7.5	36	Portuguese	Brazil	The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff from the point of view of her defence team. This is a courtroom drama that unfolds slowly: the appearances of the various parties gradually turn the proceedings into something akin to theatre. Inside the courtroom, grand emotions are played to full effect whilst, on the other side of the doors, lobbyists and supporters pace the corridors. Meanwhile, outside, in front of Brasília’s modernist government buildings, demonstrators are chanting like a Greek chorus. Only the main character, Rousseff herself, remains professional and aloof.
Coffee With Cinnamon	2,018	Glenda Nicácio	Drama	7.5	33	Portuguese	Brazil	Five friends drink beer and chat at Violeta's house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest times of their lives.
Son of a Mother	2,022	Susana Garcia	Documentary	7.5	31	Portuguese	Brazil	This film is for those who really miss Paulo Gustavo! 'SON OF A MOTHER' shows the delightful complicity between the actor and Dona Déa, his inspiration to create Dona Hermínia. With never-before-seen footage, the film follows the funny and exciting backstage of the artist's last tour. Get ready to laugh, cry and remember why Paulo Gustavo is unforgettable.
Santiago	2,007	João Moreira Salles	Documentary	7.5	22	Portuguese	Brazil	Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
Mamonas Forever	2,009	Cláudio Kahns	Documentary, Music	7.5	21	Portuguese	Brazil	In less than ten months, the music band Mamonas Assassinas went from being completely unknown to becoming one of the biggest phenomena in Brazilian music. Irreverent, intelligent, sarcastic and creative, the band took over Brazil and sold two million albums in just six months. Never-before-seen footage and interviews from family, friends, producers, and musicians tell the band’s story, their challenges, their rise to fame, and the tragic aeroplane accident that killed all its members in 1996.
The Day Dorival Faced the Guard	1,986	Jorge Furtado	Comedy	7.5	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.
Cat Skin	1,962	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	Drama	7.5	20	Portuguese	Brazil	A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.
Malaria	2,013	Edson Oda	Action, Animation, Western	7.5	19	Portuguese	Brazil	A young mercenary is hired to kill Death.
Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City	1,968	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	Documentary	7.5	19	Portuguese	Brazil	In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)
Hovering Over the Water	1,993	João César Monteiro	Drama, Romance	7.5	18	Portuguese	Portugal	Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.
Nobody Belongs to Nobody	2,023	Wagner de Assis	Drama	7.5	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Gabriela, Roberto's wife, is called to work in the office of Renato, a successful lawyer married to Gioconda. After that, the quartet begins to suffer from lies, exhausting relationships and tragedies.
The Phenomenon	2,022	Duncan McMath	Documentary	7.5	15	Portuguese	Brazil	Featuring contributions from legendary team-mates and opponents, friends and family, this is the definitive story of Ronaldo, encompassing his meteoric rise, his spectacular fall (including one of football’s biggest mysteries) and the World Cup’s greatest ever redemption story.
Visit, or Memories and Confessions	2,015	Manoel de Oliveira	Documentary	7.5	15	Portuguese	Portugal	A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
Mutum	2,007	Sandra Kogut	Drama	7.5	15	Portuguese	Brazil	Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
Guaxuma	2,019	Nara Normande	Animation, Drama	7.5	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.
X	2,017	Carolina Santana	N/A	7.5	14	Portuguese	Unknown
Fragile as the World	2,001	Rita Azevedo Gomes	Drama, Romance	7.5	13	Portuguese	Portugal	An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story.
Last Conversations	2,015	Eduardo Coutinho	Documentary	7.5	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho’s longtime partner, film editor Jordana Berg, and the final cut is signed by João Moreira Salles.
Aunt Virginia	2,023	Fabio Meira	Drama	7.5	11	Portuguese	Brazil	Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents. Taking place in just one day, the film follows Virginia's preparation to receive the sisters who are coming to her house to celebrate Christmas.
The Prisoner of the Iron Bars	2,004	Paulo Sacramento	Documentary, History	7.5	11	Portuguese	Brazil	In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento trained some inmates and together with his crew, they produced many hours of footage, showing daily life in prison.
The Mutants	1,998	Teresa Villaverde	Drama	7.5	11	Portuguese	Portugal	Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
Erótica, a Fêmea Sensual	1,984	Ody Fraga	Drama	7.5	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Flora is a happy housewife but suffer a serious accident and loses her husband and gets her face terribly burned. Depressed, she feels herself guilty for the accident, but her sexuality is still on so she hires men to fulfill her carnal desires. Among them is cynical and ambitious Romeu who makes her do whatever he wants. But by advice of her friend Suzana, she undergoes a plastic surgery and falls in love with her doctor, Romeu who is the lover of Suzana. Romeu and Suzana will do all they can to destroy this love.
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo	1,967	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	Documentary	7.5	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
Loveling	2,018	Gustavo Pizzi	Drama	7.4	76	Portuguese	Brazil	On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
(re)kindle	2,021	Aron Matschulat Aguiar	Drama, Romance	7.4	61	Portuguese	Unknown	Ana and Helen, two divorced women, were close friends as teenagers. Today, amidst the corona virus pandemic and in quarantine, they get in touch after 20 years via internet. Through video conference calls, memories, sensations and emotions reflourishes.
Outcast Rockstar	2,021	Felipe Novaes	Documentary	7.4	59	Portuguese	Brazil	The life and career of Brazilian singer Chorão, Charlie Brown Jr's frontman. The story of one of the most important rock stars in Brazil, from testimonies about his personal and professional life and archival footage. Beginning in the early 1990s, when his band released their first album and hit the radio stations, Chorão lived two intense decades of national and international success, full of controversial moments, until his premature death in 2013.
Re-Existences	2,020	Márcia Bellotti	Documentary	7.4	55	Portuguese	Unknown	“Re-Existence” is a documentary about migration stories of individuals from the Brazilian queer community.
Xingu	2,012	Cao Hamburger	Drama, History	7.4	55	Portuguese	Brazil	In the '40s, three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlisting in the Roncador-Xingu Expedition, which has a mission to tame the Central Brazil. The Villas Boas brothers: Orlando, 27, Claudius, 25, and Leonardo, 23, engage in a fantastic and incredible saga. Soon start to lead the expedition that opens new paths 1,500 km, navigates over 1,000 miles of unspoilt rivers, opens 19 airfields for airplanes Army, gives rise to the creation of 43 towns and 14 make contact with wild Indian tribes, unknown, as the Xavante, courageous and feared warriors, no casualties on both sides. This adventure allows the Villas Boas brothers the creation of the Xingu National Park, the first major Amerindian reservation in Brazil, the size of Belgium, transforming them into true contemporary heroes.
My Sweet Orange Tree	2,012	Marcos Bernstein	Drama, Family	7.4	49	Portuguese	Brazil	Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.
Abraham's Valley	1,993	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7.4	42	Portuguese	Portugal	Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Baptism of Blood	2,007	Helvécio Ratton	Thriller, Drama, History	7.4	35	Portuguese	Brazil	In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
Under Pressure	2,016	Andrucha Waddington	Drama	7.4	33	Portuguese	Brazil	Over a tense day in the emergency hospital, we follow the surgeon's work Evandro and staff in three cases that require risk surgery: a drug dealer, a military police officer and a rich family child, all injured during a shootout in a slum next to the hospital.
Afonso Padilha: Classless	2,020	Rudge Campos	Comedy	7.4	26	Portuguese	Brazil	Brazilian comedian Afonso Padilha dives into his humble beginnings and digs out hilarious stories about his childhood in this very personal set.
Iracema	1,976	Jorge Bodanzky	Drama	7.4	26	Portuguese	Brazil	A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
Property	2,023	Daniel Bandeira	Drama, Thriller	7.4	25	Portuguese	Brazil	To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family's farm, a reclusive designer locks herself in her armored car. The clock is ticking and the tension rises. Separated by an impenetrable layer of glass, two universes are about to collide.
Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi 2	2,005	José Marcio Nicolosi	Animation, Comedy, Family	7.4	24	Portuguese	Brazil	Mônica's class left the comic to invade the video once again with new adventures that live up to the story that has been amusing different generations for many years.
Romance	2,008	Guel Arraes	Romance	7.4	23	Portuguese	Brazil	During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Pedro and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.
Meninas Não Choram	2,024	Vivianne Jundi	Drama, Family	7.4	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Diagnosed with leukemia, a vibrant, soccer-loving teenager enters the hospital, where she finds purpose in friendship and her example influences others.
Found Memories	2,012	Julia Murat	Drama	7.4	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cup of coffee on the bench outside Antonio's shop. At midday the church bells ring, summoning the villagers to mass. In the early evening, they all share a meal together. And so life proceeds in Jotuomba, the days languidly drifting into one another; the only variations seem to be in the weather. But, one day Rita arrives looking for a place to stay.
Baby	2,025	Marcelo Caetano	Drama, Romance	7.4	20	Portuguese	Brazil	After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. During a visit to a porn theater, he encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion, oscillating between exploitation and protection, jealousy and complicity.
The Asphalt Kiss	2,018	Murilo Benício	Drama, Crime	7.4	20	Portuguese	Brazil	When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.
Go Ahead, Brazil!	1,982	Roberto Farias	Crime, Drama	7.4	20	Portuguese	Brazil	Mid-1970s. When the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian football team on the World Cup serve as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship. Under this context, Jofre Godoi da Fonseca, an alienated middle-class man, is mistaken for Sarmento, a political activist he met at an airport prior to his assassination. He is then arrested for being "subversive".
O Filho Eterno	2,016	Paulo Machline	Drama, Family	7.4	19	Portuguese	Brazil	Roberto is in the edge to become a father for the first time. He was already dreaming of the years yet to come, wondering how his son would be. While trying to figure out how to act like a father he must also face and endure a tough reality - to be a Down syndrome child's dad. Insecure and ashamed of the situation he will have to confront and overcome it.
Cássia	2,015	Paulo Henrique Fontenelle	Documentary, Music	7.4	18	Portuguese	Brazil	Cássia Eller Rejane. Cássia Eller. Cássia. A powerful restless force on stage, shined herself out of it. One of the greats of Brazilian music, Cássia Eller marked the 1990s and shocked the country with her early death in 2001. A film about the singer, the mother, the woman who exposed her personal life and broke barriers, leaving a beautiful social and artistic legacy.
Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi 3: Planos Infalíveis	2,008	José Marcio Nicolosi	Animation, Family, Comedy	7.4	17	Portuguese	Brazil	Franjinha, the inventor kid in Monica's gang, tired of reading the comics, invents a new device to read the stories: a kind of a story-processor, that swallows the printed pages and projects the scenes in movement, on the wall.
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga	1,965	Roberto Santos	Action, Drama, Western	7.4	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies, is bitten up and left for dead, being rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again. Influenced by the couple, Matraga starts a long penitent life while waiting for his hour and chance to payback, starting a fight between his violent nature, his hidden desire of vengeance and the mysticism and goodness which is also part of him.
Belarmino	1,964	Fernando Lopes	Documentary, Drama	7.4	12	Portuguese	Portugal	A portrait of Belarmino Fragoso, a veteran boxer in Lisbon nearing the end of his career. In a blend of reportage and re-enactment, the many vices of the once national featherweight champion are revealed against a background of the grim economics of boxing in 1960s Portugal.
Seven Years in May	2,019	Affonso Uchôa	Documentary, Drama	7.4	11	Portuguese	Argentina	One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled, without looking back. From that moment on, his life changed, as if that night had never ended. One evening, around an improvised fire near a factory, he decides to confide his journey to a stranger. Rafael’s intimate account meets the collective testimony of an entire nation oppressed by poverty, police repression and institutional corruption.
The Train of Salt and Sugar	2,016	Licínio Azevedo	Adventure, Drama, War	7.4	10	Portuguese	Mozambique	In 1989, Mozambique is a country ruined by civil war. The train that connects Nampula to Malawi is the only hope for people willing to risk their lives to exchange a few bags of salt for sugar. Running slowly over sabotaged tracks, the journey is filled with obstacles and violence. Mariamu, a frequent traveler, shares her trip with her friend Rosa, a nurse who is going to her new hospital, living the reality of war for the first time, Lieutenant Taiar, who only knows the reality of his military life, and another soldier, Salomão, with whom he doesn’t get along. Amongst bullets and laughter, stories of love and war unfold as the train advances towards the next stop.
Guida	2,014	Rosana Urbes	Animation, Drama	7.4	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Guida, a sweet lady who has been working as an archivist at a Courthouse for 30 years, has her routine changed when she sees a newspaper ad about life drawing classes in a cultural center of the city.
Just Another Christmas	2,020	Roberto Santucci	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Family	7.3	435	Portuguese	Brazil	After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.
Boy & the World	2,014	Alê Abreu	Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Family	7.3	252	Portuguese	Brazil	Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.
Fala Sério, Mãe!	2,017	Pedro Vasconcelos	Comedy, Family	7.3	229	Portuguese	Brazil	Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.
A Wolf at the Door	2,013	Fernando Coimbra	Drama, Thriller, Crime	7.3	209	Portuguese	Brazil	Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.
Pelé	2,021	David Tryhorn	Documentary	7.3	206	Portuguese	United Kingdom	Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian footballer who personified football as art.
Bus 174	2,002	José Padilha	Documentary, Crime	7.3	139	Portuguese	Brazil	Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
Carrossel: O Filme	2,015	Maurício Eça	Comedy, Family	7.3	129	Portuguese	Brazil	A group of friends finds their fun at vacation camp ruined when a big corporate developer threatens to build a pollution-spewing factory on the land.
Behind the Sun	2,001	Walter Salles	Drama, Thriller, Romance	7.3	128	Portuguese	France	Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Entranced Earth	1,967	Glauber Rocha	Drama	7.3	121	Portuguese	Brazil	Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
The Movie of My Life	2,017	Selton Mello	Drama	7.3	117	Portuguese	Brazil	The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.
Barren Lives	1,963	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	Drama	7.3	97	Portuguese	Brazil	In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.
Elena	2,013	Petra Costa	Documentary, Drama	7.3	95	Portuguese	United States of America	Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds o...
Mars One	2,022	Gabriel Martins	Drama	7.3	93	Portuguese	Brazil	A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career.
Hour of the Star	1,985	Suzana Amaral	Drama, Comedy	7.3	79	Portuguese	Brazil	Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
The Smoke Master	2,023	Andre Sigwalt	Action, Comedy, Fantasy	7.3	74	Portuguese	Brazil	The journey of Gabriel and Daniel, two brothers cursed by the Chinese mafia with its feared Three Generations Revenge, who have already reaped the life of their grandfather and their father. To survive, one of the brothers must learn the Smoke Style secrets, a little known Cannabis martial art, taught by a single master, high up in the mountains.
All Love Songs	2,018	Joana Mariani	Romance	7.3	71	Portuguese	Brazil	Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years earlier to her husband Daniel. Albeit separated by time, both stories will cross paths in a unique way.
Love for Sale	2,006	Karim Aïnouz	Drama	7.3	65	Portuguese	Brazil	In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
Paradise Lost	2,018	Monique Gardenberg	Drama, Music, Romance	7.3	56	Portuguese	Brazil	Marked by losses and mismatches, José's eccentric family seek to be happy while locked in Paraíso Perdido, a nightclub that has stopped in time, where they sing popular romantic music.
Colossal Youth	2,006	Pedro Costa	Drama	7.3	48	Portuguese	Portugal	After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Good Luck	2,014	Carolina Jabor	Drama	7.3	43	Portuguese	Brazil	After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live and they know it. This shall not prevent the emergence of a great romance in the clinic.
Bem-Vinda a Quixeramobim	2,022	Edmilson Filho	Comedy	7.3	36	Portuguese	Brazil	Aimée is a millionaire influencer who has all her family's assets blocked, except for a farm in the countryside of Ceará that she inherited from her grandfather. She leaves for the hinterland in an attempt to sell the property, but ashamed of the new reality, she invents that she will take a "sabbatical period" for a year. Thus, she will have to deal with her new life and sustain the lie on social media.
Legalize it!	2,017	Johnny Araújo	Drama	7.3	34	Portuguese	Brazil	The meeting between two young guys, Marcelo —in the future, Marcelo D2— and Skunk , who sold t-shirts and cassette tapes in the center of Rio de Janeiro to survive, resulted in one of the most popular bands in Brazil in the 1990’s, Planet Hemp. Suppressed by a prejudiced society, the two made of their music a cry of alertness and resistance, conquering the hearts and minds of an entire generation.
Red Carpet	2,005	Luiz Alberto Pereira	Comedy	7.3	34	Portuguese	Brazil	Quinzinho has a promise to keep: to take his son, Neco, to the city to watch a Mazzaropi movie. They live in a small farm in São Paulo. In this odyssey through the towns of São Paulo, he also takes his wife Zulmira, who goes unwillingly, and their donkey Policarpo. On their journey, they find regional peculiarities and undergo magical situations related to popular belief.
D.P.A. Detetives do Prédio Azul - O Filme	2,017	André Pellenz	Family, Adventure, Mystery	7.3	33	Portuguese	Brazil	The Detetives do Prédio Azul are faced with the biggest case of their lives: saving the building itself from destruction. Pippo, Sol and Bento infiltrate Dona Leocádia's party, the terrible manager who is literally a witch. There they witness a "magical" crime, which condemns the Blue Building to an emergency demolition.
Divórcio	2,017	Pedro Amorim	Comedy	7.3	28	Portuguese	Brazil	20 years after running away together, Julio and Noeli have raised a family and run a successful business together. However, their marriage seems to be failing, so Noeli files for divorce. Both will do whatever it takes to win their legal battle.
José & Pilar	2,010	Miguel Gonçalves Mendes	Documentary	7.3	27	Portuguese	Brazil	A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.
The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife	2,022	Gustavo Fernández	Drama	7.3	26	Portuguese	Brazil	José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time when Spiritism was not as well known and respected in the country, Arigó became a symbol of hope through his surgeries and spiritual cures. Based on a true story, Arigó, with the help of the spirit of Dr. Fritz, performed numerous spiritual surgeries on people from Brazil and the world.
O Costa do Castelo	1,943	Arthur Duarte	Comedy, Romance	7.3	26	Portuguese	Portugal	André (Curado Ribeiro), is a son of a wealthy family who meets a girl called Luisinha (Milu). Luisinha lives at a small pension house with Rita (Maria Olguim) and Januário (João Silva), who are as parents to her, and with mr. Simplício Costa (António Silva), better known as Costa do Castelo, a lazy but highly talented guitar player who together with (Hermínia Silva) reaches success.
Eloá the Hostage: Live on TV	2,025	Cris Ghattas	Documentary, Crime	7.3	25	Portuguese	Brazil	A tragic hostage case from 2008 Brazil unfolds through unseen diary entries, family interviews, and media coverage, as a 15-year-old girl is held captive by her ex-boyfriend for 100 hours while TV networks broadcast it live.
The Storytellers	2,003	Eliane Caffé	Drama	7.3	25	Portuguese	Brazil	A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.
The Beginning of Life	2,016	Estela Renner	Documentary	7.3	22	Portuguese	Brazil	One of the greatest neuroscience breakthroughs is having discovered that babies are far more than a genetic load. The development of all human beings lies on the combination of genetics, the quality of the relationships and the environment they are set on. The Beginning of Life invites everyone to reflect: are we taking good care of this unique moment, which defines both the present and future of humankind?
Pureza	2,022	Renato Barbieri	Drama	7.3	21	Portuguese	Brazil	"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.
Hermanoteu na Terra de Godah: O Filme	2,021	Homero Olivetto	Comedy	7.3	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Hermanoteu is a young shepherd boy who, enlightened by the "Divine Light", travels to the land of Godah to free the people from the oppressive hands of cruel tyrants. A comedy based on the hugely successful play "Hermanoteu in the Land of Godah" by the Brazilian theater company "The Best of the World".
Perfumed Ball	1,997	Paulo Caldas	Drama, History	7.3	20	Portuguese	Brazil	A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.
The Best Summer of Our Lives	2,020	Adolpho Knauth	Comedy	7.3	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Three girls are invited to participate in a music festival in their summer. However, they discover that they are in summer school, so they need to find a way to go to the musical festival without their parents finding out.
CineMagia: The Story of São Paulo's Video Stores	2,017	Alan Oliveira	Documentary	7.3	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.
Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi 4: Meninos e Meninas	2,009	José Marcio Nicolosi	Animation, Family, Comedy	7.3	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Franjinha, the inventor kid in Monica's gang, tired of reading the comics, invents a new device to read the stories: a kind of a story-processor, that swallows the printed pages and projects the scenes in movement, on the wall.
Peacetime	2,009	Daniel Filho	Drama, History	7.3	15	Portuguese	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1945. Brazil's foreign policy aligns closely with that of the United States and opens a brief period of democratic rule after the end of World War 2. For years, hundreds of people were arrested and tortured by the Vargas regime. But with the external pressure, several political prisoners gain freedom.
Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi 5: Luz, Câmera, Ação!	2,010	Mauricio de Sousa	Animation, Family, Comedy	7.3	14	Portuguese	Brazil	In the fifth installment of the Cine Gibi series, Smudge and Jimmy Five find themselves engaged in a lively debate over the ultimate action film. Seeking a resolution, they turn to their friend Franklin, known for his inventive prowess, to organize yet another round of projected comic book film sessions using his colossal blender.
As Aventuras da Turma da Mônica	1,982	Mauricio de Sousa	Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family	7.3	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Embarking on a whimsical adventure, Monica and her friends take center stage in four captivating tales. The first, "O Plano Infalível," showcases Jimmy Five's latest scheme to defeat Monica and her indomitable bunny companion. In "Um Amor de Ratinho," Monica attends a costume party dressed as a mouse, unaware that a small mishap would awaken a genuine mouse's affectionate feelings towards her. The third story, "A Ermitã," sees Monica bid farewell to her friends, venturing alone into the heart of the forest to live an independent life. Lastly, in "O Império Empacota," Jimmy Five's courage and true affection for Monica are unveiled when he fearlessly engages in an interplanetary battle against aliens, all in an effort to save his beloved big-toothed friend.
Me Sinto Bem Com Você	2,021	Matheus Souza	Drama, Romance, Comedy	7.3	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Five stories of love in times of quarantine. Five differently shaped love stories, from five different origins. Five stories about the importance of being with someone who makes you feel good in the midst of chaos. People, during these times of social isolation, doing everything possible to stay close. A film about connection: virtual and real.
Dona Lurdes: O Filme	2,024	Cristiano Marques	Comedy, Drama	7.3	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Dona Lurdes is a mother and housewife who is suffering from empty nest syndrome when her last child leaves home. To escape her loneliness, she goes in search of new ways to fill her days and her life. Due to her thirst for new things, Dona Lurdes will live new experiences, build friendships and new love.
The Hills of Disorder	2,006	Andrea Tonacci	Documentary	7.3	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building a new life for himself with the help some sympathetic settlers. However, after rebuilding his life Carapiru is uprooted once again, this time by government agents. A expressive visual storytelling in this study of the native peoples of Brazil in the 21st century.
Babilônia 2000	2,001	Eduardo Coutinho	Documentary	7.3	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.
Jaime	1,974	António Reis	Documentary	7.3	10	Portuguese	Portugal	Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.
The Man from the Future	2,011	Cláudio Torres	Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance	7.2	381	Portuguese	Brazil	Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.
The Ten Commandments: The Movie	2,016	Alexandre Avancini	Drama	7.2	307	Portuguese	Brazil	Follows Moses leading and conducting the Hebrew people from the slavery of Egypt to the freedom towards the Promised Land according to the Ancient Testament Bible book of the Exodus. The story told like never before is faithful to the Scriptures.
Astral City: A Spiritual Journey	2,010	Wagner de Assis	Drama	7.2	228	Portuguese	Brazil	The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting
Last Stop 174	2,008	Bruno Barreto	Drama, Crime	7.2	187	Portuguese	Brazil	Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
The Clown	2,011	Selton Mello	Comedy, Drama	7.2	186	Portuguese	Brazil	The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Tim Maia	2,014	Mauro Lima	Drama, Music, History	7.2	165	Portuguese	Brazil	Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
Elis	2,016	Hugo Prata	Drama	7.2	124	Portuguese	Brazil	The film tells the story of the energetic and pulsating singer Elis Regina since her arrival in Rio de Janeiro at age 19 until her tragic and early death. Despite all the difficulties, success comes fulminant and the life of Elis Regina gained national and international recognition, becoming undoubtedly considered today the greatest Brazilian singer of all time.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation	2,006	Cao Hamburger	Drama	7.2	120	Portuguese	Brazil	A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Gonzaga: From Father to Son	2,012	Breno Silveira	Drama, History, Music	7.2	98	Portuguese	Brazil	Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury	2,013	Luiz Bolognesi	Animation, Drama, History, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy	7.2	91	Portuguese	Brazil	“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
Traces of Love	2,024	Pedro Antônio	Comedy, Romance, Fantasy	7.2	71	Portuguese	Brazil	On a random night, Marco and Laura meet at a karaoke bar and sing the song "Evidências" together. Since then, they fell in love and formed a couple that seemed perfect, until the moment they said “yes”. Without understanding what happened, now, every time this song plays, Marco will travel through his memories with Laura.
M8 - When Death Rescues Life	2,019	Jeferson De	Drama, Thriller	7.2	52	Portuguese	Brazil	When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.
Horse Money	2,014	Pedro Costa	Drama	7.2	50	Portuguese	Portugal	While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Desenrola	2,011	Rosane Svartman	Romance, Comedy	7.2	42	Portuguese	Brazil	Priscila thinks she is too uptight. When her mother goes on a trip she decides to use her temporary freedom to deal with her uptightness.
Verônica	2,009	Maurício Farias	Action, Crime	7.2	40	Portuguese	Brazil	When a teacher takes one of her students to his home in the slum, she discovers that drug traffickers have killed the child's parents and are looking for the boy.
VIPs: Histórias Reais de um Mentiroso	2,010	Mariana Caltabiano	Documentary	7.2	35	Portuguese	Brazil	The infamous anti-hero Marcelo Nascimento da Rocha is one of the greatest Brazilian con artists ever that has lured several persons with his schemes. The director and writer Mariana Caltabiano proposes to write his biography and to make a documentary about his life, and she is also lured by the swindler that discloses his rise and fall.
Cold Tropics	2,009	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Science Fiction	7.2	33	Portuguese	Brazil	In tropical Recife, in northeastern Brazil, temperatures drop to impossible lows and the inhabitants have to adapt. This 'mockumentary' gradually turns critical, looking at the climate, urban development and social interaction from every angle. Does a ray of sun pierce the clouds, after all?
Pelé Forever	2,004	Anibal Massaini Neto	Documentary	7.2	33	Portuguese	Brazil	The life of the "King of Football" Pelé is shown through testimonials from former players, friends and important celebrities of the time. Following a chronological order, several of his goals, key moves and facts that marked his career are displayed.
Alice	2,005	Marco Martins	Drama, Romance	7.2	32	Portuguese	Portugal	In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.
The Lion from Estrela	1,947	Arthur Duarte	Comedy, Romance	7.2	23	Portuguese	Portugal	Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting CP, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
Change of Life	1,967	Paulo Rocha	Drama	7.2	20	Portuguese	Portugal	After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.
Power Alley	2,023	Lillah Halla	Drama	7.2	18	Portuguese	Brazil	On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising 17-year-old volleyball player Sofia is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but neither Sofia nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervor of the swarm.
The Machine	2,006	João Falcão	Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction, Romance	7.2	18	Portuguese	Brazil	In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political conditions threaten to block life, and love plays the part of the transforming element.
The Spousals of God	1,999	João César Monteiro	Comedy	7.2	18	Portuguese	Portugal	After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Jeca Tatu	1,959	Milton Amaral	Comedy	7.2	18	Portuguese	Brazil	Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner.
Come and Go	2,003	João César Monteiro	Drama, Comedy	7.2	16	Portuguese	Portugal	João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
Turn It Up, It's Rock 'n' Roll	2,024	Tomás Portella	Comedy, Drama	7.2	15	Portuguese	Brazil	The film tells the story of Luiz Antônio, a clumsy radio host, who unexpectedly finds himself in charge of a bankrupt radio station. Relying only on his passion for rock'n'roll and a crazy team, he creates one of the most emblematic radio stations in the history of Brazilian rock, Fluminense FM. Among guitar solos and radio signal interferences, we follow the adventures misadventures of Luiz.
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth	2,005	Vicente Ferraz	Documentary, History	7.2	15	Portuguese	Brazil	Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for decades until its reintroduction as a "classic" in the 1990s. Vicente Ferraz explores the strange history of this cinematic tour de force, and the deeper meaning for those who participated in its creation.
Rend Your Heart	2,018	Jorge Furtado	Drama	7.2	13	Portuguese	Brazil	40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
The Immortals	2,003	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Crime, Drama	7.2	13	Portuguese	Portugal	Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and rem...
Boleiros: Era uma Vez o Futebol...	1,998	Ugo Giorgetti	Drama	7.2	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Tribute to the world of soccer in Brazil. Group of ex-soccer players gather in a bar in São Paulo to remember old stories of their prime.
Benilde or the Virgin Mother	1,975	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7.2	13	Portuguese	Portugal	A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.
A Bruddah's Mind	2,021	Déo Cardoso	Drama	7.2	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Leader of the student union, Saulo is the target of racist curses inside the classroom. When he retaliates, he is called to the principal's office, but refuses to suffer the consequences of the attack alone, since the aggressor is not responsible for his speech. Inspired by readings about the Black Panthers, the boy decides to stay in school until justice is done. Meanwhile, he exposes the neglect of the establishment's structure with his cell phone. Gradually, colleagues, teachers, directors and even politicians get involved in the conflict that is highlighted in the media.
Bang Bang	1,971	Andrea Tonacci	Comedy, Fantasy, Crime	7.2	12	Portuguese	Brazil	An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.
Tá Escrito	2,023	Matheus Souza	Comedy, Romance	7.2	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Alice is an insecure Leo girl who thinks the stars have made a mistake with her, until one day she receives a blank book with only instructions that promise that any astrological prediction written on those pages will come true. With the power to influence everyone with the predictions she now has access to, Alice becomes an online phenomenon, but also turns the world around her upside down.
Nossa Chape	2,018	Michael Zimbalist	Documentary	7.2	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Nossa Chape tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, and left all but three of the players dead.
Life Is a Bitch	2,018	Julia Rezende	Comedy	7.2	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Lonely, frustrated, and unable to do anything that gives meaning to their lives, Vladimir, Clivia, Regina and Primo trace an absurd plan: to kidnap a millionaire. Yet, they have no experience with crime or any notion of what this kind operation entails. As they take practical steps forward, their fears and ambitions are revealed.
Songs	2,011	Eduardo Coutinho	Documentary, Music	7.2	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the director engages his subjects in conversation about the song they picked. The end product is deeply personal stories about music and its intimate connection to memory, love, loss, self-discovery, regret, death, and life.
How Good to See You Alive	1,989	Lúcia Murat	Drama, Documentary, History	7.2	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Four years after a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systematic practice. Using a mix of fiction and documentary this extraordinary film is a searing record of personal memory, political repression and the will to survive. Interviews with eight women who were political prisoners during the military dictatorship are framed by the fantasies and imaginings of an anonymous character, portrayed by actress Irene Ravache.
Trails	1,978	João César Monteiro	Drama, Fantasy	7.2	10	Portuguese	Portugal	Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Aldeia da Roupa Branca	1,939	Chianca de Garcia	Music, Comedy, Family	7.2	10	Portuguese	Portugal	Gracinda, a young laundry washer, lives with her godfather, "Uncle" Jacinto, and together they run a family business, doing the laundry for residents of Lisbon in their small village in the outskirts of that city (Canecas). Unfortunately, the business is not going very well, but that changes when Gracinda decides to go to the city to try to convince Chico, "Uncle" Jacinto's son, with whom she is in love, to return to the village and give new life to the business. The village is preparing for the annual festivities and a dispute erupts between "Uncle" Jacinto and his business rival , the widow Quiteria, when each of them invites different bands to play at the same time during the party and dances
7 Prisoners	2,021	Alexandre Moratto	Drama, Crime	7.1	369	Portuguese	Brazil	An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
My Name Ain't Johnny	2,008	Mauro Lima	Crime, Drama	7.1	276	Portuguese	Brazil	The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop	2,004	Walter Carvalho	Drama, Music, History	7.1	242	Portuguese	Brazil	Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.
Neighboring Sounds	2,012	Kleber Mendonça Filho	Thriller, Drama, Crime	7.1	237	Portuguese	Brazil	An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
Olga	2,004	Jayme Monjardim	Drama, History, War	7.1	199	Portuguese	Brazil	Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
Ana e Vitória	2,018	Matheus Souza	Romance, Comedy, Music	7.1	174	Portuguese	Brazil	Two girls have a chance encounter and instantly befriend. While trying to find themselves, they decide to pursue music together.
Black God, White Devil	1,964	Glauber Rocha	Adventure, Western, Drama	7.1	164	Portuguese	Brazil	Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.
Basic Sanitation, the Movie	2,007	Jorge Furtado	Comedy	7.1	135	Portuguese	Brazil	When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Limite	1,931	Mário Peixoto	Drama, Adventure	7.1	117	Portuguese	Brazil	Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, they find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another. As they delve into their personal narratives, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to this desolate predicament, they navigate through the depths of three distinct destinies. Bound by the confines of their shared space, every aspect of their existence becomes a boundary, underscoring their plight.
Just Like Our Parents	2,017	Laís Bodanzky	Drama	7.1	99	Portuguese	Brazil	Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really is.
Chico Xavier	2,010	Daniel Filho	Drama	7.1	95	Portuguese	Brazil	A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
Everything for a Pop Star	2,018	Bruno Garotti	Comedy, Romance	7.1	88	Portuguese	Brazil	The pop band Slavabody Disco Disco Boys, a fever among girls from all over Brazil, announces that it will play in Rio de Janeiro. Gabi, Manu and Ritinha will do everything they can to watch the show far from the city where they live.
The Blue Trail	2,025	Gabriel Mascaro	Drama, Science Fiction, Comedy	7.1	76	Portuguese	Brazil	In the name of economic recovery, the Brazilian Government created a perennial system of compulsory vertical isolation for seniors over 80 to be confined in a colony. Teca is 77 and lives in the village of Muriti, in the Amazon, when she is surprised by the announcement of the age reduction, including her age group. Cornered, Teca makes an intriguing journey hidden from the officers amidst rivers, boats and the underworld to clandestinely try to fulfill her last dream, to take a plane ride.
She Said, He Said	2,019	Claudia Castro	Comedy, Romance	7.1	62	Portuguese	Brazil	Rosa (Duda Matte) is dedicated to study, Leo (Marcus Bessa) is a good soccer player. She is always on time, he is always late. She hates Julia (Maisa), the most popular girl in high school, he kind of likes her. They are both new students at school and, besides having to learn how to deal with new friends and family problems, they find out that they have much more in common than they thought. Based on the successful book by Thalita Rebouças, they will find that growing up may seem complicated but deep down it's a great adventure.
Foreign Land	1,996	Walter Salles	Drama, Thriller, Romance	7.1	58	Portuguese	Brazil	During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.
All the Reasons to Forget	2,017	Pedro Coutinho	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.1	57	Portuguese	Brazil	After ending his long-term relationship, Antonio is sure that he can quickly get over Sofia. But nothing is as simple as it seems. And realizing the impossibility of controlling his own feelings, he begins to boycott them, using all sorts of contemporary palliative measures to free himself from the memories of his ex: cognitive psychoanalysis, prescription drugs, Tinder, among others. Ergo, Antonio will go through several tragicomic situations.
Hebe	2,019	Maurício Farias	Drama, History	7.1	55	Portuguese	Brazil	Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.
Time and the Wind	2,013	Jayme Monjardim	Drama, History, War	7.1	55	Portuguese	Brazil	Based on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
California	2,015	Marina Person	Drama	7.1	48	Portuguese	Brazil	The year is 1984. Estela is going through the turbulent phase of adolescence. Sex, lovers, friendships; everything seems very complicated. Her uncle Carlos is her hero, and visiting him in California is her biggest dream. But everything collapses when he returns thin, weak and ill. Between crises and discoveries, Estela will face a reality that will forever change her way of seeing the world.
To the Left of the Father	2,001	Luiz Fernando Carvalho	Romance, Drama	7.1	43	Portuguese	Brazil	In 1940s São Paulo, Pedro’s tasked to retrieve his estranged brother André. André’s departure stems from a domineering father, an overly affectionate mother, and Pedro’s jealousy over the father’s favoritism. Further complicating matters is André’s unconventional relationship with their sister, Ana.
Whindersson Nunes: My Own Show!	2,022	Renata Shoel	Comedy	7.1	41	Portuguese	Brazil	Comedian Whindersson Nunes brings his quirky impersonations and streetwise takes on different cultures to the historic stage of Teatro Amazonas.
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You	2,010	Karim Aïnouz	Drama	7.1	41	Portuguese	Brazil	José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.
Tavern Man	2,012	Aki Kaurismäki	Drama, Comedy	7.1	34	Portuguese	Finland	A typical day in the life of a lonely man who works in an unsuccessful tavern located in the historical center of Guimarães, an old town in Portugal. During the day, the man spends his time coming up with new menu items for his tavern, while at night he gets ready to meet someone special.
The Deceased	1,965	Leon Hirszman	Drama	7.1	33	Portuguese	Brazil	After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
Breaking the Taboo	2,011	Fernando Grostein Andrade	Documentary	7.1	32	Portuguese	Brazil	Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years
Lost Sofia	2,023	Katherine Chediak Putnam	Romance, Fantasy, Comedy	7.1	31	Portuguese	Brazil	A modern and independent girl, but when it comes to love, the only novels in her life are those from Jane Austen's literary universe. After using a borrowed cell phone, something mysterious happens and she is transported to a different world, which resembles the 19th century. Sofia is taken in by the family of the charming Ian Clarke, while desperately trying to find a way to return to her life. What she didn't know is that her heart had other plans.
Mussum: Um Filme do Cacildis	2,019	Susanna Lira	Documentary, Music	7.1	31	Portuguese	Brazil	The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
Blood of My Blood	2,011	João Canijo	Drama	7.1	31	Portuguese	Portugal	A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
The Priest and the Girl	1,966	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	Romance, Drama	7.1	31	Portuguese	Brazil	In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.
The Wrung-Out Man	1,980	João Batista de Andrade	Drama	7.1	30	Portuguese	Brazil	Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
A Menina Índigo	2,017	Wagner de Assis	Drama	7.1	24	Portuguese	Brazil	Unlike the other children, Sophie discovers in the midst of her abilities to paint the gift of being able to cure illnesses. The news spreads and reaches the hands of a tabloid journalist. To protect the girl, her separated parents need to unite.
The Garden of Afflictions	2,017	Josias Teófilo	Documentary	7.1	24	Portuguese	Brazil	Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho's thinking, presented through his presence, his daily work routine and his family life in Virginia (USA).
Antes Que Eu Me Esqueça	2,017	Tiago Arakilian	Drama	7.1	23	Portuguese	Brazil	At 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become owner of a strip club.
Especial de Ano Todo com Clarice Falcão	2,017	Joana Mazucchelli	Comedy	7.1	20	Portuguese	Brazil	Multitalented performer Clarice Falcão packs a year of ideas into one special with songs, skits and jokes dedicated to each month on the calendar.
The Cambridge Squatter	2,017	Eliane Caffé	Drama, Documentary	7.1	20	Portuguese	Brazil	The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.
Your Turn	2,019	Eliza Capai	Documentary	7.1	18	Portuguese	Brazil	When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.
Redemption	2,013	Miguel Gomes	History, Documentary	7.1	18	Portuguese	Germany	On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13, 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6, 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3, 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head. But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?
Tropicália	2,012	Marcelo Machado	Music, Documentary	7.1	18	Portuguese	Brazil	Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.
Doomed Love	1,979	Manoel de Oliveira	Romance, Drama	7.1	18	Portuguese	Portugal	A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Copacabana Mon Amour	1,970	Rogério Sganzerla	Drama, Comedy	7.1	18	Portuguese	Brazil	Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.
Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta	2,025	João Wainer	Documentary, Music	7.1	17	Portuguese	Brazil	Brazilian pop star Anitta reveals her most intimate world yet in this documentary that explores her dual identity, personal struggles and search for joy.
Cemetery of Lost Souls	2,020	Rodrigo Aragão	Fantasy, Horror	7.1	17	Portuguese	Brazil	Corrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they be cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die	2,020	Bárbara Paz	Documentary	7.1	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
Toll	2,023	Carolina Markowicz	Drama	7.1	15	Portuguese	Brazil	Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. But only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop.
Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi 6: Hora do Banho	2,013	José Marcio Nicolosi	Animation, Family, Comedy	7.1	15	Portuguese	Brazil	Cascão's smell gets out of hand, and the gang decides to give him a good bath. So, he decides to hide in the movie theater. In the dark, Cascão uses a shadow trick to fool Franjinha and pretend to be Cebolinha.
The Hunt	1,964	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7.1	15	Portuguese	Portugal	Two friends decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather a number of men that were in the vicinity. They form a human chain to pull the victim out, but their affliction mounts, as they have no strategy for doing it, and they can't understand each other.
Mauricio Meirelles: Generating Chaos	2,020	Diego Pignataro	Comedy	7.1	14	Portuguese	Brazil	He's mid-30s going on 79, with scathingly funny views on fatherhood, marriage and society. Let Maurício Meirelles give you a tour of his chaotic mind.
Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos	2,000	Aramis Barros	Music, Family	7.1	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Xuxa presents a series of musical educational videos dedicated exclusively to a new, much younger generation of kids.
The Best Friend	2,025	Allan Deberton	Drama, Romance, Music	7.1	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Two great friends meet again after five years. Among so many things that have changed, the resumption of the bond awakens an old feeling for which they remain unprepared.
Os Quatro Paralamas	2,020	Paschoal Samora	Documentary	7.1	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Mixing archival footage and interviews with the band and its crew, this film celebrates the 40-year history of legendary rockers Paralamas do Sucesso.
The Telescope of Time	2,014	Alceu Valença	Drama, Music	7.1	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Musical drama that uses popular myths of Brazilian culture to narrate a story full of meetings and misunderstandings, betrayals and loves, crimes and punishments. Against the backdrop of the Pernambuco backlands – its people and its culture, the cordel, the bandits, the cinema and the circus – the film is a universal drama, laden with unique poetry, where reality and the dreamworld mingle.
Hotel Atlântico	2,009	Suzana Amaral	Drama	7.1	12	Portuguese	Brazil	A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.
How Angels are Born	1,996	Murilo Salles	Drama, Crime	7.1	12	Portuguese	Brazil	Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter.
Ritmo de Natal	2,023	Allan Fiterman	Romance, Comedy, TV Movie	7.1	11	Portuguese	Brazil
City of Men	2,007	Paulo Morelli	Drama	7	290	Portuguese	Brazil	Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Black Orpheus	1,959	Marcel Camus	Drama, Romance	7	228	Portuguese	Brazil	Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This	2,007	Monique Gardenberg	Music, Comedy	7	198	Portuguese	Brazil	During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Tabu	2,012	Miguel Gomes	Drama, Romance	7	174	Portuguese	Brazil	Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
The Nightshifter	2,019	Dennison Ramalho	Thriller, Horror, Mystery	7	158	Portuguese	Brazil	Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
Drained	2,006	Heitor Dhalia	Comedy	7	149	Portuguese	Brazil	A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
Operation Carwash: A Worldwide Corruption Scandal Made in Brazil	2,017	Marcelo Antunez	Action, Thriller, Crime	7	111	Portuguese	Brazil	2013. During Operation Bidone, the Federal Police seized a truck loaded with palm heart, which contained 697 kg of cocaine. The investigation falls on the team assembled by Ivan Romano, based in Curitiba and composed by Beatriz, Júlio and Ítalo. The traffic connections lead them to the dower Alberto Youssef and later to the former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa, who reveals an immense structure involving builders and the government, in order to divert public money. As the investigation progresses, the group led by Ivan is increasingly approaching some of the country's most influential politicians.
Head Over Heels 3	2,019	Julia Rezende	Comedy	7	86	Portuguese	Brazil	Alice Segretto is more agitated than ever. The success of her chain of stores Sexy Delícia takes the businesswoman on a tour around the world. Working endlessly, Alice realizes that she has not been able to keep up with her family, which has also grown. Conflict sets in: how to reconcile this insane life with her family? Impetuously, Alice makes a curious decision, deciding to retire and hand over the business to her mother. But when a competitor comes up with a plan to steal the scene, Alice's life is once again flipped legs in the air.
Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree	2,025	Fernando Fraiha	Family, Adventure, Comedy	7	85	Portuguese	Brazil	Chuck Billy has spent his life picking guavas from Jed’s guava tree. But now that Dr. Agripino is going to build a road that will take down the tree, Chuck and his friends are going to do everything they can to stop it.
Bald Mountain	2,013	Heitor Dhalia	Drama, Western	7	66	Portuguese	Brazil	In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse	1,967	José Mojica Marins	Horror, Thriller, Fantasy	7	63	Portuguese	Brazil	Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.
Father’s Chair	2,012	Luciano Moura	Drama	7	60	Portuguese	Brazil	Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself.
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One	2,015	Miguel Gomes	Drama	7	55	Portuguese	Germany	Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.
Minha Irmã e Eu	2,023	Susana Garcia	Comedy	7	52	Portuguese	Brazil	Sisters Mirian and Mirelly were born in the interior of Goiás, but live in different cities. When their mother disappears, the two put aside their differences and come together to look for her, on a journey that could change their lives.
492: A Man Called Death	2,017	Henrique Goldman	Drama, Crime	7	51	Portuguese	Brazil	The story of Júlio Santana, a professional killer who was responsible for almost 500 hundred murders in Brazil.
Proof of Love	2,022	Marcelo Antunez	Comedy, Romance	7	47	Portuguese	Brazil	Alicia is a rich young woman who loves to party, travel and is very close to her grandfather. The protagonist runs away from responsibilities and tries to make the most of the benefits of being the heir to an immense estate. When her grandfather dies, she discovers that she has been excluded from the will and will only be able to get her hands on the family business and money when she is mature enough and married.
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One	2,015	Miguel Gomes	Drama	7	43	Portuguese	France	Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!
Laerte-se	2,017	Lygia Barbosa da Silva	Documentary	7	41	Portuguese	Brazil	In this film, Laerte conjugates the body in the feminine, and scrutinizes concepts and prejudices. Not in search of an identity, but in search of un-identities. Laerte creates and sends creatures to face reality in the fictional world of comic strips as a vanguard of the self. And, on the streets, the one who becomes the fiction of a real character. Laerte, of all the bodies, and of none, complicates all binaries. In following Laerte, this documentary chooses to clothe the nudity beyond the skin we inhabit.
Angels of the Sun	2,006	Rudi Lagemann	Drama	7	39	Portuguese	Brazil	In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the Amazon gold fields and put to work by the despicable Saraiva.
Rio, 100 Degrees F°	1,955	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	Drama	7	39	Portuguese	Brazil	On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city. As they navigate the various districts of Rio, they bear witness to a series of unfortunate events and encounters, unfolding a vivid tapestry of urban life in Rio de Janeiro during that period. These true misadventures shed light on the gritty reality of the city, unveiling its vibrant urban tapestry.
Durval Discos	2,002	Anna Muylaert	Drama, Comedy, Music, Thriller	7	38	Portuguese	Brazil	Eccentric Durval is a bit like the record shop he operates with his mother: rundown and pathetic. When their home becomes too much for his mother to care for, Durval hires a maid who no sooner disappears, leaving a young girl and a note behind.
Lucio Flavio	1,977	Héctor Babenco	Crime, Drama	7	38	Portuguese	Brazil	Story of Brazilian bank-robber Lúcio Flávio, who fascinated some people in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s for his bold robberies and spectacular escapes, and also because he was thought to be intelligent and "politically aware". Before dying, he disclosed a network of corruption in Brazilian Police, and its involvement with the infamous "Death Squad" of the time, a group of policemen who went about killing criminals without giving them a fair trial.
Tarantino's Mind	2,006	Bernardo Dutra	TV Movie, Comedy	7	37	Portuguese	Brazil	Two friends at a bar talking about theories involving Quentin Tarantino's movies.
Working on the Douro River	1,931	Manoel de Oliveira	Documentary	7	37	Portuguese	Portugal	Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.
The Kiss	1,981	Bruno Barreto	Crime, Thriller, Drama	7	34	Portuguese	Brazil	When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.
Francisca	1,981	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama	7	34	Portuguese	Portugal	The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Men and Women	1,964	Walter Hugo Khouri	Drama	7	31	Portuguese	Brazil	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.
An Unforgettable Year - Winter	2,023	Caroline Fioratti	Drama, Romance	7	30	Portuguese	Brazil	Instead of joining the graduation trip with her friends, Mabel is forced to travel with her parents to a ski station in Chile. Only she didn't expect this freezing retreat could introduce her to a secret group of friends and a potential new love.
Macho Man	2,020	Pedro Amorim	Comedy	7	30	Portuguese	Brazil	Carlão is a prejudiced man who works in a car dealership with Cadinho, Zeca and Antunes. In conversations between them, Carlão always boasts of being the greatest soccer and mechanics savvy, all amidst macho and homophobic jokes. When Evaristo is the target of such verbal assaults, he pursues him and locks him in a magic locker. From there comes Carlinhos, a homosexual alter ego that takes over Carlão's body when night comes.
Jaime	1,999	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Drama	7	29	Portuguese	Portugal	A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
The Green Years	1,963	Paulo Rocha	Drama	7	28	Portuguese	Portugal	Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.
Balas & Bolinhos: O Último Capítulo	2,012	Luís Ismael	Action, Adventure, Comedy	7	26	Portuguese	Portugal	One tries to con. Another keeps stealing. And there's even someone that doesn't know what he's doing... The truth is life is hard for Cultara, Rato and Bino. But it all changes when Tone, the man of the world, returns home to save his dad on the deathbed. And when the four get together, they leave for the most surprising adventure yet. If everything was bad, it's about to get worst!
Redeemer	2,004	Cláudio Torres	Drama, Fantasy	7	25	Portuguese	Brazil	Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
Chain Reaction	2,021	Márcio Garcia	Action	7	23	Portuguese	Brazil	A peaceful accountant, after find again a love of youth, discovers a big embezzlement in the company where he works. Thanks to the fact, he ends up involving in a corruption network that supplies the Brazilian politician system .
The Tumbling Trapalhões: Heading to Hollywood	2,017	João Daniel Tikhomiroff	Comedy, Music, Family	7	22	Portuguese	Brazil	Since the ban on use of animals in circus shows, the Great Sumatra Circus faces a major financial crisis. Baron, who owns the circus, accepts unseemly proposals from the mayor to hold cattle auctions, rallies and other alternative events at the circus. Unhappy with the news, circus artists come together to plan a new show and re-attract the audience, led by Didi, Dedé and Karina.
Behave	2,007	Maria Ramos	Documentary	7	22	Portuguese	Brazil	In Rio de Janeiro, over many days, the director Maria Ramos witnesses and films the judgment of several teenagers accused of stealing, trafficking and murdering. Underage youths are protected by the Brazilian laws and their faces can not be exposed; therefore, they are replaced by teenagers from poor communities.
The Domain	2,019	Tiago Guedes	Drama, History	7	21	Portuguese	France	The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940's to these days.
Bixa Travesty	2,019	Kiko Goifman	Documentary	7	21	Portuguese	Brazil	A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.
Xica	1,976	Carlos Diegues	History, Drama, Comedy	7	21	Portuguese	Brazil	The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.
Vazante	2,017	Daniela Thomas	Drama	7	20	Portuguese	Portugal	Brazil 1821. Upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a rich cattle herder, finds out that his wife dies in labor. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife's niece. A restless soul, he returns to droving, leaving his young wife behind alone with the slaves.
Alone Man	2,016	Cláudia Jouvin	Science Fiction, Drama, Romance	7	20	Portuguese	Brazil	The film tells the story of Arnaldo, that to get rid of his miserable life, seeks of a clinic that promises to copy people. With a copy occupying his place, he would take a new life. But, when having his request denied, Arnaldo has no choice but to try and change the course of his history. When he falls in love with Josie, the clerk of a pet cemetery, Arnaldo believes that he found a chance to finally be happy. But maybe he's wrong. A Lone Man is an urban fable that addresses the complexity of relationships, with a good dose of irony, and humor.
De Onde Eu Te Vejo	2,015	Luiz Villaça	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7	20	Portuguese	Brazil	After 20 years of marriage, Ana Lúcia and her husband Fábio decide to get a divorce. Fábio, however, decides to move to an apartment across the street, in front of the window of his former apartment - where Lúcia still lives. Both will have to learn how to deal with job crisis, problems with their daughter and this whole new situation.
Data Limite segundo Chico Xavier	2,014	Fabio Medeiros	Documentary	7	20	Portuguese	Brazil	UFO experts claim that after the explosion of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was an increase in the number of sightings of UFO'S (Unidentified Flying Objects) worldwide. Just over two decades later, the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier confided to close friends that when man reached the moon on July 20, 1969, happened a meeting with the celestial beings of our solar system to check the progress of humanity. They decided to grant a period of 50 years for humanity to evolve morally and live in peace, without provoking a third world war. If we live in peace until the Deadline, humanity would be ready to enter a new era of its existence, and magnificent feats would be checked everywhere, including our brothers from other planets would be expressly authorized to present themselves publicly and officially to Earth's residents.
Pro Dia Nascer Feliz	2,006	João Jardim	Documentary	7	18	Portuguese	Brazil	"Pro Dia Nascer Feliz" é o segundo longa-metragem do diretor João Jardim, diretor do cultuado documentário "Janela da Alma" que, em 2002, bateu recordes de público no gênero. Através de uma investigação do relacionamento do adolescente com a escola - ambiente fundamental em sua formação - o diretor traz à tona, além de questões comuns a qualquer adolescente dentro do ambiente escolar, questões como a desigualdade social e o impacto da banalização da violência no desenvolvimento de muitos desses jovens.
The Patient	2,018	Sérgio Rezende	Drama, History	7	17	Portuguese	Brazil	The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
Joaquim	2,017	Marcelo Gomes	Drama, History	7	17	Portuguese	Portugal	Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
Letters from War	2,016	Ivo M. Ferreira	Drama, War	7	17	Portuguese	Portugal	In 1971, António Lobo Antunes' life is brutally interrupted when he is drafted into the Portuguese Army to serve as a doctor in one of the worst zones of the Colonial War – the East of Angola. Away from everything dear he writes letters to his wife while he is immersed in an increasingly violent setting. While he moves between several military posts he falls in love for Africa and matures politically. At his side, an entire generation struggles and despairs for the return home. In the uncertainty of war events, only the letters can make him survive.
Fados	2,007	Carlos Saura	Music, Documentary	7	17	Portuguese	Portugal	A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.
Restless Love	2,016	Vera Egito	Drama, Comedy	7	15	Portuguese	Brazil	São Paulo best friends Julia, Micaela and Diego enter their thirties entirely unprepared for the considerations of adult maturity. Julia has chosen to remain blind to the obvious signs that her current boyfriend is a two-timing cad, but her eyes are forced wide-open when she discovers that she is pregnant with his child. Diego is a party boy with daddy issues who can’t stay faithful to his sweet, dependable boyfriend. Micaela, meanwhile, is wasting her time chasing a bisexual actress who won’t even acknowledge their shared intimacy in private. As these three charismatic but troubled friends keep spinning their wheels, even their own chosen-family bonds get stress-tested to their breaking point.
Turma da Mônica em Cine Gibi 7: Bagunça Animal	2,014	José Marcio Nicolosi	Animation, Family, Comedy	7	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Trying to escape his bath, Monicão ends up hiding in the movie theater. Mônica can't find her pet in the dark, so she asks Franjinha to play some short films that might lure the dog out of hiding.
Play a Song for Me	2,009	Esmir Filho	Drama	7	13	Portuguese	Brazil	In a small town in the countryside in the south of Brazil, a teenager that uses the codename Mr. Tambourine Man spends his time in Internet, at school, smoking pot with his best friend Diego and with his dysfunctional mother. He dreams on leaving his hometown to watch a Bob Dylan's show but seems to be hopeless stranded in the spot.
December	2,008	Selton Mello	Drama	7	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a long time: himself.
The Dance of the Paroxysms	1,929	Jorge Brum do Canto	Drama, Fantasy	7	11	Portuguese	Portugal	This film tells the story of Gonthramm, a young knight who sought in vain for the Holy Grail and, on the way back to join his bride, Galeswithe, is met by Queen Banschi in the nightmarish realm of the Sylphs. Brum do Canto based the story on Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle's Les Elfes.
Yuri Marçal: Honest Mistake	2,022	Fabio Ock	Comedy	7	10	Portuguese	Unknown	From sharing his unique views on family, race and religion to detailing an online rift that blew up, Brazilian comedian Yuri Marçal isn't holding back.
Curral	2,021	Marcelo Brennand	Drama	7	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Curral is a political drama set in the rural Brazilian city of Gravatá. During the mayoral elections, the population is divided between the Blue and Red parties, two political oligarchies fighting each other for power. A recent severe drought means water is the main bargaining chip when it comes to securing a majority of people's votes. Chico Caixa is a former city employee. He lost his job trying to take water supplies to a poor neighborhood which had been abandoned for political reasons. Caixa is invited by a childhood partner, Joel, to work on his councilor campaign. Joel presents himself as a new alternative to the older candidates, who have been in power for decades. But as the campaign progresses, Chico Caixa soon realizes that breaking apart from the established political game is not always as easy as it may seem
The Corinthian	1,967	Milton Amaral	Comedy	7	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Manuel is a fanatical barber for a São Paulo soccer team, Corinthians, and that's why he always gets into trouble with his neighbors and family.
Get the Goat	2,021	Vitor Brandt	Action, Comedy, Crime	6.9	209	Portuguese	Brazil	Bruceuilis, a policeman from the countryside, is assigned to rescue Celestina, a goat considered heritage of his small city, and travels to São Paulo. There, he meets police clerk Trindade, who decides to venture out into the field, even though it is not his specialty.
The Beachnickers	2,018	Roberto Santucci	Comedy	6.9	197	Portuguese	Brazil	Things go from bad to worse when four co-workers decide to enjoy the extended holiday at a beach house with their families.
Casa Grande	2,014	Fellipe Barbosa	Drama	6.9	123	Portuguese	Brazil	As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.
Executive Order	2,022	Lázaro Ramos	Drama, Science Fiction	6.9	116	Portuguese	Brazil	In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures	2,005	Marcelo Gomes	Drama	6.9	114	Portuguese	Brazil	1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Noah's Ark	2,024	Alois Di Leo	Animation, Music, Comedy, Fantasy, Family	6.9	112	Portuguese	Brazil	A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?
Macunaima	1,969	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure	6.9	87	Portuguese	Brazil	Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
The Man Who Challenged the Devil	2,007	Moacyr Góes	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror	6.9	86	Portuguese	Brazil	After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, an unconventional hero devoted to debauchery.
Private Desert	2,021	Aly Muritiba	Drama	6.9	81	Portuguese	Brazil	40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until eventually one guy pops up, saying he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.
The Tumbling Trapalhões	1,981	J.B. Tanko	Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music	6.9	68	Portuguese	Brazil	Humble officials, friends Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias become the great attraction of the circus Bartolo, thanks to its incredible ability to make the public laugh. But success has a price: the opposition of the magician Assis Satan and the greed of the Baron, the owner of the circus. Together, the four friends will have to fight them.
The Trespasser	2,002	Beto Brant	Drama, Thriller, Crime	6.9	57	Portuguese	Brazil	Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.
Bye Bye Brazil	1,980	Carlos Diegues	Drama	6.9	56	Portuguese	Argentina	The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.
Redemption	2,019	Mickey Fonseca	Action, Drama	6.9	49	Portuguese	Mozambique	A young ex-con seeking redemption is surprised by a bank foreclosure that forces him to plot against a ruthless crime boss.
Long Way Home	2,019	André Novais Oliveira	Drama	6.9	49	Portuguese	Brazil	In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past.
Os Parças 2	2,019	Cris D'amato	Comedy	6.9	43	Portuguese	Brazil	After learning that China has left the jail and is seeking revenge, Romeo needs to get money to leave the country as soon as possible. Soon, Toin, Ray Van and Pilôra join forces to restore a summer camp to attract all kinds of young people.
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell	2,010	Sérgio Machado	Comedy, Drama	6.9	43	Portuguese	Brazil	Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
Me, You, Them	2,000	Andrucha Waddington	Drama, Romance	6.9	43	Portuguese	Brazil	A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Variações: Guardian Angel	2,019	João Maia	Music, History, Drama	6.9	39	Portuguese	Portugal	Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
An Unforgettable Year - Summer	2,023	Cris D'amato	Drama, Romance	6.9	38	Portuguese	Brazil	In order to study fashion in so-desired Paris, a young country girl who hates Carnival travels to Rio de Janeiro to try to get support from the most famous designer in Brazil. Set on sneaking into the sewing team of one of the biggest samba schools, she will discover that Carnival only lasts for a week, but a love story can change her entire life.
Thiago Ventura: POKAS	2,020	Joana Mazzucchelli	Comedy	6.9	38	Portuguese	Brazil	In a rollicking special, Thiago Ventura jokes about life in the hood, politics and more, explaining how actions speak louder then words.
Paulo Coelho's Best Story	2,014	Daniel Augusto	Drama, History	6.9	33	Portuguese	Brazil	Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational global phenomenon he is today. Like the heroes in his spiritual classics THE ALCHEMIST and THE PILGRIMAGE, he long-searched for his calling, flirting with death, escaping madness, falling in love, and making rock ’n’ roll history in Brazil, all-the-while striving for success as a writer. A wild ride through a lifetime of stranger-than-fiction adventures, PAULO COELHO’S BEST STORY is a profoundly moving film that goes straight to the heart of the most beloved literary guru of our time, revealing the most incredible wonder of all: the man behind the masterpieces.
A Happy Family	2,024	José Eduardo Belmonte	Thriller, Drama, Horror	6.9	31	Portuguese	Brazil	In a happy family perfectly protected in a gated community, a mother is harshly accused of hurting her twin daughters and newborn baby. However, the truth behind the high walls may reveal unexpected cruelty.
I Have No Idea What I’m Doing With My Life	2,013	Matheus Souza	Drama, Comedy	6.9	28	Portuguese	Brazil	Clara doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, until one day she meets Guilherme who helps her to find her own path.
Astral City 2: The Messengers	2,024	Wagner de Assis	Drama	6.9	26	Portuguese	Brazil	A group of messenger spirits led by Aniceto, including doctor André Luiz, are tasked with going to Earth to help rescue three proteges whose interconnected stories are about to fail.
Shooting My Life's Script	2,024	Pedro Antônio	Romance, Comedy	6.9	26	Portuguese	Brazil	Everything changes in Fani's life when the opportunity arises to do an exchange program and live in another country for a year. The revealing conversations by phone or MSN and the constant notes during the class turn to another subject: the upcoming trip.
Blood	1,989	Pedro Costa	Drama, Mystery	6.9	26	Portuguese	Portugal	Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Heartless	2,024	Nara Normande	Drama	6.9	24	Portuguese	Brazil	Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction for this mysterious girl.
Casa de Lava	1,995	Pedro Costa	Drama	6.9	24	Portuguese	France	The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
An Extremely Nutty Teacher	2,011	César Rodrigues	Comedy, Family	6.9	23	Portuguese	Brazil	After studying in the capital, the young Cate, 18, returns to her small town in Minas Gerais, to teach in elementary school. Enthusiastic, free and communicative, she conquers the students in the act, but its leading behavior does not appeal to conservative teachers of the 40s. Every day she brings new ideas. While they discover the pleasure of learning, the school friends also have the first lessons about love, friendship and freedom. And the schoolmistress not only winning students: the most beautiful boys in town fall in love with her. Created by Tia Cida and niece of Bishop Aristides, Cate grew up with his uncle's godson, Beto, who became a priest and return to the city after studying outside.
Canastra Suja	2,016	Caio Sóh	Drama	6.9	21	Portuguese	Brazil	Batista and Maria form a couple who, apparently, are very happy in their marriage. However, the truth is that appearances deceive and much; in the background, Batista, an inveterate alcoholic and Maria, who has an affair with her eldest daughter's boyfriend, Emilia, represents a family on the edge of the ruins.
Cats Don't Have Vertigo	2,014	António-Pedro Vasconcelos	Comedy, Drama	6.9	21	Portuguese	Portugal	Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Janela da Alma	2,001	João Jardim	Documentary	6.9	20	Portuguese	Brazil	Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic.
I Screamed When I Knew What You Did in Friday the 13th of Last Summer Part 2 - I Saw the Hour of the Return of the Revenge in Halloween	2,011	Felipe M. Guerra	Comedy, Horror	6.9	19	Portuguese	Brazil	Seven years after the massacre of the first film, the survivors Niandra and Eliseu still fear the return of Geison, the terrible psychopath who mutilated his friends on a Friday the 13th. New murders start happening in the small town of Carlos Barbosa, putting a new generation of victims as targets of the killer. But who is behind that "Scream" mask?
(Be)Longing	2,015	João Pedro Plácido	Documentary	6.9	16	Portuguese	France	At Uz, an isolated hamlet in the northern mountains of Portugal, four generations live together in a group of around fifty people. When life is rough, solidarity is of the highest order. Everything else is left in God’s hands. They could have emigrated, like so many others, but chose to stay and keep their ancestral way of life, away from the racket of modernity.
Maids	2,001	Nando Olival	Drama, Comedy	6.9	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better.
The Conspirators	1,972	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	Drama, History	6.9	15	Portuguese	Brazil	The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.
Juntos e Enrolados	2,021	Rodrigo Van Der Put	Comedy	6.9	14	Portuguese	Brazil	After two years together and a lot of financial planning, Júlio and Daiana finally reach their dream of holding the long-awaited wedding party, so that they can finally get married in the church as per the rules. Everything seems to be going well, until the groom receives a message on his cell phone before the ceremony begins.
Quilombo	1,984	Carlos Diegues	History, Drama	6.9	14	Portuguese	France	Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
A Matter of Courage	2,016	Roberto Gervitz	Drama	6.9	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Hermano is a doctor who plans to climb a dangerous mountain. He feels guilty about the death of his best friend and needs a test of courage. But Hermano's wife reveals that she is pregnant and he needs to make a decision.
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang	2,016	Walter Salles	Documentary	6.9	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.
Tras-os-Montes	1,976	Margarida Cordeiro	Documentary	6.9	13	Portuguese	Portugal	The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east Portugal, a tapestry of micronarratives where past, present and future become intertwined.
A Velha a Fiar	1,964	Humberto Mauro	Comedy, Music	6.9	13	Portuguese	Brazil	A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some ...
A Night in 67	2,010	Ricardo Calil	Documentary, Music, History	6.9	12	Portuguese	Brazil	In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the springboard for the career of many a big-name stars, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos and Gilberto Gil. Appearing on such a program was no cakewalk, however: audiences could be as wild in their condemnation as in their appreciation of an artist. Extensive archive footage (including performances and behind-the-scenes interviews) from the turbulent final evening of the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music 1967 paints a fascinating picture, not only of the transformation of Brazilian music into real "festival" music, but also of a society starting to buck against the yoke of military rule.
The Sign of Chaos	2,003	Rogério Sganzerla	Drama	6.9	12	Portuguese	Brazil	A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.
Garden of the Sleepwalkers	2,017	Matheus Marchetti	Horror, Fantasy	6.9	11	Portuguese	Brazil	A group of repressed guests at an old mountainside hotel fall under a nightly spell where they can live out their most secret desires in the surrounding woodland.
3%	2,011	Jotagá Crema	Science Fiction, Drama	6.9	11	Portuguese	Brazil	A post-apocalyptic thriller set in near-future Brazil, where a select few are allowed to join a privileged society after undergoing an intense and competitive process.
Impuros: O Filme	2,019	René Sampaio	TV Movie, Crime, Drama	6.9	10	Portuguese	Brazil	Following in his deceased brother's footsteps, power-hungry drug lord Evandro embarks on a ruthless rise to power in Brazil's crime-ridden favelas. Evandro's ascension puts him on a collision course with Victor, a reckless detective with nothing to lose.
Secrets of the Tribe	2,010	José Padilha	Documentary, TV Movie	6.9	10	Portuguese	Brazil	What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air	2,007	Fabiano Maciel	Documentary	6.9	10	Portuguese	Brazil	A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his aspirations towards a just Brazil, and the ways he tried to help that along in his spectacular and beautiful buildings.
Two Sons of Francisco	2,005	Breno Silveira	Drama, History, Music	6.8	417	Portuguese	Brazil	The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
We're So Young	2,013	Antonio Carlos da Fontoura	Drama, Music	6.8	163	Portuguese	Brazil	The life of Renato Russo, from his first involvement with music, to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico, to the formation of Legião Urbana, in the Brasília rock scene of 1970s and 1980s.
Two Rabbits	2,012	Afonso Poyart	Action, Crime, Drama	6.8	149	Portuguese	Brazil	Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.
Os Normais: O Filme	2,003	José Alvarenga Jr.	Comedy	6.8	147	Portuguese	Brazil	The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands	1,976	Bruno Barreto	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance	6.8	142	Portuguese	Brazil	After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.
Overhaul	2,023	Tomás Portella	Action, Thriller, Drama	6.8	137	Portuguese	Brazil	When truck racer Roger loses everything, he receives a tempting but dangerous offer: to work as the getaway driver for a gang of thieves.
A Man Amidst Bees	2,015	Ian SBF	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy	6.8	122	Portuguese	Brazil	Bruno is a young film editor who has just broke up his marriage with Regina, and returned living in his mother's house. Drowned in deep sorrow, something very weird happens in his life: people around him are gradually disappearing. But only for him. Some kind of blindness.
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul	1,964	José Mojica Marins	Horror, Thriller, Fantasy	6.8	120	Portuguese	Brazil	Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.
City of God: 10 Years Later	2,013	Cavi Borges	Documentary	6.8	102	Portuguese	Brazil	City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?
Antonio das Mortes	1,969	Glauber Rocha	Action, Drama, Western	6.8	89	Portuguese	Germany	A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
Madame Satã	2,002	Karim Aïnouz	Crime, Drama, Romance, History	6.8	79	Portuguese	Brazil	In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
A Life Too Short: The Isabella Nardoni Case	2,023	Micael Langer	Documentary	6.8	66	Portuguese	Brazil	When a 5-year-old girl falls from her father's apartment, her mother embarks on a quest for justice — and is put under the national spotlight.
Zuzu Angel	2,006	Sérgio Rezende	Drama, History	6.8	64	Portuguese	Brazil	Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
Vai que Cola 2: O Começo	2,019	César Rodrigues	Comedy	6.8	53	Portuguese	Brazil	Long before they socialized almost every day at Dona Jô's pension, Jéssica, Ferdinando and Máicol didn't even know each other. But when Terezinha decides to organize a big feijoada at Morro do Cerol, they all meet for the first time, in the most unusual way possible.
O Shaolin do Sertão	2,016	Halder Gomes	Comedy	6.8	51	Portuguese	Brazil	Aluízio Li is a martial arts fan who lives with his head in the world of fights from dreaming and watching Chinese films. He believes he is a Shaolin monk, dressing and behaving just like his cinematic references. However, he is the subject of mocking jokes in his hometown, Quixadá, in the backlands of Ceará. His days of peace will end when retired MMA fighter Toni Tora Pleura announces a "tour" of challenges to bullies in several cities in the interior of Ceará, including Quixadá.
In Vanda's Room	2,001	Pedro Costa	Drama	6.8	51	Portuguese	Portugal	An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Buddies	2,013	Marcelo Galvão	Drama, Comedy, Adventure	6.8	47	Portuguese	Brazil	A road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down syndrome, who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where they have always lived in. One day, inspired by the movie "Thelma & Louise", they decide to run away using the gardener's old car to have a freedom experience. They travel to uncommon places in search for three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly. During this search, they embark on several adventures as if life was just a children's play
Two Irenes	2,017	Fabio Meira	Drama	6.8	46	Portuguese	Brazil	In the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter with the same name.
A Jaula	2,022	João Wainer	Thriller	6.8	42	Portuguese	Brazil	It's just another luxury car being stolen on a street in São Paulo... or not. A thief easily gets into the SUV parked on a quiet street, but when he tries to get out, he discovers he is trapped, without water or food.
The Portuguese Falcon	2,015	João Leitão	Comedy, Action	6.8	40	Portuguese	Portugal	A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".
The Turning Wind	1,962	Glauber Rocha	Drama	6.8	38	Portuguese	Brazil	In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression, with tragic outcome.
An Invisible Victim: The Eliza Samudio Case	2,024	Juliana Antunes	Documentary, Crime	6.8	36	Portuguese	Brazil	A star goalkeeper threatens a woman who is pregnant with his child. Her pleas for help go unanswered in the shadow of his fame — then tragedy strikes.
The Battle of Canudos	1,997	Sérgio Rezende	War, History, Drama	6.8	36	Portuguese	Brazil	At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to destroy the settlement, which culminates in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Brazil.
Os Espetaculares	2,020	André Pellenz	Comedy	6.8	27	Portuguese	Brazil	An egotistical stand-up comedian fights with a spectator and gets fired. To be able to pay his son's pension, he decides to participate in a comedy group contest. Now he will need to work harmoniously with the rest of the team.
Balas & Bolinhos	2,001	Luís Ismael	Comedy, Crime	6.8	27	Portuguese	Portugal	A group of friends meet and set out to rob a gas station.
Tragic Story with Happy Ending	2,005	Regina Pessoa	Animation, Drama	6.8	26	Portuguese	Portugal	A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
The Territory	2,022	Alex Pritz	Documentary	6.8	24	Portuguese	Brazil	The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.
God's Comedy	1,996	João César Monteiro	Comedy, Drama	6.8	24	Portuguese	Portugal	An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Suspension Points	2,022	Marcos Bernstein	Comedy, Romance	6.8	22	Portuguese	Brazil	André is a young doctor who, after spending a year working in Africa, discovers that he has been exchanging letters not with his long-time girlfriend, but with someone very close to her.
O Homem Perfeito	2,018	Marcus Baldini	Comedy, Romance	6.8	22	Portuguese	Brazil	Diana is a successful and happily married woman. At least that's what she thinks until she finds out that her husband is cheating on her with a young aspiring dancer.
The Poet of the Castle	1,959	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	Documentary	6.8	22	Portuguese	Brazil	A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many New-Waveish films of the time, depicts the modern urban landscape as an ominous and alienating force.
Undercover Party Crasher	2,025	Cris D'amato	Comedy, Action	6.8	19	Portuguese	Brazil	In order to get evidence for her case and dismantle a criminal organization, an uptight undercover cop crashes a high school graduation trip to a party-heavy beach in Brazil.
Praça Paris	2,017	Lúcia Murat	Thriller, Drama	6.8	18	Portuguese	Argentina	Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child and her brother Jonas is a dangerous bandit that is in prison. Increasingly frightened by the reports she hears, she feels threatened at the same time that Glória sees her as essential in her life.
The Cannibals	1,988	Manoel de Oliveira	Drama, Fantasy	6.8	18	Portuguese	Germany	This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger, and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
All the Women in the World	1,966	Domingos de Oliveira	Romance, Comedy, Drama	6.8	18	Portuguese	Brazil	When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.
Unicorn	2,017	Eduardo Nunes	Drama	6.8	16	Portuguese	Brazil	A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter. Based on two short stories by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst.
That Damned Meat	1,985	André Klotzel	Comedy	6.8	16	Portuguese	Brazil	Nhô Quim has only one dream in his life: to eat red meat. He meets Carula, a young woman anxious to get married, who promises him that in their wedding her father will kill him an ox. But, before that, Nhô Quim must pass a series of tests.
Napo	2,020	Gustavo Ribeiro	Animation, Family	6.8	15	Portuguese	Brazil	John, unable to understand the illness that drives his grandfather between past and present states, stumbles into an old album full of photographs. The images guide his imagination, transforming his grandfather’s memories into drawings that shape their relationship into a history of memory-building and remembrance.
Aruanda	1,960	Linduarte Noronha	Documentary	6.8	15	Portuguese	Brazil	The real story of Quilombo Olho d'Água from Serra do Talhado, in the state of Paraíba, Brazil, which became institutionally isolated from the rest of the country. Quilombos were runaway slave communities in colonial Brazil.
Rough Gang	1,933	Humberto Mauro	Drama	6.8	15	Portuguese	Brazil	A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he becomes part of a love triangle.
Rage	2,018	Sérgio Tréfaut	Drama	6.8	14	Portuguese	Brazil	Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
Loki: Arnaldo Baptista	2,009	Paulo Henrique Fontenelle	Documentary, Music	6.8	13	Portuguese	Brazil	Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer Rita Lee and then separation. He also goes through the depression that devastated his life after the group ended and that led him to attempt suicide, his solo career, rapprochement with his brother and member of the Mutantes, Sérgio Dias, culminating in the band's return in 2006.
Two Lost in a Dirty Night	2,002	José Joffily	Drama	6.8	13	Portuguese	Brazil	In New York City, an illegal immigrant gets into trouble because of his relationship with a self-destructive prostitute.
Não Vai Ter Golpe!	2,019	Alexandre Santos	Documentary	6.8	12	Portuguese	Brazil	"People on the street will not end in anything." How many times have you heard this phrase? Even so, at each protest, you took to the streets, invited people, mobilized. Why? What was the strange stubbornness that made you strive without the slightest idea if it would work? This is the story we want to tell. Not only MBL's history, but yours. You saw, lived and won. And now you can remember how it all started…
Auto de Resistência	2,018	Natasha Neri	Documentary	6.8	12	Portuguese	Brazil	A documentary about the Rio de Janeiro police killings praticed as so-called "self-defense acts". The film follows people who deal with those deaths in their daily lives, showing how Brazil's Federal Government deals with these cases, from the police investigations to the courtrooms.

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