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Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981)
Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for "Peewee") is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses ...
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City of God (aka Cidade de Deus) (2002)
Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God'. A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where police rarely go, and residents are lucky if ...
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Caetano Veloso: Prenda Minha (1999)
Tracklisting:
1. Jorge de Capadocia
2. Prenda Minha
3. Maditacao
4. Terra
5. Eclipse Oculto
6. Texto: Verdade Tropical
7. Bem Devagar
8. Drao
9. ...
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Ray Charles: Live In Brazil (2004)
A very rare 1963 performance by Ray Charles in Sao Paulo, Brazil, recorded one day before his 33rd birthday. This disc is a remarkable find. Beyond its historical significance, ...
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The Man Of The Year (aka Homem o do Ano) (2002)
Based on award winning novel 'O Matador' by Patricia Mel, 'The Man Of The Year' boasts intense performances from Brazilian film and TV superstars Murilo Benicio and Clausia ...
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Brasileirinho (2005)
In his musical documentary Brasileirinho, Mika Kaurismäki shows us the history and the vitality of the Choro, the first genuinely Brazilian urban music. Featuring footage of ...
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Birdwatchers (aka La terra degli uomini rossi) (2008)
In Mato Grosso do Sol in Brazil, a war is raging between the wealthy farming classes and the workers on their land -the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowa. Their employment prospects are ...
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The Pope's Toilet (aka El Bano del Papa) (2008)
It is 1988, and Melo, a Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope John Paul II. Numbers begin circulating: hundreds of people will come, no thousands say ...
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Central Station (aka Central Do Brazil) (1998)
Dora (Montenegro) is a lonely and cynical older woman who spends her days unhappily writing letters for illiterate customers at Rio de Janeiro's Central Station. But things begin ...
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Bus 174 (2002)
This documentary details the tragic events in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000 when armed young man Sandro do Nascimento desperately boards a bus and threatens to kill the ...
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Futebol
Futebol is a riveting series of three 80 minute documentaries produced by award winning documentary maker Joao Moreira Salles of Videofilmes, the production company he started ...
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The Elite Squad (aka Tropa de Elite) (2007)
It is 1997 and hundreds of thousands live in Rio’s notorious favelas. Drug trafficking militias have complete control within the slums while the police run their criminal ...
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Linha De Passe (2008)
At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four fatherless brothers aspire to break free of their social status and its trappings. 'Linha de Passe' ...
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Foreign Land (aka Terra Estrangeira) (1995)
Paco lives with his elderly mother in a poor Sao Paulo neighbourhood. When she hears the government has seized her savings the shocked woman drops dead. Paco decides to leave ...
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Favela Rising (2005)
Favela Rising is an explosive and inspirational documentary about Rio de Janeiro's most violent favela (shantytown) and the revolutionary vision of a man who against all odds ...
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Carandiru (2003)
Murderers, rapists, stool pigeons , drug addicts. They were the feared ones, the criminals who really ran Carandiru, Brazil's largest correctional facility: Ebony, an honorable ...
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Behind the Sun (aka Abril Despedaçado) (2001)
Behind The Sun is a critically acclaimed story about love, loyalty, and the choice a son must make between honouring his family and following his heart. In the brutal Brazilian ...
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Black Orpheus (1959)
Making a huge impact on its release, Marcel Camus' Oscar, Golden Globe and Palm D'Or winning film retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the vibrant backdrop of ...
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Lower City (aka Cidade Baixa) (2005)
A steamy love triangle set in the low life milieu of Brazil's Salvador del Bahia, where violence is always likely to erupt, Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldhino (Wagner Moura) are ...
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City Of Men (2007)
Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjiha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their ...
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The Three Marias (2002)
It is the 1970s and Firmino Santos Guerra is abandoned by his fiancee, Filomena , in favour of his greatest enemy, Borges Capadocio. From this day on bad blood runs between the ...
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Gilberto Gil: Acustico (1994)
Summarizing his first three decades as a popular composer, Gilberto Gil has given new life to a repertoire that is a synthesis of his work: 22 songs - of which three have never ...
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Bossa Brazil: Stories of Love (2005)
In 1958 music changed forever with the release of Chega De Saudande. Written by Antonio Carlos ‘Tom’ Jobim and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, the song was first recorded by Elizete ...
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Pilot Travel Guides: Destination Brazil (2002)
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and covers half of South America. The world's biggest jungle, The Amazon, fills nearly half of the country.
Due to its colonial ...
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Anaconda (BLU-RAY) (1997)
Deep in the mighty Amazon jungle, a documentary crew headed by Dr Steven Kale (Eric Stoltz) and Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) rescue a charismatic loner, Paul Sarone (Jon Voight). ...
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