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.
Through archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, this documentary presents the story of the historical movie theaters located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as the Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyday in the 1950s, when there were more than 15 cinemas in full operation.
A documentary on the life and work of Amácio Mazzaropi, a phenomenon of popularity and profitability of Brazilian cinema.
Investigation into the seven years that followed the closure of Companhia Vera Cruz, in 1955, which marked a period of crisis for national film production in Brazil.
In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital revolution.
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Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
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A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.
In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.
Bondomil, a quiet little town, becomes famous because in its main square there's a tree with strange fruits, with the format of the male sex organ, supposed to be an aphrodisiac for women. Soon the population grows wild, and tourists gather around it.
An anthology film (eight shorts) honoring the Boca do Lixo ("Mouth of Garbage") film production in the downtown area of São Paulo, Brazil.
Powerful and insatiable millionaire hides in his own private island for the weekend, in search of answers for his feeling of personal dissatisfaction. But he is not alone on the beautiful beach: he's surrounded by the women he cares for, especially his daughter, for whom he nurtures an almost incestuous desire.
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
Four people--Eliana, an adult movie actress who is pestered by a psychotic fan; Ester, a young woman who became pregnant with a village boy; Danilo, a failed deputy who is in love with a hotel maid much younger than him, and his unfaithful ex-wife, Elza--all end up in a small inner-city hotel.
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.
Zilda has had to put up with too much crap and she ain't taking it anymore.
The ghosts of Boca do Lixo. Ido Oliveira still walks through Triumpho St.
A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
Justine, is a famous TV commercial actress raised by adoptive parents. She is invited to meet her biological family at a party that celebrates her blood parents' successful business: a butcher shop. Thus, the plot unfolds with a series of bizarre and sinister events surrounding these new familiars and the secret of their success.
On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.
Recently arrived from Recife, bachelor Paulo goes to a party in Rio de Janeiro and there he meets Lucíola, with whom he falls in love. Despite his friend Sá having announced that Lucíola is a prostitute, Paulo begins to experience great love with her, but cannot avoid being jealous.
A group of young misfits decide to go camping in a remote forest region. On the way, they stop to destroy a gas station and are attacked by a commando of psychopathic mercenaries. A massacre ensues, in which one of the sons of the commando's leader is killed. Furious, he and his henchmen start chasing the young survivors, who desperately try to hide in the forest, while having a lot of sex along the way.
Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
A simple and handy manual to take the boredom under the narration of a sick mind, crazy in any big city. Mojo, a lonely young fanatic about movies and American culture, has dreams that will never come true. After spending his days holed up in a building, he decides to vent his repressed impulses by running over mutton dogs.
The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.
