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Black Orpheus
Foreign Films
Camus' winner of the Palme d'Or winner at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival is a modern reinterpretati- on of the myth of Orpheus which simultaneously celebrates the beauty, music and...... read more
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The Man Who Copied
Foreign Films
Comic strip fantasy and glum working day reality mix in this unusual Brazilian film. AndrT (Lßzaro Ramos) works making photocopies at a stationary store, shooting the breeze with his...... read more
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Carandiru
Foreign Films
Acclaimed Argentinean director Hector Babenco (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, PIXOTE), blends pathos and black comedy in this adaptation of the autobiographic- al book CARANDIRU STATION...... read more
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Pixote
Foreign Films
Hector Babenco's scathing and heartbreaking story of Pixote (Fernando Ramos Da Silva), a sweet - looking streetwise 10 - year - old boy who is one of the three million homeless children...... read more
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Middle of the World
Foreign Films
Based on a true story by writer David Francia Mendes, THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD offers a distressing look at the poverty - stricken life of a Brazilian family. Mendes's words have been...... read more
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Midnight
Foreign Films
The turn of the millennium has a profound effect on residents of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro in MIDNIGHT, a stunningly photographed feature from award - winning directors Daniela Thomas...... read more
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Elite Squad
Foreign Films
One of the most notorious releases in the history of Brazilian cinema, Jose Padilha's ELITE SQUAD exposes the rampant corruption plaguing Rio de Janeiro from a policeman's point of...... read more
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O Fantasma
Foreign Films
Sergio (Ricardo Meneses) is a brooding, lonely man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men in the...... read more
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Bus 174
Foreign Films
June 12, 2000, is a day that will forever be remembered by the people of Brazil. Early that morning, as the citizens of Rio de Janeiro woke up and made their way to work and school,...... read more
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Possible Loves
Foreign Films
Brazilian college student Carlos (Murilo Benicio) waits for his girlfriend, Julia (Carolina Ferraz) to show up at a movie theater. Sandra Werneck's heartfelt romantic comedy uses this...... read more
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Foreign Land
Foreign Films
Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) and Daniela Thomas co-directed this crime drama about expatriate Brazilians who get mixed up in the Lisbon underworld. Paco (Pinto), a young Brazilian...... read more
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