Film nagrodzony na MFF w Kartagenie i Mar del Plata oraz Brazylijskimi Nagrodami Filmowymi, a w Polsce pokazywany w ramach 3. Festiwalu Filmów Latynoamerykańskich. "Testament psa" to zabawna komedia pełna magii i surrealizmu, która podbiła serca milionów widzów w Brazylii. Główny bohater to przebiegły biedak, który aby zdobyć kawałek chleba wodzi za nos bogatszych, choć głupszych mieszkańców swojej wioski. Konsekwencje jego intryg są katastrofalne dlatego staje przed obliczem (czarnego) Jezusa Chrystusa i Matki Boskiej, aby wytłumaczyć się ze swoich czynów.
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.
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.
Czteroosobowa brazylijska czarna rodzina z niższej klasy średniej stara się nie upadać na duchu w miesiącach następujących po wyborze prawicowego prezydenta - człowieka, który reprezentuje wszystko, czemu sprzeciwiają się jej członkowie.
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.
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.
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
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.
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.
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
Historia oparta na faktach. Francine Hughes (Farrah Fawcett) jest wykorzystywana przez swojego męża. Do kogokolwiek zwracała się po pomoc, nikt jej nie udzielał. Dlatego też pewnej nocy, podczas której małżonek ją zgwałcił, postanawia się zemścić. W 1977 roku zostaje oskarżona o podłożenie ognia do łóżka, w którym spał jej mąż.
Iremar bierze udział w Vaquejadas - rodeo w północno-wschodniej Brazylii. Jego domem jest przyczepa, którą wozi byki z przedstawienia na przedstawienie. Po przedstawieniach zaszywa się w swojej ciężarówce i szyje stroje utkane brokatem i cekinami marząc o zostaniu projektantem mody.
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
A group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
Small-town trickster Pedro Malasartes has to face two great enemies: Próspero, who will do anything to impede such a lazy, cowardly person like Malasartes from dating his sister, Áurea; and Death incarnated, who wants to take a vacation after two thousand years collecting lives and intends on tricking Malasartes into assuming his tedious job.
Gubernator Jack Stanton kandyduje na prezydenta USA. Wraz ze swoją żoną Susan zbiera doborową ekipę doradców i rusza pełną parą na Waszyngton. Kandydat ma jednak pewne słabości, które mogą zaciążyć nad jego kampanią. Gdy opinia publiczna dowiaduje się o jego skrywanym romansie, wybucha skandal.
Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.
Jompa Tormann and his guests and family are brutally gunned down during an engagement party. Sami- and women-hating police officer Sid Wisløff is put on the case. Together with his colleague and a Sami guide, Wisløff tries to find the guilty party, but Tormann survived and he wants revenge!