d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1971
description:
"This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal to a puppet government. A local guerilla fighter is tortured by a priest and his cronies who take sadistic pleasure in the torment of their victims. A blonde woman loyal to a shadowy operative is stripped naked, thrown in a cage and crucified by the sinful and sadistic spiritual scum. The guerilla eventually escapes to exact revenge on the enemy." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.9 (26)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 570MB
qlty: VHS
subs: ?
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Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
The Lion Has Seven Heads
The Priest and the Girl
d. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
c. Brazil
y. 1966
description:
"Helena Ignez and Paul Jose star in this plodding melodrama from Brazil. A dedicated priest tries to help a young girl from the village escape from an unwanted suitor. He succeeds but the two are soon surrounded by an angry mob." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.8 (21)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1170MB
qlty: ?
subs: yes
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Brasilia 18%
d. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
c. Brazil
y. 2006
description:
"Coroner Dr. Olavo Bilac (Carlos Alberto Riccelli) returns to Brasilia from Los Angeles to perform an autopsy on the body of Eugenia Camara (Karine Carvalho), a young woman working in politics who was believed to be having affairs with prominent men and murdered by her jealous boyfriend. After leaving the airport the doctor is reintroduced to the wealthy, casually corrupt world of Brazilian politics at a swank party. It soon becomes clear that the powers-that-be expect him to positively identify the body without asking any questions, even though DNA tests haven't proven that the body is Eugenia's. At the party he is seduced by Georgesand Romero (Malu Mader), whose powerful and well-connected family appears to be implicated in the disappearance of Camara. The next morning Bilac decides, to everyone's shock, that he will not immediately ID the body and will conduct an investigation into its real identity, Camara's whereabouts, and the political scandal that seems to lie beneath the mystery. He comes under increasing pressure and threats to halt his investigation and struggles to reconcile the youthful idealisms of his friends with the present reality: that when having acquired power in adulthood they are just as crooked and amoral as their predecessors. He is also recovering from the death of his wife Laura (Bruna Lombardi) and experiences hallucinations of her and eventually Camara too. Bilac must eventually decide whether or not he too should give in, abort his detective work, and return to Los Angeles." (AMG)
IMDB... 4.6 (63)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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The Amulet of Ogum
d. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
c. Brazil
y. 1974
description:
"Ogum is one of the deities of Brazil's many voodoo-related folk religions. This story is narrated by an ubiquitous folk singer and tells of a young boy whose mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum's blessings which would make him immune to gunfire. The amulet apparently works, for the boy becomes a member of a mobster's hit-team and then joins with a group of people who resist his original employers. He is betrayed by a woman who, ironically, possesses a similar amulet of her own." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.2 (28)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Rio, Northern Zone
d. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
c. Brazil
y. 1957
description:
"Rio Zone Norte was one of Brazil's contributions to the 1958 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Grande Otelo heads the cast as a self-trained composer of samba music. Unwise in the ways of the world, Otelo permits himself to be exploited by a charlatan who passes off the composer's music as his own. Things don't end so well for the protagonist, but he remains loyal to his Art to the very end. American critics in 1958 felt obliged to note that, despite the fact that the film's hero was black, the race issue was never mentioned in Rio Zone Norte; at the time, of course, race relations were far more relaxed in Brazil than the U.S." (AMG)
IMDB... 8.6 (55)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 800MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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The Golden Mouth
d. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
c. Brazil
y. 1963
description:
"In Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, in the 60's, the powerful "bicheiro" (for non-Brazilians: in Brazil, mainly in Rio de Janeiro, there is an illegal and very popular lottery of numbers associated to animals called "jogo do bicho" (game of animals), and the outlaws are called "bicheiros") Boca de Ouro (Jece Valadão) dies. Two journalists look for his former lover, Dona Guigui (Odete Lara), trying to get information of any unsolved crime committed by Boca de Ouro and make a bang news. In accordance with her mood, Guigui tells three different versions of the mysterious murder of Leleco (Daniel Filho) and Celeste (Maria Lúcia Monteiro) to the reporters." (IMDB)
IMDB... 8.8 (37)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
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subs: no
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Rio 40 Degrees
d. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
c. Brazil
y. 1955
description:
"In the 1950s, a non-realistic and highly innovative filmmaking movement swept over the country of Brazil, which some might consider an unlikely spot for such invention. However, with a population of well over a hundred and fifty million, that country had (and has) a lively moviemaking business and also has many connoisseurs of films whose emphasis is artistic rather than commercial. This movie was the first part of a projected trilogy which included Rio Zona Norte, and it was made by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, who was considered to be a prime mover in the "Cinema Novo" movement. The third movie in the trilogy was never made. The story offers a varied portrait of the city of Rio de Janeiro at that time, organized around the life and work of five youthful peanut vendors who live in the surrounding slums (favelas). Each works in a different part of town: Quinta da Boa Vista, Copacabana Beach, Sugar Loaf Mountain, the soccer stadium and Corcovado Mountain. Reviewers of this film discerned the influence of Roberto Rossellini and the Italian neorealist school in its style. The most famous of the films to emerge from this filmmaking tradition was Black Orpheus, which is still widely watched and enjoyed today." (AMG)
IMDB... 8.1 (92)
_AMG... n/a
size: 880MB
qlty: VHS
subs: no
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Di Cavalcanti
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1977
description:
"This is a very rare movie, but the story is very spread among brazilian cinema people. When brazilian art master Di Cavalcanti died, Glauber Rocha went to his funeral... with a camera. The short movie shows Cavalcanti`s corpse in the coffin, the funeral, and his family yelling at Rocha to get out of there with that camera, while in the background we hear Jorge Ben singing "Umbabarauma, homem gol", a famous samba-funk song about a famous brazilian soccer player. The guts make the myth." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 6.9 (40)
_AMG... n/a
size: 60MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Cutting Heads
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1970
description:
"This uneven and hastily produced film suffers from many technical difficulties and is plagued by meaningless improvisation. Some attempt is made by the director to talk of some of the social problems in Brazil, but this entry qualifies as one itself. A narrator tells tales of the poverty stricken, and the filmmaker's many attempts at symbolism are confusing and pretentious." (AMG)
IMDB... 4.8 (25)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Maranhao 66
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1966
description:
n/a
IMDB... 7.6 (16)
_AMG... n/a
size: 170MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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The Turning Wind
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1962
description:
"Brazilian director Glauber Rocha was only twenty years old when he made the interesting but uneven Barravento, his first film, and it already shows his interest in ritual and lower-class minorities. In this instance, the spotlight is on the lives of fishermen with more African than European blood in their veins -- and in their culture. Their overseers are the opposite, and thus arises the nearly universal problem of white exploitation of a black, minority cultural group. Aside from the political issues involved, there is a lot of colorful dancing -- a hallmark of Brazil -- and a glimpse at macumba rituals." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.1 (46)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 1080MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Cinco vezes Favela
d. Miguel Borges, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Carlos Diegues, Marcos Farias & Leon Hirszman
c. Brazil
y. 1962
description:
"Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro." (IMDB)
IMDB... 5.9 (16)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: TV
subs: no
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A$$untina da$ América$
d. Luiz Rosemberg Filho
c. Brazil
y. 1976
description:
I don't know anything about this film, but, judging from the title, I'd guess it's political and a [Marxist?] critique of American capitalism.
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1370MB
qlty: VHS
subs: no
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