Variety Lights
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he...
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The Dolphin
According to an Amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a Brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Boto, who...
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The Third Bank of the River
After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of...
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The Bandit
In the time of the "cangaceiros" in the badlands of the Northeast of Brazil, the cruel Captain Galdino Ferreira and his band abduct the...
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Independência ou Morte
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.
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Club of Women
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together...
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Lampião, King of the Badlands
The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of the...
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The Wind Rose
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
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O Santo Milagroso
A pastor and a priest compete for the religious leadership of the population of a small town. When the pastor tries to prevent his sister's...
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S.O.S. Noronha
In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and...
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Jesuíno Brilhante, o Cangaceiro
In the late 19th century, Jesuíno Brilhante swears to avenge his cousin, the republican and abolitionist Botelho, who was killed by powerful...
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Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors...
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O Caçador de Esmeraldas
The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".
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Doomed Lovers
The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished...
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Paris Music Hall
The publicist Henri Michelin is looking for a new star for the review of Eden, a music hall led by Bendix.
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Cangaceiros de Lampião
On the day of Pedro Boiadeiro's wedding, a band of cangaceiros who survived the Angicos massacre invade his home, then proceed to beat him up, and...
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