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Lady on the Bus (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brazilian erotic drama film where Sonia Braga stars as a recently married wife whose wedding night did not end well. She lives through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on buses.
Style: erotic
Plot: sexual deviant, sexual content, erotica, exploitation, violent sex, cuckold, cheating wife, bare breasts, female nudity, lust, defloration, wedding night ...
Time: year 1978
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Nise: The Heart of Madness (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeirom where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by ...
Style: light, captivating, spiritual, inspirational
Plot: mental patient, mental illness, disturbed individual, art, biopic, brazilian history, art exhibition, mental institution, historical event, painter, female artist, mentally unstable ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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 7.4
 859
Lucio Flavio (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story: History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies and his fight against a death squad.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful
Plot: alienation, legal, mobster, nudity, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, male nudity, fugitive, dirty cop, bank robbery, violent content, police corruption ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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 6.5
 420
Veronica (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teacher takes a student to his house in the slum, but on arrival discovered that drug traffickers killed his parents and now are at your demand.
Plot: children, slum, girl, education, feminism, organized crime, teacher, police, murder, witness, violence, female protagonist ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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My Name Ain't Johnny (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the 90's, In Rio de Janeiro, the middle-class João Guilherme Estrella is introduced to the world of drugs consuming maconha and cocaine first and later becoming a drug-dealer with many connections inclusive in Europe. However, he spends all ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: prison, drug lord, drug dealing, life is a bitch, couple relations, buddies, ambition, addiction, partner, rehabilitation, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place: rio de janeiro, venice, latin america, brazil
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 6.1
 433
Out of Tune (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 139 min.
Story: 'Slightly Out Of Tune' is about a group of friends who come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot: music, friendship, love triangle, fall in love, rise to the top, ambition, desire for fame, love and romance, society, rising to stardom, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, new york
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Owner of the Story (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, humorous, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: alternate timeline, past, couples, memories, flashback sequence, relationships, male female relationship, life, female protagonist, choice, memory, theater ...
Time: 60s
Place: rio de janeiro
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 6.9
 1K
Redeemer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
Style: surprise ending, freeze frame, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: liberation theology, urban setting, missing father, escaped prisoner, kidnapping, suicide, guilt, prison, photographer, reporter, father son relationship, funeral ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Possible Loves (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, lifestyle, love and romance, sexual relations, midlife crisis, lgbt, womanizer, opposites attract, young lovers, unfulfillment, family relations, looking for sex ...
Time: future
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, cuba, africa ...
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Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Plot: composer, musician, biopic, fictional biography, amazon river, nudity, passion, heart condition, saxophonist, amazon, time, cellist ...
Time: 1940s, 1900s, 1890s, 1950s
Place: rio de janeiro, new york, brazil, paris france
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Little Book of Love (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruined relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long-term marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: divorce, marriage, nudity, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, friends, thirtysomething life, couples, singleness, best friend, sex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
Plot: sex with stepson, teenage sexuality, affair, stepmother, lgbt, prostitution, wedding, nudity, homosexual, aunt, gay, widower ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Artificial Paradises (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Artificial Paradises tells the story of Nando and Erika, two young people in their twenties who meet several times without noticing. It tells the story of the subculture of electronic music and rave parties and drugs like MDMA.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, erotic, visually appealing ...
Plot: youth, best friend, fall in love, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, drug abuse, lesbian, music festival, lesbian teen, erotica, polyamory, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, amsterdam
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Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, lone hero, chase, assassin, tough guy, murder, killer, assassination, criminal's revenge, mercenary, martial arts, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, usa, cambodia, bangkok thailand, southeast asia ...
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 6.9
 1K
Zuzu Angel (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "Zuzu Angel" covers the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice in the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: fighting the system, uncover truth, missing person, injustice, life is a bitch, society, politics, rebellion, legal, price of justice, political unrest, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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 7.9
 9K
Pixote (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot: prostitution, street kid, sex with a minor, boy, coming of age, children, anal rape, child rape, breast feeding, loneliness, homeless, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
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Her Own Destiny (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of ...
Style: novela, soap opera, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: kidnapping, problem, eccentric family, search and rescue, child kidnapping, race against time, child abduction, carnival, newspaper, rivalry, missing person, military dictatorship ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 78 min.
Story: There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other violent events happen when two girls realize they are in love ...
Style: weird
Plot: lgbt, violent, lesbianism, filicide, violence, suicide, torture, son murders father, lesbian sex, male full rear nudity, bare breasts, female pubic hair ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes. The first one is about a wealthy woman, Márcia, bored with her ...
Style: erotic, dark comedy, black comedy, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, cinema, making love, sex scene, writers, lesbian sex, male nudity, neurotic woman, murder of a family, abusive relationship, debauchery, male pubic hair ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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 6.8
 1K
Heleno (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 116 min.
Story: José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, stylized, black and white ...
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, lifestyle, rise and fall, couples, womanizer, life is a bitch, rivalry, bad attitude, drug abuse, troublemaker, sport team ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Muita Calma Nessa Hora (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three young friends, Tita, Mari and Aninha decide to change their situations and travel to a beach place for a weekend. On the road, they meet Estrella, a hippie that wants a hide to try to find her unknown father. Together, they will live ...
Style: sexy, not serious, realistic, humorous, social
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: friends, strong female presence, buddies, best friend, silly humor, disorder, escapades, youth, beach, on the road, twentysomething life, drugs/alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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 5.2
 2K
Trap.com (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: looking for love, nothing goes right, dishonesty, couples, betrayal, singleness, disorder, internet, sexual relations, love and romance, computers and web
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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The Man from the Future (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Zero (Wagner Moura) is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena (Alinne Moraes) the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, apocalyptic, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, existence paradox, scientist, disorder, inventions and discoveries, destiny, hopes, love and romance, sent to the past, time warp, time, butterfly effect ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
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My Mom is a Character (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, light ...
Plot: eccentric family, family life, disorder, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, humour, parenthood, motherhood, lgbt ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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 6.7
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Good Luck (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live is and they know it. This shall not prevent ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, weird
Plot: older woman younger man sex, first sexual experience, psychiatric patient, woman woman relationship, friendship, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, social problems, relationship problems, teenage love, mental illness, teenage girl ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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 6.3
 610
The Other End (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Diogo (17) has a little quirk: he likes to call his mother's female therapy patients and masturbate while listening to them on the phone. One of these patients is Angela (43), a woman who was just left by her husband When Diogo calls Angela, ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, teenage sexuality, dysfunctional marriage, single woman, anonymous telephone call, lgbt, relationship problems, forbidden love, love interest, troubled marriage, love story, crumbling marriage ...
Place: rio de janeiro
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Just Another Christmas (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to ...
Style: thought provoking, humorous, feel good, light, romantic ...
Plot: christmas, time travel, winter, time loop, santa claus, alternate reality, introspection, repeated event, road not taken, time warp, love, repeated scene ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Girls from Ipanema (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A 1950s housewife goes to Rio de Janeiro to meet up with her husband, only to learn he's deserted her, but decides to stay and open a bossa nova club.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, queer cinema ...
Plot: female empowerment, misogyny, tragedy, death, male female relationship, love and romance, club, male female friendship, female friendship, love, women's rights, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, year 1960
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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The Barber of Rio (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Matteo is a Roman barber. In Roma his activity is driving him almost to ruin, he is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.
Plot: barber, escape, liar, female nudity, husband wife relationship, nudity, barbershop
Place: rio de janeiro, rome italy, brazil
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 6.2
 108K
Moonraker (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: During the transportation of a Space Shuttle a Boeing 747 crashes in the Atlantic Ocean yet when they go to look for the destroyed shuttle it is not there. James Bond investigates the missing mission space shuttle and soon learns that the shuttles ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, stylized, saga, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond, 007, space travel, space shuttle, astronaut, space, secret agent, espionage, agent, space opera, secret service, murder ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, venice, california, italy ...
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