Release Date: 1995-04-14

Overview: Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

Rating: 6.4 (38 votes)

Release Date: 1962-09-02

Overview: Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

Rating: 8 (29 votes)

Release Date: 2019-07-27

Overview: A runaway runs out of time to save his life. But it depends on the butchers...

Rating: 6.8 (10 votes)

Release Date: 1914-09-07

Overview: Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

Rating: 6.1 (67 votes)

Release Date: 1955-08-24

Overview: The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation.

Rating: 6.202 (62 votes)

Release Date: 2015-05-22

Overview: It's Sunday. During the course of the meal, Jean observes family members. They ask you questions without listening to the answers... It is normal, Sunday dinner.

Rating: 6.3 (20 votes)

Release Date: 2002-12-28

Overview: A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer

Rating: 6.5 (18 votes)

Release Date: 1988-06-23

Overview: Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career.

Rating: 6.2 (9 votes)

Release Date: 1991-08-21

Overview: Atmospheric soundtrack follows this compilation of nature footage that focuses on the ocean and various life forms that live, mate and die in it.

Rating: 6.3 (46 votes)

Release Date: 1991-01-02

Overview: Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.

Rating: 7.8 (2 votes)

Release Date: 1970-09-30

Overview: This is a continuation of the sex education films by Oswald Kolle. The entire Kolle family appears nude and openly discusses sex among the parents, two daughters and one son. The father recommends masturbation for children unless the act would be traumatic for the participant. Some mention of the Oedipal complex is discussed, but no details are given because individual situations may vary.

Rating: 4.2 (5 votes)

Release Date: 1990-03-22

Overview: Josh meets a young woman who shortly afterwards collapses and is rushed to hospital in an ambulance. He follows after her only to find that there is no record her being admitted, and he soon learns that her roommate also vanished after being picked up by the same ambulance. Convinced of a conspiracy, Josh proceeds to investigate, despite the discouragement of the police.

Rating: 5.9 (116 votes)

Release Date: 2006-11-17

Overview: In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.

Rating: 7.475 (59 votes)

Release Date: 1955-12-22

Overview: Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

Rating: 6.9 (169 votes)

Release Date: 2007-07-20

Overview: When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.

Rating: 7.1 (109 votes)

Release Date: 2004-09-04

Overview: Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

Rating: 6.624 (481 votes)

Release Date: 1980-09-26

Overview: 10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Rating: 7.993 (222 votes)

Release Date: 1994-08-12

Overview: When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

Rating: 6.7 (431 votes)

Release Date: 2020-10-02

Overview: French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.

Rating: 6.689 (301 votes)

Release Date: 1992-12-30

Overview: Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.

Rating: 7.1 (539 votes)