The Brazilwood Man

The Brazilwood Man 1982

4.80

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.

1982

Conjugal Warfare

Conjugal Warfare 1975

5.30

Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.

1975

Cinema Novo

Cinema Novo 2016

6.70

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

2016

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City 1968

7.50

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

1968

Gordos e Magros

Gordos e Magros 1976

1

After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.

1976

Salt Kiss

Salt Kiss 2007

2.00

A confirmed bachelor tries to persuade his recently engaged friend back to his old carefree life.

2007

O Aleijadinho

O Aleijadinho 1978

6.80

O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more than 20 years earlier. de Andrade dedicated the film to his father, who had sent him on the expedition.

1978

Paradise Inc.

Paradise Inc. 1970

1

Brazilian mobsters kidnap daughter of billionaire and demand her boyfriend lose a high stakes poker match for her safe return.

1970