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Antônia (2006)
Director: Tata Amaral
Starring: Negra Li, Leilah Moreno
Determined to escape poverty, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form a rap group.
[DVD]

      
Black Orpheus (1959)
Orfeu negro
Director: Marcel Camus
Starring: Marpessa Dawn, Breno Mello
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold during Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Bossa nova (2000)
Director: Bruno Barreto
Starring: Antônio Fagundes, Amy Irving
A series of coincidences weaves a comically romantic web around a class of English students in Rio de Janeiro.
[VHS ]

      
Central Station (1988)
Central do Brasil
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira
A former teacher who makes a living writing letters for the illiterate takes an orphan boy across Brazil in search of his father.
[VHS ]

      
City of God (2002)
Cidade de Deus
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Leandro Firmino, Alexandre Rodrigues
A young man growing up in Rio's most notorious slum looks to photography as his way out.
[DVD]

      
City of men (2007)
Cidade dos homens
Director: Paulo Morelli
Starring: Darlan Cunha, Douglas Silva
In a war between rival drug gangs in Rio's favelas, two friends discover things about their fathers that will shatter their relationship.
[DVD]

      
Foreign land (1996)
Terra estrangeira
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Alberto Alexandre, Fernando Alves Pinto
An aspiring actor accepts a delivery job from a shady antique dealer and travels to Lisbon carrying a violin filled with uncut diamonds.
[VHS ]

      
Me, you, them (2000)
Eu, tu, eles
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Regina Casé, Lima Duarte
A woman and her three husbands live in the same house in a poor, arid village in northeast Brazi.
[VHS ]

      
Romeo and Juliet get married (2005)
O casamento de Romeu e Julieta
Director: Bruno Barreto
Starring: Luana Piovani, Marco Ricca
An obsessed football fan falls for the daughter of the rival team's club president.
[DVD]

      
The house of sand (2005)
Casa de areia
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres
A woman is left a widow in a wilderness in 1910 and spends 59 years hopelessly trying to escape it.
[DVD]

      
The year my parents went on vacation (2006)
O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias
Director: Cao Hamburger
Starring: Germano Haiut, Simone Spoladore
12-year-old Maruo is left to fend for himself when his parents 'go on vacation' during the Communist regime in 1970s Brazil.
[DVD]



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