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Antônia
(2006)
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Director:
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Tata Amaral
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| Starring:
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Negra Li, Leilah Moreno
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Determined to escape poverty, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form a rap group.
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Black Orpheus
(1959)
Orfeu negro
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Director:
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Marcel Camus
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| Starring:
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Marpessa Dawn, Breno Mello
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The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold during Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
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Bossa nova
(2000)
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Director:
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Bruno Barreto
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| Starring:
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Antônio Fagundes, Amy Irving
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A series of coincidences weaves a comically romantic web around a class of English students in Rio de Janeiro.
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Central Station
(1988)
Central do Brasil
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Director:
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Walter Salles
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| Starring:
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Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira
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A former teacher who makes a living writing letters for the illiterate takes an orphan boy across Brazil in search of his father.
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City of God
(2002)
Cidade de Deus
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Director:
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Fernando Meirelles
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| Starring:
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Leandro Firmino, Alexandre Rodrigues
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A young man growing up in Rio's most notorious slum looks to photography as his way out.
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City of men
(2007)
Cidade dos homens
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Director:
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Paulo Morelli
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| Starring:
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Darlan Cunha, Douglas Silva
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In a war between rival drug gangs in Rio's favelas, two friends discover things about their fathers that will shatter their relationship.
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Foreign land
(1996)
Terra estrangeira
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Director:
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Walter Salles
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| Starring:
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Alberto Alexandre, Fernando Alves Pinto
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An aspiring actor accepts a delivery job from a shady antique dealer and travels to Lisbon carrying a violin filled with uncut diamonds.
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Me, you, them
(2000)
Eu, tu, eles
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Director:
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Andrucha Waddington
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| Starring:
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Regina Casé, Lima Duarte
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A woman and her three husbands live in the same house in a poor, arid village in northeast Brazi.
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Romeo and Juliet get married
(2005)
O casamento de Romeu e Julieta
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Director:
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Bruno Barreto
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| Starring:
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Luana Piovani, Marco Ricca
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An obsessed football fan falls for the daughter of the rival team's club president.
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The house of sand
(2005)
Casa de areia
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Director:
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Andrucha Waddington
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| Starring:
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Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres
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A woman is left a widow in a wilderness in 1910 and spends 59 years hopelessly trying to escape it.
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The year my parents went on vacation
(2006)
O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias
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Director:
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Cao Hamburger
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| Starring:
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Germano Haiut, Simone Spoladore
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12-year-old Maruo is left to fend for himself when his parents 'go on vacation' during the Communist regime in 1970s Brazil.
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