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O Contestado - Restos Mortais (2012)

Lost Zweig (2003)

The life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book "Brasil, País do Futuro" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and his wife Lotte, in a mysterious death pact, decided to kill themselves in the week following 1942 Carnival, in Br ...

Cruz e Sousa - The Banished Poet (1999)

Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. Died young, at 37, and dragged the great love of his life, Gavíria ...

Our Indians (1995)

Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the firs ...

Zweig: A Morte em Cena (1995)

Rádio Auriverde (1990)

A documentary discussing Brazil's efforts of taking part on World War II by sending troops from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) to Italy. ...

Brazil War: The Truth about The Paraguayan War (1987)

Between 1864 and 1870, South America was the scene of the biggest and bloodiest armed conflict of the century, known as the "Paraguay War," or "Big War," for Paraguayans. Mixing reality and fiction, the documentary discusses this "draft" of World War I, wh ...

O auto-retrato de Bakun (1984)

Miguel Bakun's life and work, narrated by a medium in trance and by people who knew him. He is considered the greatest painter from Paraná, Brazil, and killed himself in 1963, at 54. ...

Life and Blood of a Polak (1983)

A Escala do Homem (1982)

A Araucária: Memória em Extinção (1981)

The film documents extensive forest fires in Brazilian reserves, violent destruction, and irrational deforestation associated with a lack of ecological awareness. ...

The Guarani Republic (1981)

Formed by Jesuit missions in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, between 1610 and 1767, it congregated about 150,000 indigenous people in almost fifty "reductions" (Jesuit cities). The Christian-Communist Republic of the Guaranis was decimated by atta ...

Revolution of 30 (1980)

Hallelujah Gretchen (1976)

A German family moves to a small town in the interior of the state of Paraná, Brazil, and buys a hotel there, which soon becomes sort of a meeting point for Nazi sympathizers. ...

The War of Pelados (1970)

In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados. ...

Lance Maior (1968)

University student who works in a bank experiences a personal crisis: he is torn between his ambitions and the temptation to engage in the armed movement against the military dictatorship of the time, in Brazil. At the same time, his love life is also conf ...

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself. ...

Fantasy Pea (1985)

Fancy Pea is a Brazilian documentary produced, written and directed by Werner Schumann, in the year 1985, reporting facts about the life and work of the Brazilian writer, poet, translator and professor Paulo Leminski. The program was shown on TV in 1985 an ...