Films in the Portuguese language
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LOWER CITY (2005)
Certification18 Our Rating
Deco and Naldinho have known each other since they were kids. They make their living together doing cargo jobs and petty hustling on board the Danny Boy, a motor boat they own as partners. The lads decide to give Karinna a lift on one of their runs and so develops a ménage a trios that will gradually tear the two men apart, jealousy swiftly eroding the brotherhood they once held dear. Lower City is a mesmerising debut from Sergio Machedo a powerful drama with shades of Shakespearian tragedy. find out more...
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MYSTERIES OF LISBON: DISC 1 (2011)
Certification12 Our Rating
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MYSTERIES OF LISBON: DISC 2 (2011)
Certification12 Our Rating
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RIO BREAKS (2012)
Certification12 Our Rating

RIO BREAKS is more than just a film about surfing. It follows the story of two best friends, Fabio and Naama, as they navigate their way between the pitfalls of life in the slums and the joys of surfing on their favorite beach. Their goal: to win the contest and become professional surfers. Thirteen-year-old Fabio and 12-year-old Naama live at Favela do Pavao, an enormous slum near Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pavao is home to Commando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, one of Rio's find out more...

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TABU (2012)
Certification15 Our Rating

Bearing the same title as the F. W. Murnau classic, shot in black and white and divided into two distinctive yet complementary storylines. Whilst the first part, shot in 35mm and in th find out more...

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THE MAN OF THE YEAR (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
Maiquel lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, a brutal place where life is not so much cheap as worthless. He has simple dreams, a life far removed from his present surroundings, but when he inadvertently kills the local spiv he takes on heroic status within the neighbourhood, and, with events well and truly out of his hands, he, rather surreally, becomes a freelance hit man. The Man Of The Year has many unavoidable similarities to the City Of God, the setting, the complacent brutality, the stru find out more...
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THE SECOND MOTHER (2015)
Certification15 Our Rating
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THE VIOLIN TEACHER (2015)
Certification15 Our Rating

The movie tells the story of Laerte (Lázaro Ramos), a talented violinist who after failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school at Heliopolis. His path is full of difficulties, but the transforming power of music and the friendship arising between the teacher and the students open the door into a new find out more...

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WHO KILLED PIXOTE? (1996)
Certification15 Our Rating
Based on the life of Fernando Ramos Da Silva, Who Killed Pixote deals not so much with his sudden fame, after starring in Hector Babencos' searing film about the disposed and criminalized children of Rio De Janeiro, but more his grim fate afterwards. Fernando was ultimately murdered by a brutal and un-yielding social cast system at the hands of those we presume uphold the law. A powerful, angry and heart felt tale that swept the board at the Gramado film Festival. find out more...