favorite Brazilian Movies?
mark dinan
night, "4 Days in September." It is well acted, has some nice shots of
Rio, and quite entertaining. It also had some nice references to
Gilberto Gil. I'd be curious what movie recommendations people on this
list have for Brazilian movies. Most Brazilian movies I've seen have
great soundtracks, especially City of God, Eu tu eles, and Black
Orpheus.
I'd recommend in no particular order:
1) Black Orpheus - classic, fantastic music. highly entertaining
2) Me, you, them (Eu Tu Eles) - great music by Gil.
3) The year my parents went on vacation
4) City of God
5) Bossa Nova
6) Saravah - Documentary that has Pixinguinha, Baden Powell, Maria
Bethania, Paulinho da Viola et al
7) Carioquinha -choro documentary
8) Central Station
As there are a million brazilian flicks, I'd be curious what other
ones are recommended by the knowledgeable people on this board.
Mark
nono
Hi Mark
Have you seen the BBC 3-part documentary of Brasilian music called
Brasil, Brasil.
It traces the music from the root to contemporary times. It was a real
eye opener for me.
as for movies, there is cidade de homems, tropa de elite, estomago,
etc
Gill Smith
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Only Brazilian film I can remember watching is called "Pixote" or something.
Don't recommend it.
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Gerry
<gill.sm...@googlemail.com> said:
> Only Brazilian film I can remember watching is called "Pixote" or something.
>
> Don't recommend it.
I'm beginning to find your taste a perfect reverse-barometer!
For Mark Dinan's exploration there are a lot of other movies by
Brazilian directors. Additional films I've enjoyed and have gotten
significant press and enthusiasm over the years might include:
Pixote
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
Bye Bye, Brazil
Central Station
Gabriela
Xica da Silva
Carlos Diegues has quite a number of acclaimed movies. There are a few
books out that I've encountered on Brazilian film. Here's a few:
Following is a bigger list to consider. Not all are great or do I
recommend, but all are subtitled in English and available in the USA
somehow someway through facets or greencine or hip video shops in LA
and NYC. I love hearing spoken Brazilian anyway, so sometimes
not-so-interesting movies have their payback anyway.
1.A Partilha (The Inheritance)
This fun Brazilian picture, based on Miguel Falabella's successful
play, follows four very different sisters as they try to divvy up the...
Daniel Filho 2001
2.Abolicao
This indispensable analysis of the black experience in Brazil uses a
deceptively simple tactic for revealing the state of race relations...
Sozimo Bulbul 1988
3.All Night Bodega
A rebellious teen fresh out of jail (Tammy Trull) runs away from home
to escape her domineering mother and her new cop boyfriend. Alone ...
Felix Olivier 2002
4.All Nudity Shall Be Punished
Arnaldo Jabor's adaptation of Nelson Rodriguez's play Toda Nudez Sera
Castigada won the Silver Bear at the 1973 Berlin film festival, an...
Arnaldo Jabor 1973
5.Almost Brothers
A winner of 11 awards at multiple South American festivals, Quase Dois
Irmaos looks at the severe class inequalities in Brazil over a fo...
Lucia Murat 2004
6.Amazon Jail
After directing one of the most notorious "women in prison" movies of
all time (Bare Behind Bars), Oswaldo De Oliveira serves ...
Oswaldo De Oliveira 1982
7.Amor Bandido
A gritty murder mystery from the director of Dona Flor, set in the
glamorous and seedy Copacabana district of Rio de Janeiro. Christina ...
Bruno Barreto 1987
8.Antonio das Mortes
A masterful transformation of native folk art and mystical tradition,
this violent, immensely powerful and original work from Glauber Ro...
Glauber Rocha 1968
9.At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
This psycho-sexual gothic thriller from Brazil's horror auteur Jose
Mojica Marins represents the debut appearance of the evil protagonis...
Jose Mojica Marins 1963
10.Awakenings of the Beast
Banned for 18 years by the Brazilian military dictatorship, this
grotesque film is a bizarre, filmed nightmare of the dangers of drug
ex...
Jose Mojica Marins 1969
11.Bare Behind Bars
The lesbian sex is plentiful and explicit in this Brazilian
sex-tacular--the holy grail of "women in prison" movies. Four gorg...
Oswaldo De Oliveira 1980
12.Behind the Sun
The director of Central Station presents a moving story of young people
caught up in ancestral violence, looking for a way out. The ongo...
Walter Salles 2001
13.Black God, White Devil
A quintessential film from Brazil's Cinema Novo, this film of immense
power from Glauber Rocha is set in the impoverished Northeastern B...
Glauber Rocha 1964
14.Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus' quintessential love story based on the Greek myth of
Orpheus and Eurydice is set against the vivid backdrop of carnival in...
Marcel Camus 1958
15.Blood and Wine: A Brazilian Story
Just outside Sao Paulo in the late 1950s, a simple family is working to
open a store. Their hopes and dreams for the establishment are s...
Joao Batista de Andrade 2006
16.The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
Jose Mojica Marins is on a Christmas break with a seemingly normal
family when strange occurrences disturb the festive mood, in this Bra...
Jose Mojica Marins 1972
One of Brazil's Cinema Novo's guiding spirits, Carlos Reichenbach,
directs this fascinating look at Brazilian love through literature, c...
Carlos Reichenbach 1993
18.Bus 174
A powerful, award-winning examination of the tragic series of events
that followed a desperate bus hijacking in Rio de Janerio in 2000. ...
Jose Padilha 2002
19.Bye Bye Brazil
A small-time travelling sideshow plays over 9,000 miles of backwards
Brazil, a country of primitivism and progress. One of the most orig...
Carlos Diegues 1980
20.Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil
A stagy Brazilian drama that casts a critical eye on the Portuguese
royal family during Brazil's late colonial period. Marieta Severo pl...
Carla Camurati 1995
21.Carnaval
Party like only the cariocas can do with this celebratory look into the
yearly joyous event in Rio de Janeiro. Along with the millions w...
2006
22.Central Station
Fernanda Montenegro delivered a universally acclaimed performance in
this tender and moving drama about a lonely, hardened woman who is ...
Walter Salles 1998
23.The Charcoal People
Academy Award-winning director Nigel Noble's devastating documentary
about the peasant workers who make charcoal for Brazil's steel indu...
Nigel Noble 1999
24.The Children's War
This prize-winning documentary examines both the causes and
consequences of the brutal war of extermination Brazilian society is
waging ...
Sandra Werneck 1991
25.Chronically Unfeasible
This intelligent, if cynical, dissection of Brazilian society revolves
around the interactions of six characters in a restaurant. As the...
Sergio Bianchi 2000
26.Cinema Falado
Pop singer Caetano Veloso examines artists as diverse as Thomas Mann
and Wim Wenders in this ruminative and cerebral film essay. Through...
Caetano Veloso 1986
27.Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
"A lovely road movie, especially captivating" (Time Out London). Peter
Ketnath plays a German expatriate who travels Brazil du...
Marcelo Gomes 2005
28.City of God
Fernando Merielles directed this stunning look at three decades of
violence and unrest in the slums of Rio de Janiero, Brazil. A fast-pa...
Fernando Meirelles 2002
29.City of Men
Capitalizing on the due success of their film City of God, directors
Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund created this hit series for Brazi...
Fernando Meirelles/
Katia Lund 2002-2005
30.City of Men
At once a sequel to City of God and the spinoff TV series City of Men,
this feature-length film directed by Paulo Morelli follows two fa...
Paulo Morelli 2007
31.The Coffin Joe Trilogy
Enter the unholy world of Coffin Joe with three frightening features
from Brazilian director Jose Mojica Marins, who also stars as his s...
Jose Mojica Marins 1963-1969
32.The Dolphin
A sensual tale, set on the shores of Brazil, based on the legend of the
dolphin-man. On nights with a full moon, a dolphin appears in th...
Walter Lima Jr. 1987
33.Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Funny, sexy and intoxicating! Dona Flor is a ribald folktale about a
young widow, her respectable new husband, and her dynamic but dead ...
Bruno Barreto 1977
34.Durval Discos
Durval runs an unhip and run down record store out of the house he
shares with his mother Carmita. One day he hires Celia to help out hi...
Anna Muylaert 2002
35.The Eighth Color of the Rainbow
In this tender, heartwarming tale from Brazil, a poor young farm boy
tries to save his ailing grandmother by selling his prized possessi...
Amauri Tangara 2004
36.Favelas
Takes viewers into the heart of the Brazilian favelas, the slums that
spread uncontrollably through Sao Paulo, Brazil's wealthiest indus...
Chico Teixeira 1989
37.The Films of Arnaldo Jabor (Os Filmes de Arnaldo Jabor)
A collection of nine films from Brazilian director Arnaldo Jabor: O
Circo (1965, 35 mins.), a documentary on declining circus arts in Ri...
Arnaldo Jabor 1965-1990
38.Four Days in September
A first-rate political thriller in the tradition of Z from Bruno (Dona
Flor) Barreto. Based on a true story and set during the days of t...
Bruno Barreto 1997
39.Gabriela
Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Dona Flor) romances Marcello
Mastroianni, a barkeeper in a small Brazilian town in which sex and ...
Bruno Barreto 1983
40.God is Brazilian
In Carlos Diegues' heavenly fable, a man claiming to be God (Antonio
Fagundes) announces that he's stressed and desires a break from the...
Carlos Diegues 2003
41.Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
An anti-government assembly of outlawed footage that's a radical
critique of censorship and authoritarianism. Brazil horror auteur Jose
...
Jose Mojica Marins 1978
42.Happily Ever After
A sizzling sexy drama from Bruno Barreto, the director of Dona Flor and
Her Two Husbands, Happily Ever After stars Regina Duarte as a se...
Bruno Barreto 1986
43.Hour of the Star
The brilliant, critically-acclaimed film by Suzana Amaral, winner at
the Berlin Film Festival, based on a novel by Clarice Lispector. Th...
Suzana Amaral 1986
44.The House of Sand
Filmed on the coastal dunes of northern Brazil, Andrucha Waddington's
(Me You Them) shimmering film tells of generational bonds between ...
Andrucha Waddington 2005
45.How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
One of the high points of Brazil's cinema novo, this wicked black
comedy inspired a furor at Cannes. A French explorer is captured by
an...
Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1971
46.Human Behavior
This dramatic film offers a depiction of the lives of homeless children
in Rio de Janeiro that will stay in your memory long after its b...
Flavio Leandro 1995
47.I Am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth
Filmmaker Vicente Ferraz digs into the history and characters behind
the 1964 Cuban/Russian co-production, I Am Cuba. A poetic, exquisit...
Vicente Ferraz 2004
48.I Love You
Arnaldo Jabor 1983
49.In Cane for Life
Shot during the seven months of the Brazilian sugar cane harvest, this
video portrays what may be the last generation of the nation's 80...
Jorge Wolney Attala 2001
50.Land for Rose
This award-winning documentary examines the popular movement for land
reform in Brazil. The film shows massive demonstrations, marches, ...
Tete Moraes 1987
51.Light Memories of Rio
Examines the history of photography in Brazil, dating from 1839, and
traces the history of the development of Rio de Janeiro as one of t...
Jose Inacio Parente 1987
52.Love for Sale
Hermila Guedes shines in this Brazilian film about a young single
mother who resorts to raffling off her body for one "night of par...
Karim Ainouz 2006
53.Lower City
Childhood friends find their loyalty tested by a shared infatuation
with an intoxicating dancer and prostitute (Alice Braga, City of God...
Sergio Machado 2005
54.Luzia
Set on the vast and beautiful plains of central Brazil, Luzia stars the
alluring Claudia Ohana (one of Brazil's biggest box-office stars...
Fabio Barreto 1988
55.Madame Sata
The underbelly of 1930's Rio de Janeiro comes alive in this portrait of
Joao Francisco dos Santos, the infamous Brazilian drag queen and...
Karim Ainouz 2002
56.The Man Who Copied
The title of this fresh coming-of-age story can be taken quite
literally - the protagonist Andre (Lazaro Ramos) is a clerk at a copy
sto...
Jorge Furtado 2003
57.The Man of the Year
Based on Patricia Melo's novel O Matador, this stellar Brazilian crime
drama stars Murilo Benicio as a feckless laborer who sets of an u...
Jose Henrique Fonseca 2003
58.Mango Yellow
Claudio Assis' debut film is set in an impoverished Brazilian
shantytown where a wide array of sinister characters leer from every
corne...
Claudio Assis 2002
59.Margarette's Feast
Renato Falcao's feature debut harkens back to Brazil's silent cinema
heyday to tell the story of a good-natured factory worker whose sev...
Renato Falcao 2002
60.Me You Them
A poor, peasant woman accepts a marriage of convenience but continues
to accept other lovers, even having children by two of them. When ...
Andrucha Waddington 2000
61.Memories of Prison
Based, like his earlier film Vidas secas, on a book by Graciliano
Ramos, this film is set in the 1930s and is an account of Ramos'
impri...
Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1984
62.The Middle of the World (O Caminho das Nuvens)
Based on true events, this picturesque road movie follows a family's
2000-mile journey in search of a better life. Desperate for a job t...
Vicente Amorim 2003
63.Natal da Portela
The life of a Brazilian musical legend is dramatized in this joyous
feature. Milton Goncalves, one of Brazil's top actors, plays Natal d...
Paulo Cesar Saraceni 1988
64.Orfeu
The Greek myth of Orpheus and his love for the nymph Eurydice is
brought to the screen with intoxicating results in this lush, vibrant
f...
Carlos Diegues 1999
65.The Other Side of the Street
Academy Award-nominee Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) stars in a
superbly acted Hitchcockian thriller. The elderly Regina (Montene...
Marcus Bernstein 2005
66.The Oyster and the Wind
The New York Times describes A Ostra e o Vento as "a mysterious,
intense, well acted and visually alluring exploration of the dark ...
Walter Lima Jr. 1997
67.Pixote
Nothing in recent cinema comes close to Hector Babenco's devastating
account of brutalization and exploitation offered in this film abou...
Hector Babenco 1981
68.Possible Loves
After being stood up by his girlfriend and left alone in a movie
theater, a college student, Carlos (Murilo Benicio), begins to imagine
...
Sandra Werneck 2001
69.Quilombo
From Carlos Diegues, the director of Bye Bye Brazil and Xica, comes a
handsome tale of revolution and conflict set in the mid-1600s. Dis...
Carlos Diegues 1984
70.Romeo and Juliet Get Married
Director Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) adapts
Shakespeare's tragedy into a raucous comedy which pits two families
again...
Bruno Barreto 2005
71.Savage Capitalism
Brazil's outrageously dramatic tele-novellas inspire this tale of
marital infidelity, national betrayal, public scandal, long lost
orpha...
Andre Klotzel 1993
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72.The Story of Fausta
Betty Fari--remembered for her miraculous performance in Bye Bye
Brazil--is Fausta, a quirky cleaning lady whose voluptuous nature
opens...
Bruno Barreto 1988
73.The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures
In a haunted hostel the perverse and unnatural desires of its guests
leap out of the dream world to haunt their waking hours. Bizarre sc...
Marcello Motta 1975
74.The Strange World of Coffin Joe
Three atmospheric episodes of horror shape this chilling triptych: a
perverse dollmaker whose creators take on human form, the allure an...
Jose Mojica Marins 1968
75.Subway to the Stars
From Carlos Diegues, the director of Bye Bye Brazil and Xica, comes
another probing study of life in Brazil. Set in contemporary Rio de ...
Carlos Diegues 1988
76.Taking Aim
In 1985, independent Brazilian filmmaker Monica Frota collaborated with
the Kayapo people of the Brazilian rain forest to develop the fi...
Monica Frota 1993
77.Terra em Transe
The brief story of this important film by Glauber Rocha is the story of
a young poet and journalist who is persuaded by his lover to bec...
Glauber Rocha 1966
78.This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
In this second film in the Coffin Joe series, the demonic character
continues his quest for the perfect woman to bear his child. Along t...
Jose Mojica Marins 1966
79.Tieta do Agreste
From the director of Bye Bye Brazil, Tieta of Agreste stars Sonia Braga
(The Kiss of the Spider Woman) as the rich and powerful widow of...
Carlos Diegues 1996
80.To the Left of the Father
Directed by celebrated Brazilian TV director Luiz Fernando Carvalho, To
the Left of the Father details the strained relationship between...
Luiz Fernando Carvalho 2001
81.Vidas Secas
A pioneering work from Brazil's Cinema Novo, Nelson Pereira dos
Santos's film follows the plight of an impoverished family who wanders
t...
Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1963
82.Who Killed Pixote?
In Hector Babenco's acclaimed 1981 feature, Pixote, child star Fernando
Ramos da Silva brought his own life experiences to the lead role...
Jose Joffily 1996
83.Women in Fury
Textbook "women-in-prison" fare, set in the jungles of Brazil, where an
innocent woman is caged in a brutal institution after ...
Michele Massimo Tarantini 1985
84.Xica
Carlos Diegues' comedy concerns Xica (Zeze Motta), a beautiful black
slave who uses her sexual charm and savvy to benefit from Brazil's ...
Carlos Diegues 1976
85.The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
"Warm, sweet, and nostalgic" (New York Times), this second feature from
Brazilian filmmaker Cao Hamburger is set in 1970, when...
Cao Hamburger 2006
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A Windows Media plugin is required, and the films take a while to
load. There's a search engine, but don't expect subtitles.
The wonderful short "Pixinguinha e a Velha Guarda do Samba" used to be
available for watching here, but it's currently off the roster.
However, there are other films with music. I just watched the animated
short "Alma Carioca - Um Choro de Menino" that evokes the spirits (and
the playing) of Pixinguinha, Donga, and João da Baiana.
At this minute I'm watching a 20-minute documentary about Sérgio
Ricardo, "Enquanto a Tristeza não Vem."
--
Daniella
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mark dinan
Thanks!
Mark
On Sep 23, 7:46 am, Gerry <somewh...@sunny.calif> wrote:
> On 2008-09-23 02:02:09 -0700, "Gill Smith"
> the 1964 ...
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Gill Smith
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> On 2008-09-23 02:02:09 -0700, "Gill Smith" <gill.sm...@googlemail.com>
> said:
>
>> Only Brazilian film I can remember watching is called "Pixote" or
>> something.
>>
>> Don't recommend it.
>
> I'm beginning to find your taste a perfect reverse-barometer!
I was about to ask "what is this film about???" when I thought hmmm, maybe
it'll come round again. . .
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thomas
Sometimes I watch that Brazilian tv show "Mandrake" on HBO. It's
dubbed into Spanish, with English subtitles. That is annoying. I've
watched the first four episodes so far, and 3 and 4 both had basically
the same plot. So it's not great art, but visually interesting. Also,
the pilot episode had a classic Jorge Ben song, and the show's theme
song is Mingus.