Admiring Movies

"The greatest film of all time." — Definitely Not Martin Scorsese A script abandoned halfway through, sudden violence, and absolute chaos. *A...

Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is filled with fleeting love affairs and passing...

Weighted is a short-film about Deacon Walker, who is struggling with his social life, his families ongoing economic crisis, and managing his grades...

A thirty-something aspiring children's author, labeled "meskina" (pity case) by her Moroccan-Dutch community for still being career-less and single,...

José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip...

A paralyzed mother recovers from a stroke during childbirth with care from her husband.

Newly divorced, empty-nester Syd (Lisa Edelstein) navigates the world of online dating. Each date serves as a metaphor in reclaiming her life and...

Kelly is an electronic forró singer in search of ascension. She does shows in the backlands of Brazil, but does not have many opportunities....

After his wife's death, Fernando becomes a quiet and introspective man who raises his son, Daniel by himself. Every night, while the boy is sleeping,...

José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais....

A pickpocket assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro.

A survey of 86 years of Titanicana in popular culture, with the emphasis on movies about (or inspired by) the disaster.

The story of Stress & Relax: a businessman who thinks only of money and a film director who lives for insisting that this invest in their projects....

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that...

Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, gossip and confusion. The neighborhood prepares...

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.