Movies and TvShows featuring "cinema-pernambucano" theme.
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Neighboring Sounds follows the residents of a high-rise apartment building in Recife, Brazil, and explores the tensions and class differences that arise in their daily lives. As the film progresses, a series of events including car break-ins, threats, and revenge plots unfold, revealing the hidden anxieties and secrets of the characters. The film delves into themes of urban development, surveillance, and social dynamics in modern-day Brazil.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures follows a German man as he hitchhikes and travels through Northeast Brazil in the 1940s. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and adventures, including learning to drive, listening to a radio, and facing the effects of World War Two.
In the arid lands of Pernambuco, a young boy struggles to survive amidst the harsh realities of poverty, drought, and violence. With little support from his family and a bleak future, he fights against all odds to change his destiny and find hope.
In the poverty-stricken sugarcane fields of Brazil, a sadistic man forces a 16-year-old girl into prostitution and subjects her to sexual torture. The film delves into the bleak and brutal world of poverty, exhibitionism, and violence.
Mango Yellow is a daring drama that explores themes of voyeurism, animal slaughter, seduction, and poverty in Brazil.
A film photo-montage about an old house that belonged to a traditional local family that was later demolished.
Tattoo is a bold and provocative drama that takes place during the Brazilian military dictatorship. It follows the story of a young soldier who becomes involved with the counterculture movement and the cabaret theater scene. The film explores themes of repressed homosexuality, radicalism, and the struggle for freedom and self-expression. With its authentic period setting and powerful performances, Tattoo offers an intimate and thought-provoking look at a pivotal moment in Brazilian history.
A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.
When a rare vinyl record is discovered, it brings supernatural powers to anyone who listens to it. As people become obsessed with the record, their lives take a dark turn filled with mystery and danger.
Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.
Bethânia returns to her land, where the family’s old sugar mill was built, the Wanderley Mill. Between photographs, fantastic creatures, bills to pay and workers claiming their rights to the land, Bethânia faces herself in a present where both the past and the future look menacing.
After 10 months of a self imposed lockdown, Francisco wants to have sex.
Explore the vanished movie palaces of Downtown Recife, now an archaeological site, revealing lost aspects of society. Pictures of Ghosts showcases the untold story of a bygone era.
A not very good little digital still camera, our little neighbours and a football. Home movie.
A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.
Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show how they made the film an audience and critical success.
No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.
Matheus is the owner of a very simple amusement park and has the dream of visiting the famous parks in the USA. But when his family finally gets the opportunity to travel abroad for the first time, things don't go as expected.
Lucidreide's home becomes a hell after the arrival of her mother-in-law, who evicted, decides to live there. Abandoned by her husband Dermirréi and unable to lead her home in front of her five children, she only has the desire to go away. Without understanding the size of a space voyage, Lucidreide accepts to participate in a mission that will take the first man to the Red Planet and is signed uo by the son of her bosses, Tavinho. He recalls that his father was selecting a person to integrate a training that would take a Brazilian to Mars. Believing that she is going to make her children happy, she leaves for training at Cape Canaveral in the United States.