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7.2
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The Oyster and the Wind (1997)
A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them supplies. Daniel, who not only protects her from her dad's strictness but also teaches her how to be literate, is her source of tenderness. Her dad thinks she should be away from the world - though she wishes she could spend a few days in town. Then one day, as she has her first period and becomes a woman, she starts feeling sexuality through the blowing wind, which she talks to.
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17
5.0
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/23/
2.8
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Through the Shadow (2015)
Laura makes spooky observations as soon as she starts her job as a teacher for two orphan students at a plantation. She concludes that it has something to do with the former caretaker and his romantic partner.
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6.7
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/12/
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/9/
3.3
/1103/

Innocence (1983)
In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the forbidden romance from her father, who disapproves of the relationship.
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6.1
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55
/13/
3.2
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54
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Slightly Out of Tune (2008)
A group of friends come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part of the groundbreaking Brazilian musical movement called Bossa Nova
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13
7.1
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/36/
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3.6
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The Lyre of Delight (1978)
During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she dives into Rio de Janeiro's underworld and meet all kind of criminals. She also goes back in time, to a past carnival, where she thinks she might pin-point the culprit among a group of people.
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5.9
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3.3
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The Dolphin (1987)
According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Dolphin, who transforms into a human to seduce and be loved by women and hated by men. One of her conquests is the daughter of a fisherman, who has a son with the Dolphin. He constantly reappears to seduce her, and even when she marries, he continues to look for her. This provokes the ire of the husband, who wants to kill him anyway.
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Favorite Son (2001)
Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological mother for a transplant. She is reluctantly helped by a Detective.
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6.6
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Em Cima da Terra Embaixo do Céu (1981)
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10
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O Tempo e o Som (1970)
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6.3
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10
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Joana Angélica (1981)
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The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1996)
In the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosius, newly arrived at the village, pities the girl but his interest in her unleashes the jealousy of Rochus and the conflict between passion and celibacy begins.
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6.2
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Na Boca da Noite (1971)
After years lost in a ingrate job, Hugo decides to take a drastic measure: to compensate for the time he lost, he will rob the bank in which he worked all his life. Everything goes well in the execution of the plan, but the appearance of the firm's cleaner can put everything to waste.
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Plantation Boy (1966)
After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies, learns about politics, love and disillusionment.
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50
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Conversa com Cascudo (1977)
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3.4
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Brazil Year 2000 (1969)
Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilemma of integrating into the system or preserving individual freedom, the family moves toward disintegration as the city prepares to launch a space rocket.
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6.5
/53/

Chico Rei (1985)
Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his companions' freedom, becoming Chico Rei, the first black man to own lands in Brazil.
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10
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Arquitetura, A Transformação do Espaço (1972)
A film in three movements. In the first one, we find a historical synthesis of Brazilian architecture, from the slaves' dwellings to the Ministry of Education Building. In the second segment, architects such as Burle Marx, Lina Bo Bardi, Grigori Warchavchik and Joaquim Cardoso talk about architecture's social function. In the third movement, inhabitants of some Brazilian cities discuss the space they live in.
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Rio - do Barroco ao Contemporâneo, um Museu ao Céu aberto (2023)
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Thomaz Farkas, Brazilian (2003)
About the Hungarian photographer, an exponent of the history of the Brazilian documentary, directed by filmmaker Walter Lima Junior and sponsored by Petrobras.


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