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The Guns

1963 · Movie · 114 min. · Brazil

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Átila Iório · Nelson Xavier · Maria Gladys · Leonidas Bayer

Plot In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit.

7.1

33 votes

7.1

33 votes

Vidas secas

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · Brazil

7.1

399 votes

7.1

399 votes

The Turning Wind

1962 · Movie · 78 min. · Brazil

6.9

341 votes

6.9

341 votes

Black God, White Devil

1964 · Movie · 120 min. · Brazil

Direction Glauber Rocha

Cast Geraldo Del Rey · Yoná Magalhães · Othon Bastos · Maurício do Valle

Plot Fictionalized account of the adventures of hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism. The movie follows Antonio as he witnesses the descent...

6.8

765 votes

6.8

765 votes

Anguished Land

1967 · Movie · 106 min. · Brazil

Direction Glauber Rocha

Cast Jardel Filho · Paulo Autran · José Lewgoy · Glauce Rocha

Plot In the hypothetical Latin-American country of Eldorado, the idealistic and anarchist poet and journalist Paulo Martins (Jardel Filho) fights against the populist governor, Felipe Vieira (José Lewgoy), and the conservative...

6.8

505 votes

6.8

505 votes

Antonio das Mortes

1969 · Movie · 94 min. · Brazil

6.7

412 votes

6.7

412 votes

Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês

1971 · Movie · 84 min. · Brazil

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Arduino Colasanti · Ana Maria Magalhães · José Kleber · Gabriel Atcanjo

Plot In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portugueses. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the...

6.6

71 votes

6.6

71 votes

The Unscrupulous Ones

1962 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

6.4

39 votes

6.4

39 votes

The Red Light Bandit

1968 · Movie · 92 min. · Brazil

Direction Rogério Sganzerla

Cast Helena Ignez · Paulo Villaça · Pagano Sobrinho · Luiz Linhares

Plot The story of a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he...

6.3

48 votes

6.3

48 votes

Macunaima

1969 · Movie · 110 min. · Brazil

6.1

175 votes

6.1

175 votes

Gods and the Dead

1970 · Movie · 97 min. · Brazil

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Norma Bengell · Othon Bastos · Ítala Nandi · Nelson Xavier

Plot In the 1930's, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who had already been shot 7 times, gets involved in the battle...

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Cinco vezes Favela

1962 · Movie · 92 min. · Brazil

Direction Miguel Borges · Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · Carlos Diegues · Marcos Farias

Cast Flávio Migliaccio · Haroldo de Oliveira · Milton Gonçalves · Abdias do Nascimento

Plot Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

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The Dare

1965 · Movie · 81 min. · Brazil

Direction Paulo Cesar Saraceni

Cast Isabella · Joel Barcellos · María Bethânia · Sérgio Britto

Plot Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who...

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The Brave Warrior

1969 · Movie · 80 min. · Brazil

Direction Gustavo Dahl

Cast Paulo César Peréio · Mário Lago · Ítalo Rossi · Maria Lúcia Dahl

Plot Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government, so he slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously...

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Pindorama

1970 · Movie · 95 min. · Brazil

Direction Arnaldo Jabor

Cast Maurício do Valle · Ítala Nandi · Jesus Pingo · Hugo Carvana

Plot In the Sixteenth Century, in Brazil, the founder of Pindorama realizes that nobody works in the anarchic village. When the king arrives in town, there is a fight for power...

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Hunger for Love

1968 · Movie · 73 min. · Brazil

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Arduino Colasanti · Manfredo Colasanti · Olga Danitch · Neville de Almeida

Plot Alfredo, a former revolutionary who is blind, deaf and mute, and his hedonistic wife are visited in their seaside house by another couple, just arriving from New York: a frustrated...

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Ganga Zumba

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Antonio Pitanga · Lea Garcia · Eliezer Gomes · Luiza Maranhão

Plot The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

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Bahia de Todos os Santos

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction José Hipolito Trigueirinho Neto

Cast Lola Brah · Sadi Cabral · Francisco Contreras · Maria Lúcia Dahl

Plot Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a conflict between strikers and the police. His mistress tries to keep him from his companions,...

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