Vazante
2017A white landowner’s young wife hangs out with a young Negro slave whenever her husband is away.
Archives: Movies
Passion On The Beach (aka Paixão na Praia)
1971Débora, an industrialist’s wife, takes her husband to the airport and, returning home, finds two strangers who had broken in. One is violent and immature, but the other has a self-assured way that charms her, and she falls in love. But the arrival of a baroness, the men’s accomplice, will explain their intentions.
360
2012Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s classic La Ronde, screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles’ 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix into a single, mesmerizing narrative.
Na Violência do Sexo
1978Brazil has released its share of wildly insane genre films that include the likes of GISELLE (a softcore erotica romp that includes a male-on-male encounter,and a male-on-male rail sequence), VIOLENCE AND FLESH, and this rail/revenge yarn about a newly married couple whose honeymoon is crashed by a quartet of lowly criminals (led by a David Hess-looking guy) that tie up and beat up the groom while they strip naked and rail his wife, with the […]
City of God
2002Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life […]
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
1976A wife cheats on her current husband with the ghost of her dead ex-husband.