No Control (2007)
Género : Suspense, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 30M
Director : Cris D'amato
Sinopsis
In the movie, Eduardo Moscovis is Danilo, a stage director obsessed with the injustice committed against XIX century farmer Manoel da Motta Coqueiro, case that initiated the process of extinction of death penalty in Brazil. Incited by a beautiful and mysterious woman, Danilo takes a fateful decision. He stages a play about the case with himself as Motta Coqueiro and psychiatric patients playing all the other parts. When the borders between reality and fantasy start to blend, Danilo relives the historical facts in first person, all the time conscious of the tragic doom of his character. Full with uncommon characters and surprising turns, the movie approaches the issue of death penalty in a refreshing new perspective.
A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
Desde la infancia, Marcelo da Rocha es muy difícil de vivir con su identidad. Su mayor placer es imitar a la gente y pasar por otras. La alimentación de los sueños de aprender a volar y convertirse en un piloto como su padre, la madre de Marcelo se escapa y comienza su mayor aventura de su vida, cada vez que se hacen pasar por una persona diferente. Para dar el mayor golpe de su vida: hacerse pasar por el empresario Henrique Constantino, hijo del dueño de la aerolínea Gol, en una gran fiesta en Recife.
Eder (Lázaro Ramos) is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca (Darlan Cunha), a 15 years old boy who is Eder's nephew, wants to prove the innocence of his uncle, he's sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya (Deborah Secco), ex-wife of the deceased. Duca also wants to win the heart of Isa (Sophia Reis), a classmate who seems more interested in his best friend, Kid (Renan Gioelli). To be able to prove his theory, Duca gets help from Isa and Kid.
Obra de ficción que hace una relectura del documental "Omnibus 174" realizado por José Padilha. Se basa en la historia del superviviente de una matanza de ocho niños mendigos, perpetrada por la policía en una iglesia de Río de Janeiro, en julio de 1993. Algunos años después, el chico secuestró el omnibus 174 y retuvo once rehenes durante cinco horas.
A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The maconha cigarrete is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.
Narra la historia de Acerola (Douglas Silva) y Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha), dos amigos adolescentes que se han convertido prácticamente en hermanos en medio de un mundo marcado por la violencia y las bandas callejeras. Laranjinha irá en busca de su padre, al que no conoce, mientras Acerola trata de educar a su propio hijo. Sin embargo, la guerra de bandas pondrá a prueba su antigua amistad y amenazará con sacar a la luz secretos del pasado.
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
André, 19, lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and works as a photocopier operator. He likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a pair of binoculars. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, he tries to get nearer, and goes to her shop to buy something, but finds out that he can't afford it. So he puts the photocopier to other uses, and begins to envisage fishy schemes to earn some money.
Documental de ficción que gira alrededor de la supuesta revelación del gran secreto que deben seguir los seres humanos para alcanzar lo deseado. En Estados Unidos llegó a estar en el puesto nº1 de los DVD más vendidos.
