A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.
After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive
Guard at the Jail
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
Crapiúna
After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men of Brazilian "Sertão". As a grown-up, she sets out to find her parent's murderer, but ends up discovering love.
Delegado
Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.
Adaptation of Graciliano Ramos's novel about his arrest and imprisonment.
Angela es condenada a 24 años de prisión por el asesinato de un traficante de drogas en Brasil. En la cárcel su belleza despierta no sólo una desenfrenada pasión en el gobernador, sino también en las demás prisioneras e incluso en las mismas guardias. Sólo el médico de la prisión, conocido de Angela, cree en su inocencia y trata de ayudarla a salir. Pero estalla en prisión una feroz revuelta en contra de los tratos inhumanos recibidos. Ante el caos general un grupo de prisioneras escapa y junto a ellas, Angela. Tras ellas, la furia de la policía y en el camino los peligros propios de la selva, sumado también a la codicia de unos buscadores de diamantes que ven en las fugitivas el precio de una recompensa.
Zé Tulão
In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.
