고뇌하는 땅 (1967)

Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.

Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them that he is French, they believe he is Portuguese. The Frenchman becomes their slave, and maritally lives with Seboipepe.

Feature documentary about ex-maverick filmmaker António de Macedo.

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.

A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.

Gabriel decides to go back to his home town. In the way, he meets "El Signo del Caos".

Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.

Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The slope is blown up, advancing to the land near the shacks. Slum dwellers are warned that new explosions can cause damage. The community decides to place itself on the slope, preventing another explosion; without attitude, the foreman gives up on blowing up the hill.

Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.

열네 살 소년 앙트완은 마음 둘 곳이 없다. 엄마와 새아버지는 앙트완에게 무관심하고, 딱히 말썽을 피우려 한 것도 아닌데 학교에선 선생님에게 문제 학생으로 찍혀버렸다. 유일한 위안은 가장 친한 친구 르네와 함께 학교를 빼먹고 영화관에 가거나 거리를 돌아다니는 것. 숙제를 빼먹고, 무단 결석을 하는 등 갑갑한 현실을 벗어나고자 사소한 일탈을 일삼던 앙트완은 급기야 쪽지를 남긴 채 가출하고 가벼운 범죄를 저지르지만 냉혹한 어른들의 세상에서 그가 원하는 자유는 점점 멀어지기만 하는데...

인류에게 문명의 지혜를 가르쳐 준 검은 돌기둥의 정체를 밝히기 위해서 디스커버리호의 선장 보우만과 승무원 풀은 목성을 향해서 날아간다. 하지만 평온하던 디스커버리호에 갑자기 재난이 찾아온다. 우주선 내부에서 일어난 재난은 컴퓨터 HAL이 반란을 일으킨 것. HAL은 풀을 우주선 밖으로 던져버리고, 보우만까지도 모선 밖으로 끌어내지만 그는 필사의 노력으로 HAL을 제압한다. 보우만은 마침내 목성 궤도에서 문제의 검은 돌기둥을 발견하지만, 그 순간 우주의 급류에 휘말리게 된다. 보우만은 지구로의 귀환을 위해 노력하고, 신비한 시간의 흐름을 경험하는데...