Santa Marta - Duas Semanas no Morro - Eduardo Coutinho [1987]

 

Santa Marta - Duas Semanas no Morro [1987]

The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence.

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Boca De Lixo - Eduardo Coutinho [1992]

Boca De Lixo [1992] 

The daily routine of poor people of Itaoca, São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro, who make a living out of revolving garbage.

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Cabra Marcado Para Morrer - Eduardo Coutinho [1985]

 Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later [1985]

A filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.

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Il vangelo secondo Matteo - Pier Paolo Pasolini [1964]

 The Gospel According to St. Matthew [1964]

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

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La grande bellezza - Paolo Sorrentino [2013]

The Great Beauty [2013]

 Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

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The Red Shoes - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger [1948]

The Red Shoes [1948]

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

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The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock [1935]

 

The 39 Steps [1935]

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

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