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1) Half Brother
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Portuguese
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Sandra's mother has been missing for days. Disoriented and without money, she asks Jorge, her distant half brother, for help. But he is going through a difficult situation: after recording a homophobic aggression, he is being threatened to not release the images.
2) Memory House
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Portuguese
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An Indigenous Black man from the rural North of Brazil, moves to an industrialized Southern town to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes increasingly estranged from the white world.
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Portuguese
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A tall 10-year-old girl who's determined to figure out how the world works, heads out on a heroic adventure to look for the only person who she believes has the answers: the prime minister of Portugal. Her best friend, a very talkative teddy bear named Judy Garland, tags along on her journey through Lisbon.
6) Vazante
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Portuguese
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Forced to marry a slave trader and live on his decaying farmhouse in the Brazilian mountains, young Beatriz faces physical and emotional unrest beyond her years in this lyrical and nuanced historical mood piece from director Daniela Thomas.
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Portuguese
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When he wakes up in the spiritual world after his death, Andre Luiz embarks on a new journey of self-discovery and transformation on the road to the spiritual Astral City. With magnificent art direction, and featuring an amazing score by composer Philip Glass, the film brings to the screen what life is like at the Astral City that hovers in the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
8) Bacurau
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Portuguese
Description
A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Snia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive...
9) Socrates
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Portuguese
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After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.
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Arabian Nights volume 1
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Portuguese
Description
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
11) Tommy Guns
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Portuguese
Description
Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição's audacious and enigmatic Tommy Guns invokes the ghosts of Angola's colonial past while embracing the symbolic power of genre filmmaking. The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country's independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses...
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Arabian Nights volume 2
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Portuguese
Description
Continuation of the Arabian Nights stories by the structure were adapted to modern life in Portugal in three innings and the third chapter "The Owners of Dixie" has three chapters.
14) Behind the Sun
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Portuguese
Description
In the Brazilian badlands of 1910, two families are locked in a bloody, generations-old feud. In one family, the oldest remaining son- distressed by the prospect of death and encouraged by his younger brother- begins to question the cycle of violence. Then, a beautiful woman crosses his path and opens his eyes to life outside his culture's rigid code of honor.
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Portuguese
Description
As the effects of two historic disasters reverberate in the backdrop - the Great Lisbon Earthquake (1755) and the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011) - a love affair unfolds between a Portuguese woman Marina/Mariana (Ana Moreira) and a Japanese man (Tasuku Emoto) transcending time and space, interwoven with a twist for revenge and karmic tragedies. In Portuguese and Japanese with English subtitles.
16) Saint George
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Portuguese
Description
Drowning in debt, unemployed boxer Jorge is on the verge of losing his young son and his Brazilian wife. He is one of shocking amounts of Portuguese families and companies unable to repay their loans in the time of European troika bailout measures. Due to his intimidating physique, Jorge must reluctantly accept a job with a collection agency which drags him into a world of violence and crime.
17) Ship of Sorrows
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Portuguese
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When a shipwreck leaves only a mysterious woman, Ana, alive, a quiet seaside town is shaken to its core. Esmerina and her husband, a fisherman on the island, find their lives turned upside down.
19) The Fever
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Portuguese
Description
Manaus is an industrial city surrounded by the Amazon rainforest. Justino, a 45 years old Desana native, works as a security guard at the cargo port. Since the death of his wife, his main company is his youngest daughter with whom he lives in a modest house on the outskirts of town. Nurse at a health clinic, Vanessa is accepted to study medicine in Brasilia and will need to be leaving soon. As the days go by, Justino is overcome by a strong fever....
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