Portuguese Films
Films are listed alphabetically by the first word of the film's
English title, but the Portuguese title is also listed. If you
cannot find what you are looking for, ask an LTC employee for
assistance. You can search for more information about a particular
film using a very helpful and resource, the Internet
Movie Database. (Clicking will open it in a new window). Films
are subtitled in English unless otherwise noted. To recommend
a Portuguese film that is not yet in the LTC collection, send
an email to Viktor Berberi, LTC Director: berberiv@morris.umn.edu
Title: Bus 174
Director: José Padilha
Starring: Anonymous, Maria Aparecida, Captain Batista, Luanna Belmon
Year: 2003
Run Time: 150 minute
Acclaim/Award: Won Amnesty Award, 2003
Summary: 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.
Format:
DVD |
Title: Central Station Portuguese:
Central do Brasil
Director: Walter
Salles
Starring: Fernanda Montenegro
Year: 1998
Run Time: 113
minutes
Summary: An emotive journey of
a former school teacher, who write letters for illiterate people,
and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the
father he never knew.
Format: DVD |
Title: O Herói
Director: Zézé Gamboa
Starring: Makena Diop, Milton 'Santo' Coelho, Maria Ceiça, Patríca Bull, Neuza Borges
Year: 2005
Run Time: 97 minute
Summary: When he was 15, Vitório was recruited by Angolan army, where he would stay for two decades fighting. In his last mission, he was hit by a mine and lost a leg. After a long time waiting, he finally manages to secure a prothesis. With no job and unable to find his family, he faces indifference and mockery. One night, while sleeping on the street, somebody steals his prothesis. But he finds support on three people: the prostitute Judith, the boy Manu and Joana, Manu's teacher.
Format: DVD |
Title: Me, You, Them Portuguese:
Eu, Tu, Eles
Director: Andrucha
Waddington
Starring: Regina Casé,
Lima Duarte, Stênio Carcia and Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Year: 2000
Run Time: 107
minutes
Acclaim/Award: Best Picture, Best
Actress from Cinema Brazil, Official Selection from the Sundance
Film Festival, Un Certain Regard from the Cannes Film Festival
Summary: A woman longs for love, family and
passion. She uproots herself from her small town to find the
man who can fulfill her desires. Three years later and single
she returns to her hometown and accepts a modest marriage proposal
from her humble neighbor.
Format: DVD |
Title: Orfeu
Director: Carlos Diegues
Starring: Toni Garrido, Patrícia França, Murilo Benício, Zézé Motta, Milton Gonçalves
Year: 1999
Run Time: 110 minute
Summary: In a dangerous but human Rio de Janiro's slum, rises the love affair between Orfeu, a famous composer, and Eurídice, a simple but pretty brunette, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival. A kind of Brazilian Romeo and Juliet, full of samba.
Format: DVD |
Title: Pixote
Director:
Hector Babenco
Starring: Marilia Pera,
Jorge Juliao, Gilberto Moura and Jose Nilson
Year:
1981
Run Time: 127 minutes
Acclaim/Award:
Given four stars from the Chicago Sun-Times
Summary:
A homeless child is hauled off to a crowded detention center
where he witnesses rape and violence. He escapes from the reform
school and he and his friends hit the streets alone.
Format:
DVD |
Title: Xica
Director:
Carlos Diegues
Starring: Zezé Motta,
Walmor Chagas, Altair Lima
Year: 1976
Run Time: 107 minutes
Summary:
The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine
atributes" in order to get power.
Format:
VHS |
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