Bruno Barreto
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This sumptuous English-language '50s period piece recounts the mid-life years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (played by Miranda Otto, Lord of the Rings) when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero - where she would also fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares (butched up to the hilt by beautifully handsome Brazilian TV star Gloria Pires). Initial hostilities between the pair make way for a complicated...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on a true story. A man and his family on a journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycle in search for a good life.
4) Carried away
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Teachers Joseph and Rosalee find their lives turned upside down when a precocious seventeen-year-old girl moves to their small town and Joseph begins an affair with her.
5) Bossa nova
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
Portuguese
Description
Tells the stories of several people in Rio with love problems. There's Mary Ann, a widowed American schoolteacher who has given up on ever finding love again; Pedro, an attorney separated from his wife; and Tania, (the wife) who may want him back. Then there's Roberto, Pedro's shy brother; Acácio, a soccer champ; Sharon, a law intern; and Nadine, a young bohemian who thinks she's found the man of her dreams on the Internet.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Based on the true love story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares. This sumptuous English-language '50s period piece recounts the years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero, where she would fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Political terrorists, in a desperate bid to focus the world's attention on their fight for freedom, kidnap an American ambassador. Now the diplomat's life hangs in the balance-- helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate-- and his fear of the captors themselves!
Publisher
Film Movement Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, This Brazilian Comedy follows the strange events that befall Dona Flor after she is left a widow after the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing). Attempting to marry more wisely the second time around, Dona Flor weds a stable, but boring, pharmacist who has no interest in sex. When she discovers that her new sex life is less than satisfying Dona Flor is visited...
10) A show of force
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"A television reporter risks her career and her life pursuing a shady trail of clues left in the wake of the shooting of two young men at on a mountaintop near a broadcast tower in 1978 Puerto Rico. Were they terrorists or victims of a government conspiracy?"--Http://movies.yahoo.com.
Publisher
New Yorker Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Portuguese
Description
A beautiful young woman marries a very erotic man who is a horrible husband. When he unexpectedly dies, she marries again, but misses the passion of her first marriage...until the ghost of her first husband comes to find her.