Behind the Sun 2001  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Jose Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Flavia Marco Antonio, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Caio Junqueira, Mariana Loureiro, Servilio De Holanda, Everaldo Pontes
This award-winning film, set in a Brazilian desert during April, 1910, reveals the effects on feuding families who see honor in revenge. Tonho (Rodrigo Santoro) receives orders from his father to avenge his brother's murder and performs the deed even though he knows that he will be the next one marked for death. For a brief time, Tonho and his young brother, Pacu (Ravi Ramos Lacerda), escape by running away with a traveling circus. But honor weighs heavily, and they return home to face Tonho's fate.
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Mango Yellow 2002  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Amarelo Manga
Director: Claudio Assis
Cast: Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Leona Cavalli, Dira Paes, Chico Diaz, Conceicao Camaroti, Magdale Alves, Jones Melo, Taveira Junior, Everaldo Pontes, Cosme Soares
Existing on the fringe of Brazilian society, gay cook Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele) has fallen for butcher Wellington (Chico Diaz) who is married to evangelical Kika (Dira Paes) while making time with Dayse (Magdale Alves). Their lives cross and often collide in a bar and hotel in Recife while they search for meaning in their poverty-filled lives.
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| 1. Behind the Sun (2001)
2. Mango Yellow (2002)
aka: Amarelo Manga
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