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, Wagner Moura, Othon Bastos, Gero Camilo, Vinicius de Oliveira, Soia Lira
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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Carandiru 2003 R, 148 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Hector Babenco
Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Goncalves, Ivan de Almeida, Aiton Graca, Maria Luisa Mendonca, Aida Leiner, Rodrigo Santoro, Gero Camilo, Lazaro Ramos, Cair Blat
Based on the real experiences of Dr. Drauzio Varella who fought AIDS in Carandiru Prison in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this story provides a powerful view of life behind prison walls.
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 Man on Fire 2004  R, 146 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony, Radha Mitchell, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Rachel Ticotin, Jesus Ochoa, Mickey Rourke, Angelina Pelaez, Gustavo Sanchez Parra, Gero Camilo, Rosa Maria Hernandez, Heriberto Del Castillo, Mario Zaragoza
A former Marine, Creasy (Denzel Washington), gets a job working as a bodyguard in Mexico City where he is employed by Samuel (Marc Anthony) to watch over Samuel's nine-year-old daughter, Pita (Dakota Fanning). The hard-drinking ex-Marine and the lonely young girl bond; Creasy even becomes Pita's swimming coach. When Pita is kidnapped, Creasy's past toughness rises to the fore as he resolves to track down and kill anyone and everyone involved in the abduction.
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| 1. Behind the Sun (2001)
2. Carandiru (2003)
3. Man on Fire (2004)
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