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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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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Me You Them 2000 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Cast: Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Nilda Spencer, Diogo Lopes, Helena Araujo, Iami Reboucas, Lucien Paulo, Borges Cunha
This improbable story, with polygamy as its subject, centers around Darlene (Regina Case) who bears four children–each by a different man. It represents Brazil's entry for the Foreign Films category at the Academy Awards 2000.
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Midnight 1998  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
Cast: Fernanda Torres, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Matheus Nachtergaele, Nelson Sargento, Tonico Pereira, Aulio Ribeiro, Carlos Vereza, Luciana Bezerra, Antonio Gomes, Nelson Dantas
It is midnight, 31 December 1999, and the fireworks show is on over Rio de Janeiro beach. Many stories take place during this event, but one is at the center as two people's lives intersect: an escapee from prison, Joao (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) and speech therapist Maria (Fernanda Torres) whose boyfriend Pedro (Carlos Vereza) just left her.
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| 1. Behind the Sun (2001)
2. Carandiru (2003)
3. Me You Them (2000)
4. Midnight (1998)
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