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The Middle of the World

  Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys Read More

Me You Them

  A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village Read More

Lolita

  In early adolescence, Humbert fell hopelessly and tragically in love with a girl his own age, and, as he grew into adulthood, he never lost his obsession with “nymphets,” Read More

The Future

  When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Read More

Hipsters

  Set in mid-1950s Moscow, the film depicts the Soviet stilyagi subculture, along with their struggle for self-expression within the prevailing reality of the Soviet repression.  While the Cold War Read More

Fiddler on the Roof

  Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway musical about life among the Jewish community of a pre-revolutionary Russian village. A poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, Read More

Bus 174

  This 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. Read More

Betibú

  On a day like any other day, in a peaceful and well guarded private neighborhood, Pedro Chazarreta is found dead. News of the death spreads quickly: Chazarreta is not Read More

Doctor Zhivago

  Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia circa World War I and Read More

Married to the Mob

  An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband’s murder while being pursued by a Read More