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Two Rabbits is a 2012 Brazilian action film written and directed by Afonso Poyart. The film features innovations that were not common in Brazilian films, including explosions, animations, elaborate special effects and pop culture references. It was released in Brazil on January 20, 2012. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Coelhos In São Paulo, the scheme of the corrupt DA Júlia and her mate, the lawyer Henrique with the gangster Maicom is discovered and sent to the Internal Affairs. Maicom is responsible for kidnappings, murderers and heists and his only chance is the support of the corrupt and powerful assemblyman Jader Kerteis that demands 2 million-dollars to help him. Meanwhile the "paulistano" Edgar, who killed a mother and her son two years ago in a car accident, invites the "motoboy" and thief Velinha to steal the escorted courier that is carrying the pouch with the money to be delivered to Jader. How their lives are entwined? source: http:...

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures is a 2005 Brazilian film directed by Marcelo Gomes starring João Miguel and Peter Ketnath. It was Brazil's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The movie is based on story narrated by director's great-uncle Ranulpho Gomes, who sold aspirins in Brazil during the 40's. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema,_Aspirins_and_Vultures In 1942, the lonely German Johann travels through the arid roads in the country of the Northeast of Brazil in his truck selling aspirins in small villages, using advertisement movies to promote the medicine. He meets the drifter Ranulpho, who intends to go to Rio de Janeiro seeking a better life, and gives a ride to the man. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373760/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** Slow...

Estômago, a Gastronomic Story, is a 2007 Brazilian–Italian film directed by Marcos Jorge. The film won several awards. It was shot in several locations of Curitiba, Paraná. The cast: João Miguel, Fabiula Nascimento, Babu Santana, Carlo Briani and Zeca Cenovicz. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%B4mago In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato finds an alternative way, a life of his own: he cooks in order to survive and find a place in society. He arrives in town without a penny in his pockets and starts working as help in a decadent bar, a nasty place, lost amid the urban desert. He sleeps in the storage room on the back, and under a cold neon light learns how to fry "pastel" and "coxinhas", outdoing his "master", Zulmiro, the owner of the bar. Nonato is ignorant, but talented. He knows how to work the kitchen, soon others realize it too. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10...

Vai que Dá Certo (no English title yet) is a 2013 Brazilian comedy film directed by Mauricio Farias, written by Farias, Alexandre Morcilo and Fábio Porchat who also stars along with Gregório Duvivier, Bruno Mazzeo, Lúcio Mauro Filho, Natália Lage and Danton Mello. It was shot in Paulínia and Campinas, cities in the state of São Paulo. source: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai_que_D%C3%A1_Certo The film follows the reunion of five young adult friends who share the frustration of not having achieved the success they wanted in their lives. The possibility to recover the time they lost arises through a tempting and risky proposal: the assault of a carrier of values. The supposedly perfect crime that promised to transform their trajectories fulfills its purpose, but not exactly as planned. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai_que_D%C3%A1_Certo ***SPOILER ALERT*** There's something that only some Portuguese speakers will find funny, tha...

Brainstorm (Portuguese: Bicho de Sete Cabeças) is a 2000 Brazilian drama film directed by Laís Bodanzky and written by Luiz Bolognesi based on the autobiographical book Canto dos Malditos by Austregésilo Carrano Bueno. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicho_de_Sete_Cabe%C3%A7as A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs in his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Sent to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director gives this movie a sensation of reality that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through ch...