Andrea Barata Ribeiro
1) Blindness
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A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly break down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague goes...
2) Adrift
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
It is the 80's, and fourteen year-old Filipa is spending her vacation at Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, with her father, Mathias, her alcoholic mother, Clarice, and her two younger siblings in their beach house. When Filipa feels that the relationship of her parents is deteriorating, she snoops in her father's office. There she finds pictures of Mathias with his American lover Ângela hidden in a drawer of his desk. When Mathias and Clarice announce to...
3) City of God
Pub. Date
©2003
Description
Built in the 1960s, Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a sprawling housing project built to keep the poor as far as possible from Rio's glamorous beaches and resorts. By the 1980s, it has degenerated into a war zone so dangerous that visitors from outside risk being shot to death on sight, a poisonous stew of poverty, drugs, and crime. "If you run away, they get you, and if you stay, they get you, too," says Rocket, who wants to be a photographer....
4) Xingu
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This gripping historical drama tells the inspiring true story of the three Villas-Bôas brothers, Orlando (Felipe Camarago), Claudio (Joao Miguel) and Leonardo (Caio Blat), and their mission to protect the indigenous Amazon natives. Seeking adventure, the brothers join the "March to the West," an expedition to explore the Amazon rainforest. After befriending the native tribes, they become the leading advocates for the creation of the Xingu National...
6) City of Men
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An inspiring tale of friendship and family in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. In a culture dictated by violence and run by gangs, Acerola and Laranjinha are like brothers. Now almost 18, Laranjinha seeks the father he never met, as Acerola struggles to raise his own son. But when they find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends confront a shocking secret from their past.
7) Blindness
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When a plague of blindness strikes and threatens all of humanity, one woman feigns the illness to share an uncertain fate in quarantine, where society is breaking down as fast as their crumbling surroundings. Based on José Saramago's novel, this intense and gritty thriller will lead you on a journey where the only thing more terrifying than being blind is being the only one who can see.
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