1. Neighboring Sounds (O Som ao Redor)
An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
2. The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?)
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
It has an average vote of 8.026 on TMDB.
3. Nonfilm (Nonfilm)
A young actor suddenly wakes up in the middle of the shooting of a movie he doesn't understand.
It has an average vote of 5.873 on TMDB.
4. Bye Bye Brazil (Bye Bye Brasil)
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. Ceasefire (Cessez-le-feu)
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
6. Afonso Padilha: Classless (Afonso Padilha: Alma de Pobre)
Brazilian comedian Afonso Padilha dives into his humble beginnings and digs out hilarious stories about his childhood in this very personal set.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
7. Fake Blonde (Falsa Loura)
Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
8. Homo Sapiens (Homo Sapiens)
HOMO SAPIENS is visionary documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter's exploration of the finiteness and fragility of human existence, the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we're gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities, increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature. Comprised of a succession of eerily depopulated, dystopian landscapes from across the world, HOMO SAPIENS offers an at once mesmerizing and chilling vision of what a posthuman future might look like.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber (Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber)
This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. Yesterday There Were Strange Things in the Sky (Ontem Havia Coisas Estranhas no Céu)
The daily life of a family in which countless factors are disturbing: the father is unemployed, the members need to move house, the mother is abducted, and life continues as if nothing had happened.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
11. Leviatã (Leviatã)
(Leviatã)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Russian Red (Vermelho Russo)
Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Mimosas (ميموزا)
A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh through the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be buried with his close ones. But death does not wait. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain, refuse to continue transporting the corpse. Saïd and Ahmed, two rogues travelling with the caravan, say they know the way and promise to take the corpse to its destiny. In another world, Shakib is chosen to travel to the mountains with a mission: to help the improvised caravaneers.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
14. Presente de Deus (Presente de Deus)
(Presente de Deus)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
15. Tie and Red Nail (De Gravata e Unha Vermelha)
Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe of possibilities, expanding the boundaries of the possible and permitted.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
16. Zurück aufs Eis (Zurück aufs Eis)
(Zurück aufs Eis)
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. The Violin Teacher (Tudo Que Aprendemos Juntos)
Laerte, a talented violinist who after failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school at Heliopolis. His path is full of difficulties, but the transforming power of music and the friendship arising between the teacher and the students open the door into a new world.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
18. Neon Bull (Boi Neon)
Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck he uses to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
19. The Left Handed Gun
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
It has an average vote of 6.03 on TMDB.
20. Extremis
A purely observational non-fiction film that takes viewers into the ethically murky world of end-of-life decision making in a public hospital.
It has an average vote of 6.98 on TMDB.
