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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands [VHS]...

Xica [VHS]...

Carlos Diegues directs this internationally popular 1980 film about a traveling tent show and its various players as the unsteady company tours the cities, villages, and jungles of Brazil. Diegues brings a nimble and inventive sensibility, and the film moves well with a fantasy-laced lyricism and wi...

Boca [VHS]...

Marcel Camus's 1959 update of the Greek myth features an all-black cast and a story set in the frenetic energy of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus, a trolley car conductor and superb samba dancer, is engaged to Mira but in love with Eurydice. For his change of heart, Orpheus and his new doomed lo...

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes) ENGLISH SUBTITLES [VHS]...

Hector Babenco, who went on to direct the acclaimed Kiss of the Spiderwoman, made an international splash with this gritty portrait of juvenile poverty and street crime in Brazil. Pixote (Portuguese slang for "Peewee") is the name of a chubby-cheeked 10-year-old runaway played by real-life slum kid ...

Quilombo [VHS]...

Like cinematic dynamite, City of God lights a fuse under its squalid Brazilian ghetto, and we're a captive audience to its violent explosion. The titular favela is home to a seething army of impoverished children who grow, over the film's ambitious 20-year timeframe, into cutthroat killers, drug lor...

In the opening scenes of Central Station, colorful crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion, setting the tone for a picturesque road movie that charts Brazil's r...