Brazilian Comedy Movies

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert.

Based on Kaestner's "Emil and the Detectives" tale.

Antonio runs away from home and tries to spend the night at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. There he finds a brazilian girl, an unexpected guest. Johnny is struggling to stage his first theater play in Lisbon. His friendship with the young light technician will make him face his real problems. Débora is passing by, finally returning home. When she goes to the theater, she falls asleep, and is awaken by the protagonist. Three dimensions of the same story.

He loves soccer. She hates it. Perfect ingredients for a love affair.

A homeless man struggles to get by in the utopian city of Brasília.

Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" (The Purchase) a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And, finally, in "Vereda Tropical" (Tropical Trail), a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. The stories are based on prize-winner short stories, from a Playboy contest.

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.

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A lone receptionist wakes up from her post-lunch nap, her body charged with super static electricity. She needs to get rid of all that energy before she fries all the electronics in the office, and to do that, she turns to the wimpy janitor.

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A white hillbilly fathers a mysteriously black boy, who despite the prejudice falls in love with the daughter of a rich farmer.

When he was a child, Vitor was the poster boy for a toothpaste brand. Now adult, he's about to meet a girl he hasn't seen in a long time, when he was still a boy, young and famous.

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It is the story of Pedro, who after being passed over by his brothers, wanders the world in search of a better life, but on the way, finds children who eventually conquer it, and in order to help them, he passes scamming other people he met along the way, telling lies, however, always with the goal of helping him new friends. And kills a cow.

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Taxi driver gets in a jam when he receives a lot of money as inheritance from a distant family member when in fact, the money came from a bank robbery.

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Two authors go look for a business to finance their dream musical.

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A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.

An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.

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A precious necklace is stolen during a convention at Quitandinha Palace, a hotel in which a wives conference is deciding whether or not unfaithful husbands should receive the death penalty.

After a life-changing diagnosis, a promising chef finds hope and humor with the help of a fur-midable dog friend.

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.

A 26 minutes sequence shot while two script writers create a horror story about friends that have to run away and survive in a house from a slasher attacking.

It feels so good to dream of you. It feels so real it fills me with pleasure. And I can't think about anything else.

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Fofuca is a farmer who faces the exploitation of an entrepreneur in a Japanese-Brazilian community. He joins the Japanese immigrants, who found a cooperative where they fight for their rights.

In Petrópolis, sex maniac Severino Barba de Bode flees the forensic asylum, leaving the city in an uproar.

A one-eyed businessman wants to become rich and retrieve his lost eye at any cost. He tries many schemes, and eventually regains his eye with a vengeance: the power of invisibility. He becomes multi millionaire in the meat market and after entering politics he is elected president of Brazil.

Directed by Anne Lise Ale and E.M.Z Camargo, “Valentina Versus” tells the heroic journey of Valentina, Joana, and Ariel. The girlfriends’ traditional RPG night turns into an epic battle when Valentina is persuaded to go to a party. Transporting the language of gamers to cinema, the film ventures into a fantastic universe while revealing that life can be an exciting journey.