Movies: Angelo Defanti

Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation....

Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estacio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she needs is a good coffin. A tribute to Leon Hirszman's "The Deceased", the first film starred by Ferna...

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On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for lunch. The dish of the day is feijoada. This film is an adaptation of the short story "Feijoada Compl...

Hi, I'm a German Shepherd Dog. Thanks to my extraordinary learning capacity, loyalty and versatility, I am responsible for watching over the security of this flock. Unfortunately, I do not bring good news today....

The covers of Brazilian newspaper "Meia Hora" have always drawn the public's attention. They became viral both in the internet and in the streets for their unusual and humorous sentences. This documentary shows how the making of the newspaper works....

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Demônia is a devilish being. Or an evil woman.​...

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Marcelo lives a cloudy day in Rio....

Carlos Sebastião Prata Filho watches, for the first time, an interview given in 1963 by his father: Grande Othello. Alongside his four children, Grande Othello talks about his first experience in theater. Roquete Pinto, the interviewer, then starts a...

A bedroom. A husband, a lover, a closet. A pair of shoes. Oh, and a wife... and a camera crew....

Over the years, the monthly meetings of the Stew Club – a fraternity that has gathered seven long-time friends for decades – has gone from rituals of power to melancholic failure assemblies. The end would be its only worthy fate. Until a mysterious c...

Luis Fernando Verissimo watches the world around him bristle as he approaches his 80th birthday....

Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Announced worldwide as the main stage for Brazilian social ills, Rio's favelas are, paradoxically, among the most seductive postcards in Rio de Janeiro. Immersed in the tours through Favela da Rocinha, the documentary investigat...

André is the son of Sérgio, both two of the greatest brazilian writers....

One movie, one couple, one night. A tribute to Antonioni's cinema....

Rafael lives with his grandmother in Copacabana. After some incidents he sees the world from a new perspective....

Based on the historical fact of the arrival of the Portuguese royal family to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, Cidade Invisível proposes an upside-down archeology when questioning the myth of the Marvelous City and the irreverence of the Carioca....

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