Movies: Karen Akerman

  • 2013
    A Wolf at the Door

    A Wolf at the Door (2013)

    A Wolf at the Door

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    Based on real events, and set in Rio de Janeiro, A Wolf at the Door is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown ...

    A Wolf at the Door
  • 2024
    Greice

    Greice (2024)

    Greice

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    Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit....

    Greice
  • 2015
    Hopefuls

    Hopefuls (2015)

    Hopefuls

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    Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives ...

    Hopefuls
  • 2024
    The Fisherman's Daughter

    The Fisherman's Daughter (2024)

    The Fisherman's Daughter

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    Samuel, the last free-diving fisherman, has lived isolated in the island of La Aguja since he was abandoned by his wife and son 15 years ago. His life is disrupted when his son shows up now as Priscila, a transgender prostitute from the streets of Sa...

    The Fisherman's Daughter
  • 2018
    The Trial

    The Trial (2018)

    The Trial

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    The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff...

    The Trial
  • 2009
    Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was

    Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was (2009)

    Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was

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    In a time of timeless and revolutionary talents, Wilson Simonal shined as nobody before and innovated as only a few could. All of a sudden, everything vanished. This film maps the spectacular trajectory of the ex-Army corporal that ruled as a monarc...

    Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
  • 2023
    Aunt Virginia

    Aunt Virginia (2023)

    Aunt Virginia

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    Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents. Taking place in just one day, the film...

    Aunt Virginia
  • 2021
    The Fever

    The Fever (2021)

    The Fever

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    Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Brasília, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever....

    The Fever
  • 2012
    Feijoada Completa

    Feijoada Completa (2012)

    Feijoada Completa

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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...

    Feijoada Completa
  • 2014
    O Senhor do Labirinto

    O Senhor do Labirinto (2014)

    O Senhor do Labirinto

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    O Senhor do Labirinto
  • 2020
    Mulher Oceano

    Mulher Oceano (2020)

    Mulher Oceano

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    After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea....

    Mulher Oceano
  • 2021
    Depois da Primavera

    Depois da Primavera (2021)

    Depois da Primavera

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    Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History repeats itself: before they had to leave Aleppo to protest for freedom. Back he inherited his mother, ...

    Depois da Primavera
  • 2013
    Contos da Maré

    Contos da Maré (2013)

    Contos da Maré

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    Contos da Maré
  • 2005
    Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou

    Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou (2005)

    Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou

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    In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her....

    Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou
  • 2019
    Nona. If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them

    Nona. If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them (2019)

    Nona. If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them

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    Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails. Her body suffe...

    Nona. If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them
  • 2018
    The Dead Queen

    The Dead Queen (2018)

    The Dead Queen

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    Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of...

    The Dead Queen
  • 2024
    Drenched in Blood

    Drenched in Blood (2024)

    Drenched in Blood

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    A young man’s father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his own father’s end. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers at a Sunday dance in Garopaba, a sleepy town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fis...

    Drenched in Blood
  • 2018
    The Father's Shadow

    The Father's Shadow (2018)

    The Father's Shadow

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    When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction....

    The Father's Shadow
  • 2007
    Margin

    Margin (2007)

    Margin

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    Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips....

    Margin
  • 2013
    Parque Soviético

    Parque Soviético (2013)

    Parque Soviético

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    Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship on a Berlin Park...

    Parque Soviético