Karen Akerman Movies

A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.

Genre: Documentary

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Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Valdemar Santos

On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manoel Dias

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the...

Genre: Documentary

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In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valdemar Santos

Birth, life and death of a carnival sculpture. Linked to the mythology of the Orixás, a metaphor of creation based on the Babalotim doll, a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nei Lopes

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lúcia Pereira

Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carla Moscatelli

In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carla Jiménez

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joana Craveiro

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vera Holtz

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gustavo Jahn

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

Genre: Documentary

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Cast: Flávio Bauraqui

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leandra Leal

A portrait of the city of São Paulo through the life of four of its inhabitants: an economist and analyst of the financial market, a...

Genre: Documentary

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The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam’s wife. However, Lilith does not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renato Góes

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Amandyra

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

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Cast: André Dahmer

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thaís Tedesco

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen Akerman

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen Akerman

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen Akerman

The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dilma Rousseff

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josefina Ramírez

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gabriel Leone

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariclenes Barroso

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

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Cast: Adriana Aboim

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joana de Verona

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tamlyn Tomita

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,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wilson Simonal

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Medeiros

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regis Myrupu

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joana Craveiro

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joana Craveiro

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

Genre: Documentary

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The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

Genre: Documentary

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Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on...

Genre: Documentary

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French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

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Cast: Ruy Guerra

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Santos

Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it,...

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French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

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Cast: Ruy Guerra

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

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Cast: Ruy Guerra

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

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Cast: Ruy Guerra

Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it,...

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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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Djin Sganzerla

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daniel Quiroga

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...

Genre: Documentary

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When humans become animals and animals become humans.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Modesto Lacen