City of God (
2002) | IMDb:
8.6
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Woman on Top (
2000) | IMDb:
5.3
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.
Starring:
Penélope Cruz
,
Murilo Benício
,
Mark Feuerstein
,
John de Lancie
,
Anne Ramsay
,
Ana Gasteyer
Directed by:
Fina Torres
Central Station (
1998) | IMDb:
8
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Starring:
Fernanda Montenegro
,
Vinícius de Oliveira
,
Marília Pêra
,
Othon Bastos
,
Otávio Augusto
,
Matheus Nachtergaele