The Boys from Brazil

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Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck) gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project- he wants to clone Hitler. Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Olivier), but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed. Mengele continues his murderous plot, creating 94 young Hitlers and killing their fathers to simulate the madman's own boyhood. As Mengele moves closer to producing global terror, Lieberman alone must discover the terrifying extent of his plan and stop it.

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Black God White Devil

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Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel (Geraldo del Rey) flees with his wife Rosa (Yona Magalhaes) to the sertao, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures. Sebastiao (Lidio Silva), a fanatic preacher who promises utopia but practices massacre and a band of bandits called Cangaceiros led by Corisco (Othon Bastos). Shuttled between the 'Black God' and 'White Devil', Manuel and Rosa's struggle for survival escalates when Church authorities hire a hitman named Antonio das Mortes (Mauricio do Valle) to hunt down every combatant in the region.

'An idea in the head and a camera in the hand' was Glauber Rocha's motto, and every shot in this film displays innovation of thought and control over form. In addition to writing and directing the film, Rocha wrote the folk songs scored by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Sergio Ricardo. Black God, White Devil became the banner film of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement. Its artistic achievement, acknowledged by Luis Buñuel and Bernardo Bertolucci, has made it a seminal classic of film history.

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Disappearing World: Kayapo [VHS]

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Brazilian Culture in World War II Propaganda Movie: Brazil at War DVD (1943)

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Brazil at War is an interesting World War II video about Brazil joining the Allies in the fight for freedom. Brazil literally gave a division of men to the U.S. command to be trained and managed in combat. It was a successful relationship, by and large, and this film elaborates on how Brazil is a great country, second only to the U.S. in natural resources and manpower. The "cosmopolitan" Rio de Janeiro is praised as being a modern city like those in the America. The selectively progressive nature of this United State war propaganda film contrasts sharply with racist videos on America's WWII enemies. Of great historical value, Brazil at War is a fascinating glance at mid 20th century Brazil and America's stance towards them at the time.

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Black God, White Devil ( Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol ) ( God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Widely considered to be the greatest Brazilian film of all time, Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) influenced such major filmmakers as Martin Scorsese and Sergio Leone and is Glauber Rocha s finest and most moving work. This masterpiece of cinema makes its in its UK theatrical debut, courtesy of Mr Bongo Films An epic and moving work, Black God, White Devil blends mysticism, religion, and popular culture, into a powerful, bleak and cruel epic, that unashamedly expresses its frustration with many of the major institutions of Brazilian life government, Church and corrupt landowners. Set in the 1940s, the picture follows Manuel, who kills his employer after he tries to cheat him of his wages. From then on Manuel and his wife, Rosa, move around the country, robbing and killing as they go, listening to the words of religious mystics and self-proclaimed saints as try to find their place in a ruthless land of corruption, anguish and violence. What makes this film all the more remarkable is the fact that director Glauber Rocha was only 25 years old when he wrote and began filming this masterwork, a film which cries out for man to determine his own path. The picture was nominated for the 1964 Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival and is considered to be a seminal piece of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival,

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Classic Brazil Films DVD: 1940s

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The people and culture of Brazil are brought back to the screen with this rare collection of historical films about Brazil. Many of the films are propaganda pieces that promote the people of Brazil because of Brazil's contribution to the Allies during WWII. Table Of Contents: (1) Brazil Gets The News (1942) - Amazing footage of Brazilian Newspaper Agaseta, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Promotes the Brazilian press as free and modern during the times of WWII - 10 Minutes (2) Brazil At War (1942) - Great film about the Brazil's contribution to the Allies during WWII. Explores the similarities between Brazil and America and documents the history of Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Europe - 10 Minutes (3) Good Neighbor Family (1943) - Bizarre film that tries to explain how Americans and Latin Americans are similar especially when it comes to family life - 17 Minutes (4) Rio Honors General Ike (Newsreel footage) (1946) - Future President Eisenhower inspects the Brazilian Army - 30 Seconds (5) Brazil: South American Medley (1948) - Travelogue of Brazil with lots of footage of the people, culture, and customs of Brazil - 11 Minutes (6) Belle Horizons (1949) - A wonderful documentary on the planning and development of Belo Horizonte in Brazil - 17 Minutes (7) Brazil Wartime (Newsreel footage) (1952) - The President of Brazil gets re-elected in 1952 - 1 Minute

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Waste Land

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Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Walker (Devil s Playground, Blindsight, Countdown to Zero) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

Bonus Features: Extended Bonus Footage: Beyond Gramacho ; An Untold Story

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The Emerald Forest

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From the director of Hope & Glory comes a "wildly ambitious parable [that] transports us to a singularly imaginative realm" (Boxoffice). The Emerald Forest is "an exotic and erotic daymare replete with one lushly enrapturing scene after another" (Daily News)! For ten years, engineer Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son (Charley Boorman) is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

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Romeo and Juliet Get Married

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Shakespeare’s tragic love story is given a sweetly romantic, raucously fresh and inventive retelling by Bruno Barreto with the lovers’ families being passionate fans of opposing soccer teams. Ophthalmologist Romeo is a passionately obsessed fan of the Corinthians football team - and the same goes for his 21-year-old son and his feisty grandmother. While across town, the lovely Juliet lives with her Italian-Brazilian family, and whose father is an equally rabid fan –- and president of the fan club –- of Palmeiras, the Corinthians’ century-old arch rivals. Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love. Romeo, desperate to get in good graces with his future father-in-law, decides to hide his affections for his team and fake a love for Palmeiras: he even dresses in the colors of his hated team. This ruse, soon found out by Juliet (the only person who doesn’t care), takes its toll on Romeo as he needs to venture to the other side of the stadium and root for his dreaded nemesis. The deceptions come to a head as the truth is revealed, tempers flair, and revenge is sought in a series of frantic and hilarious twists.

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Last Stop 174 ( Última Parada 174 ) ( Linia 174 )

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Argentina released, NTSC/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: The story expands on a real-life event, the hijacking of a bus in Rio de Janeiro in 2000, that inspired Jose Padilha's documentary Bus 174 (2002). It supposedly tells the story of the hostage-taker, Sandro do Nascimento, a 21 year old homeless man who terrorized 11 passengers for 4½ hours and was killed by asphyxiation in a police car on the way to the hospital. Last Stop 174 focuses on how he was doomed to become a criminal. After seeing his mother being murdered when he was six years old, Sandro became a street kid and later started to steal to sustain his drug addition. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Toronto International Film Festival,

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