Movies: Glauber Rocha

  • 1964
    Black God, White Devil

    Black God, White Devil (1964)

    Black God, White Devil

    7.11964HD

    Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, 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....

    Black God, White Devil
  • 1965
    Simon of the Desert

    Simon of the Desert (1965)

    Simon of the Desert

    7.61965HD

    Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him....

    Simon of the Desert
  • 1967
    Entranced Earth

    Entranced Earth (1967)

    Entranced Earth

    7.31967HD

    Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a ...

    Entranced Earth
  • 1969
    Antonio das Mortes

    Antonio das Mortes (1969)

    Antonio das Mortes

    6.81969HD

    A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the...

    Antonio das Mortes
  • 1970
    Wind from the East

    Wind from the East (1970)

    Wind from the East

    6.81970HD

    A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema....

    Wind from the East
  • 2016
    Cinema Novo

    Cinema Novo (2016)

    Cinema Novo

    6.72016HD

    A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitud...

    Cinema Novo
  • 1977
    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber

    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber (1977)

    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber

    6.11977HD

    This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti....

    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
  • 1980
    The Age of the Earth

    The Age of the Earth (1980)

    The Age of the Earth

    6.11980HD

    Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's imag...

    The Age of the Earth
  • 1962
    The Turning Wind

    The Turning Wind (1962)

    The Turning Wind

    6.91962HD

    In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression, with tragic outcome....

    The Turning Wind
  • 1969
    Brazil Year 2000

    Brazil Year 2000 (1969)

    Brazil Year 2000

    6.11969HD

    Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilem...

    Brazil Year 2000
  • 2020
    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    52020HD

    In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
  • 1967
    The Girl from Ipanema

    The Girl from Ipanema (1967)

    The Girl from Ipanema

    6.21967HD

    Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's ext...

    The Girl from Ipanema
  • 1975
    As Armas e o Povo

    As Armas e o Povo (1975)

    As Armas e o Povo

    7.41975HD

    Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known....

    As Armas e o Povo
  • 1970
    Cutting Heads

    Cutting Heads (1970)

    Cutting Heads

    4.31970HD

    In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fas...

    Cutting Heads
  • 2012
    Tropicália

    Tropicália (2012)

    Tropicália

    7.12012HD

    Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary t...

    Tropicália
  • 1987
    No Tempo de Glauber

    No Tempo de Glauber (1987)

    No Tempo de Glauber

    01987HD

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    No Tempo de Glauber
  • 2006
    Depois do Transe

    Depois do Transe (2006)

    Depois do Transe

    22006HD

    The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmak...

    Depois do Transe
  • 1971
    The Lion Has Seven Heads

    The Lion Has Seven Heads (1971)

    The Lion Has Seven Heads

    61971HD

    A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary grou...

    The Lion Has Seven Heads
  • 2015
    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro

    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro (2015)

    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro

    82015HD

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    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
  • 2005
    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2005)

    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth

    7.22005HD

    Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for de...

    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth