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1. Firebrand (2023)
120 min | Drama, History
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Eddie Marsan, Jude Law, Sam Riley
Votes: 569
2. Motel Destino (2024)
115 min | Thriller
Under the burning sky on a roadside on the coast of Ceará, Motel Destino is the scene of dangerous games of desire, power and violence. One night, the arrival of young Heraldo definitively transforms the daily life of the place.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Fábio Assunção, Nataly Rocha, Iago Xavier
Votes: 80
3. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.
Director: Boots Riley | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick
Votes: 88,548 | Gross: $17.49M
4. Dead Presidents (1995)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.
Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodríguez
Votes: 24,601 | Gross: $24.20M
5. Rosebushpruning
Drama, Thriller | Pre-production
A family struggling with genetic illnesses lives on a country estate. Personal drama develops amongst them in this intimate portrait.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Josh O'Connor, Kristen Stewart, Elle Fanning
6. Invisible Life (2019)
R | 139 min | Drama
In 1950s Rio de Janeiro, two sisters live restricted lives with their conservative parents. After they are separated and forced to live apart, they take control of their destinies, while never giving up hope of finding one another.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca
Votes: 9,713
7. Safe (1995)
R | 119 min | Drama
An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Julie Burgess
Votes: 17,312 | Gross: $0.51M
8. Lower City (2005)
R | 98 min | Drama
Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.
Director: Sergio Machado | Stars: Alice Braga, Wagner Moura, Lázaro Ramos, Maria Menezes
Votes: 4,405 | Gross: $0.13M
9. Night Moves (2013)
R | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 16,732 | Gross: $0.25M
10. The Other End (2016)
92 min | Drama
After a 43-year-old divorcee begins a relationship with a 17-year-old boy, they must face his parents' disagreement and fight for their relationship.
Director: Felipe Sholl | Stars: Karine Teles, Tom Karabachian, Denise Fraga, Emílio de Mello
Votes: 620
11. Futuro Beach (2014)
Unrated | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Shortly after failing to rescue a drowning man, Donato meets Konrad, a friend of the victim. They soon begin a relationship which seems doomed from the start, while Donato's past catches up with him.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Fred Lima, Thomas Aquino
Votes: 3,336 | Gross: $0.02M
12. Poison (1991)
R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman, Millie White
Votes: 5,053 | Gross: $0.61M
13. Madame Satã (2002)
Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques
Votes: 3,163 | Gross: $0.20M
14. Mariner of the Mountains (2021)
95 min | Documentary, Romance
A travel diary filmed on director Karim Aïnouz's first trip to Algeria, the country where his father was born, mixing travel records, home footage, family photographs, historical archives and super-8 footage.
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Votes: 608
15. Love for Sale (2006)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
In order to get funds, a young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Hermila Guedes, Maria Menezes, Zezita Matos, João Miguel
Votes: 2,121 | Gross: $0.01M
16. Swoon (1992)
Unrated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.
Director: Tom Kalin | Stars: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby
Votes: 1,924 | Gross: $0.34M
17. Rio Sex Comedy (2010)
Unrated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
Director: Jonathan Nossiter | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bill Pullman, Irène Jacob, Jérôme Kircher
Votes: 803
18. Behind the Sun (2001)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Votes: 7,417 | Gross: $0.06M
19. Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
R | 108 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-'n'-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Dina Korzun, Rip Torn, Andrew Lawrence Henderson, Elizabeth Morton
Votes: 1,556
20. 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
63 min | Comedy, Drama
An omnibus film celebrating the 30th anniversary of iconic independent distributor Strand Releasing.
Directors: Andrew Ahn, Fatih Akin, Gregg Araki, Karim Aïnouz, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Roddy Bogawa, Brady Corbet, Amy Davis, Anna Franquesa-Solano, Bradley Rust Gray, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Connor Jessup, Jon Jost, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, So Yong Kim, Bruce La Bruce, Jon Moritsugu, Tommy O'Haver, Jenni Olson, Daniel Ribeiro, João Pedro Rodrigues, Ira Sachs, James Schamus, Abu Bakr Shawky, Cindy Sherman, Elisabeth Subrin, Rose Troche, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Lulu Wang, John Waters, Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Arthur Alfaia, Jackie Boyce, Catherine Breillat, Amy Davis
Votes: 79
21. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
Directors: Hala Abdallah, John Akomfrah, Wang Bing, Catherine Breillat, Júlio Bressane, Rama Burshtein, Antonio Capuano, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Isabel Coixet, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Amit Dutta, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Frédéric Fonteyne, James Franco, Lluís Galter, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German Jr., Amos Gitai, Benoît Jacquot, Zhangke Jia, Kim Ki-duk, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Larraín, Tobias Lindholm, Guido Lombardi, Jazmín López, Samuel Maoz, Pietro Marcello, Brillante Mendoza, Celina Murga, Amir Naderi, Shirin Neshat, Nicolás Pereda, Franco Piavoli, Giuseppe Piccioni, João Pedro Rodrigues, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Ulrich Seidl, Luca Severi, Jean-Marie Straub, Tusi Tamasese, Tariq Teguia, Pablo Trapero, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Teresa Villaverde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrew Wonder, Yonfan, Krzysztof Zanussi, Karim Aïnouz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jan Cvitkovic, Atom Egoyan, Davide Ferrario, Monte Hellman, Semih Kaplanoglu, Marlen Khutsiev, Yorgos Lanthimos, Milcho Manchevski, Franco Maresco, Salvatore Mereu, Ermanno Olmi, Michele Placido, Edgar Reitz, Hong Sang-soo, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Kounosuke Tsukamoto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shekhar Kapur, Heeraz Marfatia | Stars: Jessica Alexander, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lola Créton, Haile Gerima
Votes: 398
22. Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque te Amo (2009)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama
A geologist is sent to an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil to survey water sources, but begins to feel a a sense of abandonment and loneliness.
Directors: Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes | Star: Irandhir Santos
Votes: 1,183
23. Dottie Gets Spanked (1993 TV Short)
30 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An artistic six-year-old boy in 1960s America is obsessed with The Dottie Show. His father is concerned about the show's sexual influence, especially the boy's fascination with a spanking scene.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: J. Evan Bonifant, Barbara Garrick, Julie Halston, Robert Pall
Votes: 969
24. Alice (2008)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
Alice is a 26-year old woman, who moves to São Paulo after her father's unexpected death. In this intense and eclectic city, she starts to live life to the fullest, discover pleasures, chalk up successes and fearlessly face her failures.
Stars: Andréia Horta, Gabrielle Lopes, Vinicius Faria Zinn, Juliano Cazarré
Votes: 182
25. Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
165 min | Documentary
Six directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.
Directors: Karim Aïnouz, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Margreth Olin, Robert Redford, Wim Wenders | Stars: Meret Becker, Gennadi Vengerov, Benedicte C. Westin, Jonas Salk
Votes: 296
26. Neon River
Action | Pre-production
It narrates in a near-future Tokyo the wild love affair between Dirka, a Japanese-Brazilian girl who works as a nightclub hostess to pay for her ailing Japanese father's debts, and Vadim, a... See full summary »
Director: Karim Aïnouz
27. The Silver Cliff (2011)
83 min | Drama
In "The Silver Cliff" Violeta (Alessandra Negrini) is a married dentist in a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her ... See full summary »
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Camila Amado, Luisa Arraes, Milton Gonçalves, Sergio Guizé
Votes: 413
28. Mondovino (2004)
PG-13 | 135 min | Documentary
A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions.
Director: Jonathan Nossiter | Stars: Albiera Antinori, Allegra Antinori, Lodovico Antinori, Piero Antinori
Votes: 1,508 | Gross: $0.21M
29. Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)
99 min | Adventure, Drama
A road movie about a German man who went to the Northeast of Brazil in 1942 to sell Aspirin.
Director: Marcelo Gomes | Stars: João Miguel, Peter Ketnath, Madalena Accioly, Jeane Alves
Votes: 3,062
30. Central Airport THF (2018)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was opened in 1923 and, under Adolf Hitler, extended to become the world's largest airport which was finally closed in 2008. But even today Tempelhof Airport ... See full summary »
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Ibrahim Al Hussein, Qutaiba Nafer, Maria Alahmad, Christine Kiessig-Kämper
Votes: 296
31. Nardjes A. (2020)
80 min | Documentary
Algeria, February 2019. A wave of protests takes over the streets of Algiers against the 5th candidacy of then president Bouteflika. Nardjes, a young activist, finds in the movement a space to demand a better future for her country.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Star: Nardjes Asli
Votes: 45
32. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 335
33. Beau geste (2023– )
Talk-Show
Stars: Pierre Lescure, Pauline Baduel, Sébastien Davis, Ludivine Sagnier
Votes: 7
34. Ode (1999)
48 min | Drama, Romance
"Tallahatchie Bridge": With those two simple words, the powerful images of a lost innocence, a murky river and a mysterious suicide spring to mind. Scorning the demands of her overbearing ... See full summary »
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Heather Gottlieb, Kevin Poole, Jon Wurster, Jim Wiley
Votes: 241
35. Short Plays (2014)
105 min | Documentary, Sport
Football seen through the eyes of directors from several parts of the world.
Directors: Pedro Amorim, Karim Aïnouz, Abner Benaim, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Sebastián Cordero, Matias Cruz, Rune Denstad Langlo, Doris Dörrie, Fernando Eimbcke, Pablo Fendrik, Vincent Gallo, Daniel Gruener, Marcelo Gómez, Mascha Halberstad, Duane Hopkins, Yang Ik-joon, Bobo Jelcic, Buthina Canaan Khoury, Victor Kossakovsky, Luca Lucini, Carlos Moreno, Koen Mortier, Emnet Mulugeta, Gaspar Noé, Carlos Reygadas, Jaime Rosales, Pablo Stoll, Kiki Sugino, Juan Carlos Valdivia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Star: Sami Samir
Votes: 101
36. Diego Velázquez ou le réalisme sauvage (2015 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Star: Arthur H.
Votes: 18
37. Missão Perséfone (2020)
10 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Carol Duarte, Eva Schulthess
Votes: 10
38. Kulturzeit (1995– )
40 min | News
Culture time on 3sat.
Stars: Cécile Schortmann, Vivian Perkovic, Nina Brunner, Peter Schneeberger
Votes: 52
39. Alice: A Special in Two Parts (2010)
TV-MA | 80 min | Drama
Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice begins to question her newfound stability and her future.
Stars: Andréia Horta, Vinicius Faria Zinn, Carla Ribas, Sílvia Lourenço
Votes: 24
40. Crítico (2008)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
70 critics and filmmakers discuss cinema from the age old conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. From 1998 to 2007, Kleber Mendonça Filho has collected ... See full summary »
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Cláudio Assis, Sophie Avon, Karim Aïnouz, Hector Babenco
Votes: 216
41. Rifa-Me (2000)
27 min | Short
A young woman who dreams of leaving her small town in order to live in São Paulo decides to raffle herself in order to get a bus ticket to move there. The raffle winner gets the chance to ... See full summary »
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Bilica Léo, Claudio Jaborandy, Ana Marlene, Graça Freitas
42. Conversa com Bial (2017– )
Talk-Show
With the experience of decades of reporting and the curious spirit of knowing other people's stories, Pedro Bial presents a wide space to listen, express and multiply opinions.
Stars: Pedro Bial, Davi Bernardo, Loco Sosa, Ana Karina Sebastião
Votes: 51
43. Waiting for the Carnival (2019)
86 min | Documentary
A small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation's capital of jeans. It's also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.
Director: Marcelo Gomes
Votes: 897
44. Um Filme de Cinema (2017)
111 min | Documentary
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the Brazilian outback is the initial setting of a film about cinema, with testimonials from filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant, Jia Zhangke, Karim Ainouz, Ken Loach and Lucrecia Martel.
Director: Walter Carvalho | Stars: Karim Aïnouz, Hector Babenco, Júlio Bressane, Salvatore Cascio
Votes: 80
45. We Still Have the Deep Black Night (2019)
98 min | Drama
Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a rock band in Brasília, but nobody cares. She tries her luck in Berlin but an incident forces her to start over in Brazil where there is still much to build.
Director: Gustavo Galvão | Stars: Ayla Gresta, Gustavo Halfeld, Steven Lange, Marat Descartes
Votes: 111
46. Ok (2007)
5 min | Short
Two twenty-something boys in a public restroom. They sniff coke, talk about sex, get dirty. But the film takes on another tone as they reveal what it is that they really want.
Director: Felipe Sholl | Stars: João Ferreira, Fernando São Thiago
Votes: 168
47. O Sol na Cabeça (2018)
Drama
With the debut of Geovani Martins, Brazilian literature finds the voice of its new realism. In the thirteen short stories of The Sun in the Head, we come across the childhood and ... See full summary »
Director: Karim Aïnouz
48. Seams (1993)
30 min | Short
A look at the attitudes toward gays and lesbians in Brazil as seen in interviews with the director's family.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Star: Fernando Linares
Votes: 64
49. Domingo (I) (2014)
13 min | Short
Directors: Karim Aïnouz, Alejandro Jovic | Stars: Cecilia Jovic Brusau, Alejandro Jovic
50. Programa do Jô (2000–2016)
Talk-Show
Late-night talk show in which the host Jô Soares interviews a vast array of Brazilian intellectuals, ranging from Luiz Pondé to Jout Jout Prazer, with a high dose of humor.
Stars: Jô Soares, Miltinho, Heloísa Périssé, Wagner Moura
Votes: 310