Carandiru (2003)

Summary: Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience and the tragic stories of hideous crimes w...

Release Date: April 11, 2003

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Hector Babenco

Writers: Hector Babenco

, Fernando Bonassi

, Victor Navas

Runtime: 2 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: BR Petrobrás, Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil, Globo Filmes, HB Filmes, Lereby Productions, Oscar Kramer S.A.

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Brazil, Argentina, Italy

Language: Portuguese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 216,335

International: $ 10,565,300

7.5 - ZR Rating
3494 votes

Casa de Areia (2005)

Summary: A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

Release Date: May 13, 2005

Genre: Drama

Director: Andrucha Waddington

Writers: Elena Soarez

, Luiz Carlos Barreto

, Andrucha Waddington

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil, Conspiração Filmes, Globo Filmes, Teleimage

Country: Brazil

Language: Portuguese

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 539,285

International: $ 638,890

6.6 - ZR Rating
3066 votes

Me You Them (2000)

Summary: A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.

Release Date: August 18, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Andrucha Waddington