Movies: Mariana Ximenes

Hermano is a doctor who plans to climb a dangerous mountain. He feels guilty about the death of his best friend and needs a test of courage. But Hermano's wife reveals that she is pregnant and he needs to make a decision....

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here seems threatening and almost enchanting....

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations....

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Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the...

The quartet of coup plotters is back, but before they need to resolve some minor internal disagreements, since Marco has struck a blow at his best friend, Beto, who, desolate, stops at a psychiatric clinic. It is up to Laura and Nelson to help him ou...

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life....

In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her....

Afrânio is a retired voice actor. Lonely and tormented by memories of his childhood. In her small apartment, looking for a way to re-integrate into society....

Antônio wants to give his girlfriend, the prostitute Ioiô, a star. He meets a salesman who claims he can get one for him, with certificate included! After many negotiations, Antônio finds out he has been taken in....

“If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?” Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depictio...

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way tha...

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In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of Lota's, became governor of Guanabara and invited her to create a park where a 7-kilometer landfill had been...

In a movie theater, a man wakes up and looks at the screen. "What's that?", he asks his girlfriend. "A movie", she replies. Is it?...

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A short film based on Charles Baudelaire's poem "Le serpent qui danse" ("The Dancing Snake"), from his book Les Fleurs du mal....