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

    6.91969HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1962
    Tocaia no Asfalto

    Tocaia no Asfalto (1962)

    Tocaia no Asfalto

    6.01962HD

    A gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite being a hired killer, the man takes his job seriously and prefers to go to the end....

    Tocaia no Asfalto
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1977
    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber

    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber (1977)

    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber

    6.01977HD

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

    Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
  • 2007
    Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

    Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha (2007)

    Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

    52007HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage....

    Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
  • 1975
    As Armas e o Povo

    As Armas e o Povo (1975)

    As Armas e o Povo

    7.31975HD

    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
  • 2008
    Days in Sintra

    Days in Sintra (2008)

    Days in Sintra

    02008HD

    Using home movies and other media, a filmmaker returns to Sintra, Portugal to search for memories of her late husband, Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha....

    Days in Sintra
  • 1980
    The Age of the Earth

    The Age of the Earth (1980)

    The Age of the Earth

    6.21980HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2008
    Milagrez

    Milagrez (2008)

    Milagrez

    02008HD

    Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film....

    Milagrez
  • 1987
    No Tempo de Glauber

    No Tempo de Glauber (1987)

    No Tempo de Glauber

    01987HD

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    No Tempo de Glauber
  • 1979
    ORG

    ORG (1979)

    ORG

    5.31979HD

    Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu ...

    ORG
  • 1966
    The Big City

    The Big City (1966)

    The Big City

    5.71966HD

    In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, l...

    The Big City