Barcode: 58925576
Call Number: L-RP50
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 100 min.
Publication Date: 1952, [199-?]
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Humberto Mauro
Description: A woman runs off with her secret lover while her father is involved in his mayoral campaign and the accordionist who loves her goes to find her.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58925577
Call Number: L-RP51
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 53 min.
Publication Date: 1930, [199-?]
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Humberto Mauro
Description: With the urban sophisticated setting of Rio de Janeiro as a backdrop, Lábios sem Beijos is a delightful romantic comedy, dealing with the relationship between a wealthy, vivacious society girl and a young man with the reputation of a Don Juan. The humorous complications that follow are finally happily resolved.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58925578
Call Number: L-RP52
Material Type: Video -VHS
Publication Date: 1927, [199-?]
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Humberto Mauro
Description: The film was first shown in Cataguases in August 1927 and, upon its presentation in Rio de Janeiro, won an award as the best Brazilian film of the year. With a cast that included Mauro’s wife billed as Lola Lys in her only screen appearance, Thesouro Perdido revealed the remarkable cinematic skills of the self-taught filmmaker. Inspired by American productions, the film is a melodramatic adventure story involving bandits in search of a treasure map. The scenes in which they kidnap the heroine ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58963713
Call Number: FR-POR Men
Material Type: Print
Publication Date: 2017
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Alessandro Mendonça
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58965873
Call Number: V-POR 101
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 129 min
Publication Date: 2005
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Breno Silveira
Description: "The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen." -- IMDb
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58963712
Call Number: FR-POR Aze
Material Type: Print
Publication Date: 2012
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Milton Mariano Azevedo
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 45300023
Call Number: L-RP13
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 17 min.
Publication Date: c1993
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Francisco Casar Filino
Description: The years between 1955 and 1960 were marked by a development strategy based on planning and rationality, whose symbols were President Juscelino Kubitschek, known as J.K., and the construction of Brasilia. In the same spirit, concrete art arises. (Instituto Cultural Ita)
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: 1
Barcode: 58996093
Call Number: FR-POR Gla
Material Type: Print
Publication Date: 2019
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Karina Yan Glaser; translated by Din aAntunes and Cláudia Cruz
Description: A lost and touching story about family and the tricks life plays on us.
Rating Audience (Video Only): 9+
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58963274
Call Number: FR- POR Lis
Material Type: Print
Publication Date: 1999
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Clarice Lispector
Description: "This brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabea is inwardly free, she doesn't seem to know how ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58954363
Call Number: V-POR 059
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 96 min.
Publication Date: 2005
System Requirements: Region 1
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Suzana Amaral
Description: "Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, "I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola." Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman." -- IMDb
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957262
Call Number: V-POR 059.02
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 96 min.
Publication Date: 2005
System Requirements: Region 1
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Suzana Amaral
Description: "Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, "I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola." Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman." -- IMDb
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58965514
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 88 min
Publication Date: 2020
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke
Description: "A Machine to Live In is a feature-length documentary about the imaginative and material processes of building one’s utopia. The film documents the history of highly controlled modernist planning in Brazil alongside radical projects in cult and mystical architecture. The film’s attention radiates outward from Niemeyer and Costa’s capital, Brasília, to the flourishing landscape of UFO cults, pyramids, monuments, and futurist projects."- Production company's web site
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58965856
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 92 min.
Publication Date: 2007
Language: Portuguese
Creator: dir. by Joel Zito Araújo
Barcode: 58959036
Call Number: FR-POR Bar
Material Type: Print
Publication Date: 1999
Language: Portuguese
Creator: written by Alvaro Barreiro
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58918048
Call Number: L-RP42
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 35 min.
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Eunice Gutman
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58995538
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 96 min.
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Pocas Pascoal
Description: "Lisbon, summer 1980. Two sisters of sixteen and seventeen years old arrive from Angola to escape the war. Delivered to themselves, Alda and Maria will have to learn to survive without money, in a grey and polluted suburb of this foreign city. With the complicity of other Angolans, the two teenage girls are organizing a precarious existence. This exile will teach them to choose their destiny by becoming strong and dignified women..."
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Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58922960
Call Number: L-RP47
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 28 min.
Publication Date: c1993
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Eunice Gutman
Description: A documentary about prostitution in Brazil. Includes portraits of sex workers and discussion of personal issues and working conditions.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 45300020
Call Number: L-RP10
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 17 min.
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Decio Pignatari
Description: The crash of the New York stock market in 1929 was a historical fact of great consequences in the following decade. In brazil, amid conflicts and revolutions, art became popular and nationalistic. This film shows the artists reactions to these events. (Instituto Cultural Ita )
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58961000
Call Number: DV-POR 047
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 80 min.
Language: Portuguese
Description: For a young girl who wants to study medicine in Mozambique, the obstacles extend far beyond the distractions of her boyfriend and her family. A moment of weakness or an error in judgment can cost her a place at the university, an irretrievable loss in a country with so few opportunities for women. Sol de Carvalho dedicates this film to the courage of young women who continue to strive against the odds, proving that educating a girl is not a waste of time in a land where it is perceived that ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58954227
Call Number: V-POR 055
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 88 min.
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Tata Amaral
Description: From the producers of City of God and acclaimed writer/director/producer Tata Amaral comes Antônia, a moving, soulful look into the lives of four women living on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil. Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, the talented young women form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succumb to their grim realities, putting the group's future--and their lifelong friendships--in ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58954228
Call Number: V-POR 056
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 90 min.
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Maria de Medeiros
Description: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58962394
Call Number: DV-POR 088
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 146 min.
Publication Date: 2016
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Description: Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, vows to live in her apartment until she dies after a developer buys all of the units around her.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58962451
Call Number: V-POR 088
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 146 min.
Publication Date: 2016
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Description: Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, vows to live in her apartment until she dies after a developer buys all of the units around her.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58962530
Call Number: V-POR 088.02
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 146 min.
Publication Date: 2016
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Description: Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, vows to live in her apartment until she dies after a developer buys all of the units around her.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58951610
Call Number: V-POR 012
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 109 min.
Publication Date: 2004
Language: Portuguese
Creator: Directed by Ronaldo Duque
Description: Film about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.
Collection: Language Resource Center