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• Central Station | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the opening scenes of Central Station, colourful crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion, setting the tone for a picturesque road movie that charts Brazil's renaissance in a little boy's search for his father and an old woman's emotional reawakening. When we first meet Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), this frozen-hearted, sour-faced woman is the epitome of immobility: day after day, she sits in the train station selling her letter-writing skills to all comers, but often doesn't bother to mail these precious messages. When a woman who's paid Dora to write a pleading note to her son's long-missing dad gets run over by a bus, the child, Josue (Vinicius de Oliveira), is up for grabs. (The summary execution of a thieving street kid--seen in longshot--underscores the seriousness of this waif's plight.) After an abortive attempt to sell Josue for a new TV, the aspiring couch potato finds herself reluctantly propelled into an occasionally Fellini-esque odyssey through the hinterlands of Brazil's sertäo, where Dora and her sidekick find unexpected faith and family. Former documentary filmmaker Walter Salles (Foreign Land) mixes magic with realism in his appreciation of striking faces and places, but Central Station is primarily fuelled by the tough/tender performances of Montenegro, Brazil's Judi Dench, and de Oliveira, an airport shoeshine boy Salles cast over 1,500 other hopefuls. (Montenegro was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and Central Station was in the running for Best Foreign Language Film.) No cloyingly cute child-star, de Oliveira plays Josue as a bracingly idiosyncratic brat. And watching Dora's face and soul slowly, unwillingly unclench as she gets back in motion--and emotion--is potent pleasure, even if Salles' trip does dead-end in soap opera as his Brazilian pilgrim's progress winds down. --Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com

• Black God, White Devil | Blu Ray | (18/12/2023) from £13.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most acclaimed and influential Brazilian films ever made, Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) tells the story of Manoel, a young cowherd who murders a wealthy ranch owner and flees to the drought-ridden hinterlands of northern Brazil with his wife Rosa. Now outlawed, they join a religious cult headed by the mystic self-proclaimed saint Sabastiao, who condones acts of violence. The couple are plunged into a moral dilemma between embracing religious fanaticism and a life of brutality amongst rural peasant bandits. Meanwhile, the authorities hire a gunman known as Antonio Das Mortes to track them down. Product Features Coming Soon

• Antonio Das Mortes | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £10.65   |  Saving you £2.34 (21.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. The movie is the sequel to God & The Devil In The Land Of The Sun and takes place 29 years after Antonio Das Mortes killed Corisco (The Blonde Devil) last of the Cangaceiros. In 'the old days' Antonio's function in life was to exterminate these bandits on account of his personal grudges against them. His life had been meaningless for the last 29 years but now a new challenge awaits him. When a Cangaceiro appears in Jardim Das Piranhas the local land Baron (Jofre Soares) an old man does what seems obvious to him; he calls on Antonio Das Mortes killer of Cangaceiros. At first Antonio is ecstatic. His life has regained some meaning. But soon it becomes obvious that this new Cangaceiro (named Coirana) is no Corisco but an idealist. An idealist of the sixties in the garb of the forties. A leader to the hopeless and the hungry. Antonio Das Mortes begins to reconsider his feelings towards Coirana and his followers.

• Black God White Devil | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £10.69   |  Saving you £7.30 (68.29%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Widely considered to be the greatest Brazilian film of all time Black God White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) influenced such major filmmakers as Martin Scorsese and Sergio Leone and is Glauber Rocha's finest and most moving work. An epic and moving work Black God White Devil

• Two Deaths Of Quincas Wateryell | Blu Ray | (01/08/2011) from £8.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (63.10%)   |  RRP £22.99

  One morning Quincas Wateryell doesn't wake up after yet another night of partying in the sleazy bars and brothels of Brazil's Bahia. When the news of his death reaches his four best drinking buddies they decide to give Quincas the send off he deserves by taking his body on one last phenomenal tour of his favourite spots... With family members and the police hot on their tails chaos and unforeseen consequences ensue in this riotous black comedy from producer Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries).

• Black God White Devil by Glauber Rocha | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Widely considered to be the greatest Brazilian film of all time Black God White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) influenced such major filmmakers as Martin Scorsese and Sergio Leone and is Glauber Rocha's finest and most moving work. An epic and moving work Black God White Devil

• Two Deaths Of Quincas Wateryell | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £2.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (501.67%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One morning, Quincas Wateryell doesn’t wake up after yet another night of partying in the sleazy bars and brothels of Brazil’s Bahia. When the news of his death reaches his four best drinking buddies they decide to give Quincas the send off he deserves by taking his body on one last phenomenal tour of his favourite spots... With family members and the police hot on their tails, chaos and unforeseen consequences ensue in this riotous black comedy from producer Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries). Special Features The Making of The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell Trailer