Um Apólogo
An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.
An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.
Grace Moema
Júlia Dias
Déa Selva
Nelma Costa
Darcy Cazarré
Lúcia Miguel Pereira
Edgard Roquette-Pinto
An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.
A bright but acid-tongued young actress walks the viewer through the drudgeries of her privileged life in a series of clinical tableaux.
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
A slice of life story that follows a large Italian family on Christmas Eve as they prepare for the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes, reminisce about the past and seek love in the future.
Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her on a whirlwind and surprising journey of self-discovery, friendship, and new love.