Daniel Filho

Mário returned to the world of the dead. He dug his escape into the earth, with no intention of taking revenge on the powerful men who pursued him. “The Fury (2024)” starts from a fantastic premise, a poetic license, to conclude the trilogy begun by "The Guns" (1964) and "The Fall" (1978) (Letterboxd).

A group of friends gets together after being apart since the trip in the first film.

Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1945. In Brazil, the Getúlio Vargas government releases political prisoners while receiving thousands of European immigrants. In this context arises the clash between the head of Customs and Immigration in Rio de Janeiro and a former Polish actor, supposed follower of Hitler.

On Alberto's birthday, his daughter Zezé gets engaged. But the party turns sour when he decides to expose his pain and regrets. (imdb)

Just when her family starts believing that she is dead, and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from Sao Paulo to her native village in Bahia, which she had been forced to leave long ago because of some involvement with a goat herd... (imdb)

Set in São Paulo, the plot of Rainha da Sucata portrays the universe of the new rich and the decadent elite of São Paulo, opposing two female characters, the emerging Maria do Carmo Pereira and the bankrupt socialite Laurinha Figueroa. (imdb)

Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land (imdb)

The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.

A mirror bought in an auction changes the life of an executive and his wife. They become sexually aroused under the influence of the strange object.

Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarreling, only to be reconciled moments later. (imdb)

After being run down by a car, a man asks a passer-by for a last kiss before dying. The other man, full of pity for him, obliges his wish. Soon it becomes the talk of the town, and perverted society starts implying that the two men were lovers, affecting his life and his marriage. (imdb)

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

Pressed by circumstances, a middle-class accountant accepts a job as a caretaker of a country house. (imdb)

The Four Keys Magic is a 1971 Brazilian film of the fantasy genre, directed by Alberto Salvá. The film is a recreation of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm.

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV. (imdb)

Erotic comedy in two segments. On the first, housewife finds her husband having sex with the housemaid. In order to avoid divorce, he promises to be faithful to her, but finds extremely hard to keep his word. The second is about a musician who places a strange bet: a sandwich in case he manages to conquer the heart (and have sex with) of a beautiful girl.

When powerful outlaw "Boca de Ouro" dies, a reporter interviews his former lover Guigui, to try to outline his personality. But the woman offers him three different versions of the facts, following the changes of her own personal feelings towards the man. (imdb)

This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as planned. (imdb)

To marry the daughter of a millionaire, a 'bon vivant', with the help of his womanizing friend, accepted the proposal of the bride's father to thrive a failed advertising agency, but some crooks steal the first check received by promotion of a hotel to be opened.