The best Cássio Gabus Mendes’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Cássio Gabus Mendes’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Cássio Gabus Mendes.
Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
6.2/10
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.
If I Were You 2
5.6/10
Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.
Teen's Confessions
6.5/10
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
Federal Bank Heist
5.9/10
"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
Chico Xavier
7.1/10
A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
Orfeu
5.5/10
Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives.
Predestinado: Arigó e o Espírito do Dr. Fritz
7.2/10
Baptism of Blood
7.1/10
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
Cheating in Chains
6.1/10
Olímpia loves her bosses, Inês and Eduardo. Eduardo loves Inês, his wife, who loves Eduardo, her husband. Inês is a friend of Lígia´s, who loves her husband Cristiano. Cristiano loves Lígia, his wife. Vera loves Cláudio, her husband, who doesnt love Vera. Inês thinks that Eduardo is having an affair with Salete, Cristiano thinks that Lígia is having an affair with Ricco, Vera thinks that Cláudio has an affair with Inês and Eduardo thinks that Inês has an affair with Cláudio. The action takes place in a middle class condo where Olímpia, a clumsy maid, carries out the most unbelievable confusions, making everybody believes that love is a game in which one always cheats.
Gosto se Discute
5/10
Boleiros - Era Uma Vez o Futebol...
7.3/10
Tribute to the world of soccer in Brazil. Group of ex-soccer players gather in a bar in São Paulo to remember old stories of their prime.
45 do Segundo Tempo
6.7/10
Money on the Side
6.1/10
Fishy businessman deposits some money in his secretary’s (and lover) account. But a typing mistake sends the money to an honest woman’s account, whose husband had just been fired.
Cabeça a Prêmio
5.9/10
The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.
Dercy de Verdade
7.7/10
The life story of Brazilian actress Dercy Gonçalves, told from her childhood days in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro all the way to her stardom.
Manual for Love Stories
5.9/10
Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that kind of film.
Ou Ficar a Pátria Livre ou Morrer Pelo Brasil
Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007.
Nem Tudo Que É Sonho Desmancha no Ar
O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil
Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the past.
