The best Martha Nowill’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Martha Nowill’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Martha Nowill.
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.
492: A Man Called Death
6.5/10
The story of Julio Batista, a professional killer who was responsible for almost 500 hundred murders in Brazil.
The Movie of My Life
7.2/10
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.
Between Us
7.1/10
A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.
Albatroz
5.3/10
Dreams and reality get mixed up in this sci-fi plot, focused on a photographer. When he photographs a terrorist attack during a trip to Jerusalem, his personal and professional lives plunge into turmoil.
Superpai
5.6/10
Diogo's 20th high school class reunion is coming up, and although he's married, sees it as an opportunity to hook up with his high school crush who will also be at the reunion. He and his wife have a young son, and everything is lined up so he can go to the reunion alone, hook up with the woman, and go home without his wife suspecting anything. Unfortunately for him, his wife's mother breaks her arm the night of the reunion and can't watch their son. Diogo scrambles to find a babysitter, ultimately settling on a nursery in a strange building. He goes to the party, meets up with the crush, but then has to leave. He and his three friends then go back to the nursery and pick up his son, who is wearing his favorite dog mask. While Diogo and his friends are on their way back to the reunion (he still hasn't hooked up with his former crush) he removes the dog mask and realizes the boy isn't his.
Air Bridge
6.5/10
Bruno and Amanda have to face the difficulties of a long distance relationship after meeting in a flight forced into an emergency landing.
Sunday
5.7/10
January 1st, 2003. When Brazil celebrates President Lula′s historic investiture, two middle-class, provincial families gather in an old, poorly maintained house. As they prepare a big party, secrets, hidden desires and frustrations are revealed.
A Noite da Virada
4.8/10
Ana and Duda, a couple who's in the verge of taking a break from their marriage, throw a New Year's party at their house. The party gets overcrowded with all kinds of people, and it's in the bathroom that most things will happen between them both and many other guests.
The Book of Delights
6.2/10
The film brings Clarice Lispector’s novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, Lóri is a lonely and melancholic woman. She divides her time between her duties as a school teacher and her relationships, which are always fast and shallow. By chance, she meets Ulisses, an acknowledged Philosophy professor, who is self centered and provocative. Although he knows nothing about women, Lóri learns with him how to love and to face her own loneliness.
Russian Red
6.5/10
Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
Aluga-se
How much does urban space influence our interior space?
Bewitched
It's more dificult to love than to be bewitched. The film has as it's central theme the loving separation, but the consequences of this separation are attributed to occult forces that throwing the protagonist in the world of Afro-Brazilian mystical religions.
Canção de Baal
5.8/10
A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.
Essa Maldita Vontade de Ser Passaro
4.8/10
