300 (2006)
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • War
DIRECTION: Zack Snyder
CAST: Gerard Butler • Lena Headey • Dominic West • David Wenham
Behind the Sun (2001) RT 74% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Jun 2002
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Walter Salles
CAST: José Dumont • Rodrigo Santoro • Rita Assemany • Ravi Ramos Lacerda
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Comedy
DIRECTION: Joseph McGinty Nichol
CAST: Cameron Diaz • Drew Barrymore • Lucy Liu • Bernie Mac
Che: Part Two (2009)
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • War
DIRECTION: Steven Soderbergh
CAST: Benicio del Toro • Catalina Sandino Moreno • Franka Potente • Demián Bichir
Love Actually (2003) RT 63% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Apr 2004
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Richard Curtis
CAST: Bill Nighy • Gregor Fisher • Colin Firth • Sienna Guillory
Carandiru (2003)
Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Hector Babenco
CAST: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos • Milton Gonçalves • Ivan de Almeida • Ailton Graça
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013) RT Audience 59%
The film narrates the love between Janaina and a native warrior who, when dying, takes the form of a bird. For six centuries, the story of the couple survives through four ... (more)
GENRES: Animation • Drama • History • Romance
DIRECTION: Luiz Bolognesi
CAST: Selton Mello • Camila Pitanga • Rodrigo Santoro
Pele (2016)
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Jeff Zimbalist • Michael Zimbalist
CAST: Kevin de Paula • Leonardo Lima Carvalho • Seu Jorge • Milton Gonçalves
Che: Part One (2008)
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • War
DIRECTION: Steven Soderbergh
CAST: Benicio del Toro • Demián Bichir • Rodrigo Santoro • Santiago Cabrera
Focus (2015)
Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Crime • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Glenn Ficarra • John Requa
CAST: Will Smith • Margot Robbie • Rodrigo Santoro • Robert Taylor
O Trapalhão e a Luz Azul (1999)
David, a rock singer, and Didi, his assistant, are transported to a distant world. They must help princess Allim to face the evil Vizir, who wants to become king by marrying her. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Alexandre Boury • Paulo Aragão
CAST: Renato Aragão • Dedé Santana • Roberto Guilherme • Adriana Esteves
Jane Got a Gun (2015) RT 40% / Audience 38%
DVD release: Apr 2016
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Western
DIRECTION: Gavin O'Connor
CAST: Natalie Portman • Joel Edgerton • Rodrigo Santoro • Ewan McGregor
300: Rise of an Empire (2014) RT 43% / Audience 52%
DVD release: Jun 2014
Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • War
DIRECTION: Noam Murro
CAST: Sullivan Stapleton • Eva Green • Lena Headey • Callan Mulvey
The Last Stand (2013) RT 60% / Audience 54%
DVD release: May 2013
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Kim Jee-woon
CAST: Arnold Schwarzenegger • Forest Whitaker • Rodrigo Santoro • Johnny Knoxville
Heleno (2012) RT 42% / Audience 55%
DVD release: Mar 2013
José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: José Henrique Fonseca
CAST: Rodrigo Santoro • Angie Cepeda • Alinne Moraes • Erom Cordeiro
My Country (2011)
A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: André Ristum
CAST: Rodrigo Santoro • Cauã Reymond • Débora Falabella • Paulo José
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) RT 22% / Audience 47%
DVD release: Sep 2012
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Kirk Jones
CAST: Anna Kendrick • Cameron Diaz • Elizabeth Banks • Jennifer Lopez
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) RT 56% / Audience 41%
DVD release: Apr 2013
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Philip Kaufman
CAST: Nicole Kidman • Clive Owen • Rodrigo Santoro • Robert Duvall
Rio (2011) RT 72% / Audience 71%
DVD release: Aug 2011
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Carlos Saldanha
CAST: Jesse Eisenberg • Anne Hathaway • Leslie Mann • Jane Lynch
There Be Dragons (2011) RT 11% / Audience 54%
DVD release: Jan 2012
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and ... (more)