Critical Movies

On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising 17-year-old volleyball player Sofia is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal...

After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer...

After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general leads a filmmaker through a bunker as paranoia escalates and reality begins to fracture. Blending dark...

Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love...

A teenage girl with self-esteem issues finds confidence in the most unlikely way, by spending her summer battling vampires that prey on New Orleans'...

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French...

In CURTAINS, Sandra Hüller tells the story of a woman who breaks out of a long-term violent relationship and of a political and social system...

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in...

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in...

After his wife's death, Fernando becomes a quiet and introspective man who raises his son, Daniel by himself. Every night, while the boy is sleeping,...

A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a...

Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. But only for a...

In this one-man Broadway show, John Leguizamo finds humor and heartbreak as he traces 3,000 years of Latin history in an effort to help his bullied...

The BRICS countries now represent half of the world's population and 40% of GDP. Seen by some as an anti-Western coalition and by others as an...

A thirty-something aspiring children's author, labeled "meskina" (pity case) by her Moroccan-Dutch community for still being career-less and single,...

Three metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love...

Estamira is a 63-year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. She leads a tough life and has supported herself for the past 20 years by picking...

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São...

Based on the classic Brazilian television series that conquered audiences during Sunday night prime time on TV Globo, with improv that happens like...