From Brasil to Portugal to Angola, the Portguese language reflects vastly different cultures arouond the world. If you want to brush up on your Portuguese language skills and watch some great cinema while you’re at it, here are the best movies and shows to stream now.
La Chimera is often meandering. Scenes flitter about and move at different paces, resembling dreams more than they do reality,…
Kill Bill meets Bend It Like Beckham in this wild ride about a martial arts-obsessed British-Pakistani teenager who views her…
Forget everything you know about the music biopic. One-on-one interviews, chronological storytelling, silent moments with the subjects—Moonage Daydream isn’t that…
At the height of a military dictatorship in Brazil, forced disappearances were an unfortunately common occurrence. It was the government’s…
At once intimate and sweeping, A Thousand and One seamlessly weaves Inez’s personal turmoil and familial troubles with the systemic…
Mars One is a tender, wholesome drama that centers on The Martins, a family of four living on the fringes…
In both documentaries and films, adoptees meeting their biological parents for the first time is an event often painted in…
The initial charm of Hacks is in watching sparks fly between its sharp-tongued leads. Neither the elderly Deborah nor the…
Belfast stars Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as the mother of a working-class Northern Irish family during The Troubles. Religious tension and…
From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…
Given that this is based on a recent, real life case, and the defendant has chosen to remain behind the…
Like people, places have things that change and things that remain the same. Most of us keep our thoughts about…
Renowned choreographer Benjamin Millepied brings an 1875 opera leaping into the 21st century with this modern retelling — through dance…
When Big Tech and trolls have all but villainized the internet, it’s hard to forget that good can come out…
It doesn’t feel quite right to call Pacifiction a political thriller — at 2 hours 45 minutes and with an…
Though it doesn’t proceed like most animal/nature-centered documentaries that you’ve seen, the Oscar-nominated All That Breathes is instantly memorable in…
Every once in a while there are movies that expand the definition of quality film-making. This is one of those…
It’s difficult not to compare Of an Age to other beautifully shot and tenderly told queer love stories like Call…
The Fabelmans is often described as director Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical movie about his inauguration into filmmaking, and while it certainly…
There’s a lot of good to be found in the charming, poignant, and endlessly quotable Marcel the Shell With Shoes…
Filled with dense conversations about classical music and cryptic suggestions of a guilty conscience, Tár makes for a challenging watch…
It’s inspiring to see that, even after Jordan Peele made the jump to blockbuster budgets, he hasn’t lost the ability…
Science Fair is simultaneously a feel-good documentary and a feel-bad one: while inspiring and reassuring for all the brilliant young…
This incredibly creative and unique movie is set in a fictional small town in the Brazilian Backcountry. It has a…
We’ve already seen the coming-of-age conflict presented in Música in other films– namely, where parents, society, and loved ones expect…
If Katrina Babies seems like a somewhat disjointed account of the myriad responses to Hurricane Katrina and the U.S. government’s…
Somewhere in Queens has the familiar feel of an indie dramedy. It’s intimate and unassuming, casually funny and effortlessly moving.…
Most computer screen films take the horror film route as a cautionary tale about technology and how we use it.…
Surprisingly dramatic for a documentary but without exoticizing its central characters for a privileged audience, The Territory is that rare…
If you’ve never heard of Sonia Braga, you’re in for a ride with this movie. She is, in my opinion,…
The Outfit doesn’t need to do a lot to be as sleek and surprising as it is. In fact, much…
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