Divã (2009)

Actors: Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues (producer), Antonio Pedro (actor), Henrique César (actor), Elias Gleizer (actor), Diana Vasconcellos (editor), José Mayer (actor), Anna Luiza Müller (miscellaneous crew), Lília Cabral (actress), Iafa Britz (producer), Iafa Britz (producer), Marcelo Guerra (producer), Marcelo Guerra (miscellaneous crew), Marcelo Saback (writer), Walkiria Barbosa (producer), Walkiria Barbosa (producer),

Plot: In Rio de Janeiro, the forty-something year old, Mercedes, goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life - from a child who lost her mother. Over three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces her husband, Gustavo, and has love affairs with Theo and other young men, always supported by her best friend Monica.

Keywords: art-gallery, bad-cook, based-on-play, best-friend, brazilian-culture, brazilian-middle-class, bride-dress, cancer, church, coiffeur
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Mercedes: I hate female intuition. Mine has never given me any good news.

[while setting the dining table]::Mercedes: Today I decided to do something different.::Gustavo: [looking at the food] Roast beef?::Mercedes: No, chicken.::Gustavo: [making a face] Oh... even better.::[She goes back to the kitchen. Their son arrives the room]::Filho de Mercedes 2: [looking at the food] Roast beef?::Gustavo: No, chicken.::Filho de Mercedes 2: Oh, shit.

Mercedes: Oh, impossible loves... No woman can resist an impossible love.

[First lines]::Mercedes: [Voiceover] We get born and we die. And in the mean time we study, we work, we get married, we have children, we exercise... we get sick. No one escapes it. When I paint, I'm not thinking about becoming a celebrity. My painting is a way to express all the loose things about me, about my personality. [pause] That's me. My name is Mercedes.

[about her wedding night]::Mercedes: [Voiceover] When we got to our room and he shut the door, we realized our marriage wouldn't be like the others. He didn't say "alone at last". He said...::Gustavo: Together at last.

[Mercedes is setting the dining table]::Mercedes: Today I decided to do something different.::Gustavo: [looking at the food] Oh, I love roast beef!::Mercedes: No, it's chicken.::Gustavo: [making a face] Oh. Even better.::[She goes back into the kitchen]::Filho de Mercedes 1: [whispering] Dad... the chicken is still breathing.::[Filho de Mercedes 2 walks into the dining room]::Filho de Mercedes 2: Roast beef?::Gustavo: No, chicken.::Filho de Mercedes 2: Oh, shit.

Mercedes: [to her shrink] There are so many women inside of me... and a few men as well. Prepare for group therapy!... Just kidding.

[Trying to get her husband's attention]::Mercedes: I told her I work as a *ho* in a downtown strip club!::Gustavo: [shocked] You said that to her?

Hillary: Sexual harassment is only criminal when the guy is ugly. Am I right?

[At the theater with Mercedes]::Gustavo: [voiceover] I can't believe I came to the theater on a Saturday night. It can't be. I've been here for half an hour and it seems like I walked in Tuesday! When I get out of here, I'll get hammered. And you'll start nagging me, saying I'll pass out because I don't have a young man's liver anymore! The only thing she talks about now is my liver. Few years ago, she talked about my legs, my smile, my ass, my gaze... Now it's my liver, my pancreas! *That's* loving someone's inside!

Bienvenue dans mon pays (2004)

Actors: Vincent Garenq (writer), Vincent Garenq (director), Olivier Brémond (producer), Arthur Jacquin (actor),

Genres: Documentary,

Irmãos Coragem (1995)

Actors: Cláudio Marzo (actor), Marcos Palmeira (actor), Laura Cardoso (actress), Emiliano Queiroz (actor), Nelson Xavier (actor), Milton Gonçalves (actor), Jonas Bloch (actor), Cláudio Cavalcanti (actor), Jorge Cherques (actor), Dira Paes (actress), Mário Petráglia (actor), Lúcia Alves (actress), Dary Reis (actor), Zilka Salaberry (actress), Cosme dos Santos (actor),

Genres: ,

C'était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues (1994)

Actors: Luc Proulx (actor), Roy Dupuis (actor), Pierre Curzi (actor), Josée Mauffette (producer), Aron Tager (actor), Claude Gagnon (actor), Renée April (costume designer), Pascale Montpetit (actress), Emmanuel Bilodeau (actor), Gaétan Huot (editor), David Francis (actor), Richard Grégoire (composer), Lucie Laurier (actress), Elise Guilbault (actress), Francine Ruel (actress),

Plot: At a railway station in Montreal passengers are stranded due to a snowstorm. One of the stranded, Pierre-Paul discovers a young school girl on the brink of suicide. While he searches for someone to intervene, Chili, the young girl, disappears, only to reappear of her own accord, after Pierre-Paul's fruitless search. This brief encounter leads to flashback revelations and interaction amongst the supporting characters also stranded in the storm.

Keywords: female-to-male-foot-in-crotch
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Chili: Dad said heaven was like the police. You need your Grade 10 diploma to get in.

Soneto do Desmantelo Blue (1993)

Actors: Walmor Chagas (actor), Henrique Amaral (actor), Aramis Trindade (actor), Vânia Debs (editor), Cláudio Assis (director), Virginia Cavendish (actress), Rivaldo Casado (actor), Adelina Pontual (writer), Renata Pinheiro (actress), Marcelo Pinheiro (actor), Manoel Constantino (actor), Rubem Rocha Filho (actor), Cláudio Ferrario (actor), João Augusto Lyra (actor), Vital Santos (writer),

Genres: Drama, Short,

Daughters of Darkness, revu et corrigé (1987)

Actors: Bert André (actor), Jean-Noël Gobron (editor), Jean-Noël Gobron (producer), Jean-Noël Gobron (writer), Jean-Noël Gobron (director), Anne Ledent (actress), Mick Orlando (actor), Pierre Vervloesem (composer), Pierre Vervloesem (actor), Anne Fontigny (composer), Christian Martin (composer), Dany Trossat (composer), Hélène Gallard (actress),

Genres: Drama, Horror, Short,

Arvottomat (1982)

Actors: Aki Kaurismäki (actor), Mika Kaurismäki (director), Aki Kaurismäki (writer), Mika Kaurismäki (producer), Mika Kaurismäki (writer), Aki Kaurismäki (writer), Paavo Piskonen (actor), Lauri Törhönen (actor), Pehr-Olof Sirén (actor), Esko Nikkari (actor), Matti Pellonpää (actor), Aarre Karén (actor), Pirkko Hämäläinen (actress), Veikko Aaltonen (actor), Riitta Havukainen (actress),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Ville Alfa: [Ville wakes up when Manne has pushed him] Don't push me! Aren't you afraid that my shoulder might come loose.

Manne: [when finding out that it is possible to make a direct phone call from Finland to Paris] Blessed the technology!

Harri: [after being beaten up Manne places a loosen tooth in his car's ahtray] So you put the tooth in there.::Manne: So I did.::Harri: Odd bargaining... It is not my business at all, but...::Manne: [interrupts] Just a moment of silence to honour it, please!

Manne: [stops a car] I'm a bad person, I'm a nasty person, an unpleasent person. I believe my liver is sick. Could you give me a ride to the airport?

Manne: [Manne arrives at Baari Bar] Good morning, Vasili! Small coffee!::Vasili: That's all?::Manne: A glass of calvados, and water::Vasili: With calvados you get salad of the day.::Manne: That's illegal!::Vasili: Only if you get caught. You order so little nowadays.::Manne: That's because of my high personal morals.::Vasili: Little more of morals like that and I'll have to close this place.::Manne: Put these on my tap.::Vasili: It's illegal to sell on credit.::Manne: Not if you don't get caught. Do you want my coat as collateral?::Vasili: That one? I'd have to hire a man to guard it. It's on the house.::Manne: Thank you.

Manne: How's business.::Manne: Lousy. Every time I manage to sell something some pig sells me more. I never make any money.::Manne: Buy cheaper and sell dearer.::Ville Alfa: Good idea! Very good idea! Would you do so?::Manne: Not me, but other dealers.

Juippi: Leaving is the most important thing.::Anna-Kaarina: Why don't you leave then?::Juippi: You want me to leave, woman?::Anna-Kaarina: I guess not.::Juippi: You don't sound too convinced.

Harri: [Manne phones to Harri] American Express, it's me!::Manne: I decide to come.::Harri: What if a spring storm blows you away?::Manne: A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. When are you starting?::Harri: I've already started. I've planned to drink plenty today.::Manne: All right! I'll come as old age.::Harri: I understand. I ask Juippi to slaughter the fatted calf. Auf Wienerschnitzelf!

Ville Alfa: You've got something wrong with your head?::Manne: Who wouldn't have?

Manne: [checking a painting] I knew it::Ville Alfa: Is it a fake?::Manne: No. How did you get his?::Ville Alfa: I bought it from a hysterical woman who needed a ticket far away. I gave here all I had, over 2000 marks. She said she got it from her mother. That's what they always say.

Wakakusa no Shârotto (1977)

Actors: Ichirô Nagai (actor), Kôhei Miyauchi (actor), Kazue Komiya (actress), Rokurô Naya (actor), Keiko Yokozawa (actress), Shin'ichi Yukimuro (writer), Yoshito Yasuhara (actor), Akiko Tsuboi (actress), Akiko Tsuboi (actress), Ichirô Murakoshi (actor), Osamu Katô (actor), Yôko Matsuoka (actress), Yasuo Muramatsu (actor), Eiji Okabe (director), Hiromasa Suzuki (composer),

Genres: ,

J'ai gagné un million (1936)

Actors: Marguerite Beaugé (editor), Marcel Roels (actor), Simone Max (actress), Jean Schouten (actor), Lucien Prad (actor), Marjorie King (actress), Og Calster (director), Raymonde Sartène (actress), Walter Ruffax (actor), Og Calster (writer), Blanche Duckers (actress), Marcel Savières (actor), Jeanne Max (actress), Alex Mondose (actor), Jeanne Garin (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Strictly Dynamite (1934)

Actors: Edgar Norton (actor), Elliott Nugent (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Edmund Mortimer (actor), Jimmy Durante (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Leonid Kinskey (actor), Stanley Fields (actor), John McGuire (actor), Norman Foster (actor), William Gargan (actor), Sterling Holloway (actor), Eugene Pallette (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

[Moxie is introduced to a child actor of the "legitimate" stage]::Moxie Slaight: Well I'm glad he was legitimate once.

Moxie Slaight: We got a verbal contract, and I'm going to sign it!