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Browse 31 movies from Filmes de Plástico
A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career.
Aug 2022
Despite having the scar that marks the domesticated, Juliana has to keep her freedom. Is romance the ultimate trap?
Dec 2021
In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past.
Jan 2019
An event, four people and the city of Contagem.
Nov 2010
Luiza will turn 15. Raquel has some dreams.
Mar 2014
In a small Brazilian seaside town we follow the efforts of Paula, who is pregnant of her third child, to build a pool in her humble beach house, so the family can enjoy the rest of their vacation. Financial difficulties will interrupt the work and reveal certain aspects of a tense family routine, full of small frustrations.
May 2022
Upcoming film from the director of ‘Mars One’ in partnership with Netflix and the producer Filmes de Plástico.
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Travel through time without leaving your place.
Jan 2024
Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn’t want to do anything.
May 2017
In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood’s street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts – awaits the return of electricity. Now, ten years later, the light tries to impose its place towards the shadows of memory.
Apr 2021
Andre and Elida are dating for a short time. In real life and in fiction.
Jan 2013
A man waits on the top of his house's roof with his friend. They are talking to each other until this friend realises something quite strange.
May 2010
Zeca tries to get up early to catch the bus and arrive an hour and a half later at the neighboring town’s school, where he works as a librarian. Waking up early is evermore difficult: something prevents him from maintaining his routine. One day, Zeca meets Louisa.
Sep 2024
Pilo, Panda and Isaac are childhood friends. One of them decides to ask his girlfriend to marry him at sameday the other two learn she is cheating on him with her gym instructor
Jan 2014
With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday life. More precisely, the life of Maria José and Norberto, who have been married for 35 years and who live in Contagem, in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte. Their marriage is on the rocks, which leads their two sons to also wonder about the future of their own relationships with their wives. The story is quite ordinary. How can one capture such an impercep- tible shift in the heart of the banality of things, only made more noticeable by a crisis? Filming his own family, his own parents, his brother and himself, André Novais Oliveira has chosen to take his time. He shots long sequences, leaving enough time for the fictional situations on which he puts his characters to grow and unfold. Then he uses wide frames to linger on more mundane, concrete or at times farcical moments: eating an orange, cooking, watching television...
Feb 2016
The everyday life of a Belo Horizonte lower class neighborhood.
Jun 2018
Faced with the imminence of the end of the world, a group of friends travel to a place to spend their last moments together.
Jun 2011
Sep 2016
Another day in the life of an elderly couple in the suburbs.
May 2015
Gilberto and Jacira promised to grow old together – for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. Till death them do part.