Alcione - Duas Faces

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Christopher Monger

Cast

Hugh Laurie, Vanessa Nunes, Santiago Segura

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its so...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Marcel Camus

Cast

Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Fausto Guerzoni

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 is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kid...

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Carlos Saldanha

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann