AUWE Movies

Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year-old bodybuilder who lives with his mother, sets off to Thailand in search of love.

Sao Paulo, winter of 1971, the country is under the military dictatorship. Theater director João Pedro divides his time between rehearsals of Peter Weiss's The Investigation, arguments with his ex-wife, horse racing bets, and doubts about clandestine political activity. In between rehearsals, João Pedro receives visits from a member of the Communist Party, who does not understand his aesthetic and political options, and is unhappy with how the director is conducting the rehearsals of the play, which is partially funded by the party. At the same time, his brother Getúlio and his girlfriend, Lilian - two young idealists - are led to collaborate with the political resistance when they are asked to give refuge to two men persecuted by the military regime. The only viable option is to hide them in Lilian's grandfather's house, a respectable retired military. The decision will lead each of them to reflect on the issue of political engagement and its implications on ordinary life.

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional brazilian music of that time.

People from different backgrounds live around the clock differently - Some struggle against monotony, others escape through drugs or music; some run against time to save lives, ignoring that time is irreversible.

Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.

Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.

A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."

A awkward burglar believes that he has taken control of a small roadside stand and the woman who runs it. She is in control most of the time, in love and making plans for the future.

Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.

A father and his daughter, during the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon.

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

Behold the Lamb is darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie, a fifty year old overweight and depressed accountant and Liz, a young tearaway as they travel across Northern Ireland to pick up a lamb.

Tino and Jane, a couple from Rio, suddenly become millionaires after winning the lottery. 16 years later they have two children, but Tino is trying to hide from Jane that they face bankruptcy.

A grown man wakes up to discover he is a teenager again.

Alice, a Woody Allen-obsessed pharmacist and hopeless romantic, meets a charming man named Victor but has trouble committing to him.

The friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.

The feelings of guilt, disgust and indignation assailing David, an executive whose 16-year-old daughter is murdered - serve as the main guideline. The film, shot in an urban bus straddled on a sidewalk, in addition to the executive and his daughter, has the following characters: a bus-driver, a ticket collector and a woman. In the wake of totally different experiences and destinies, these characters end up by realizing the uselessness of closing oneself up to life however adverse reality may be, however brutish daily life presents itself to us.

A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.

A collection of vignettes presenting possible experiences in the lives of dinosaurs during various periods.

Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.

Three young people with Down syndrome decide to run away in search of three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly.

When octogenarians Rosa and Bruno meet and fall in love, they decide to give their relationship a chance although Rosa is diagnosed with cancer.