12 Films & TV Shows Set In Brazil During The 19th Century
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Valley of the Righteous
🇧🇷 Brazil The 19th CenturyIn the 19th century Minas Gerais hinterland, an outsider discovers a mysterious bar.
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Vazante
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1820sBrazil 1821. Upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a rich cattle herder, finds out that his wife dies in labor. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife's niece. A restless soul, he returns to droving, leaving his young wife behind alone with the slaves.
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Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1820s The 2090s The 16th CenturyThe film narrates the love between Janaína and a native warrior who, when dying, takes the form of a bird. For six centuries, the story of the couple survives through four stages in the history of Brazil: 1500, when the country was discovered by the Portuguese explorers, 1800, in events during slavery; 1970, during the high point of the military dictatorship, and 2096, when there will be a war over water.
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Time and the Wind
🇧🇷 Brazil The 19th CenturyBased on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, The Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
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The Inventor of Dreams
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1800sCentered on two young boys, an aristocrat and a native, chronicles the period in which Brazil went from colony to the center of the Portuguese Empire.
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Posthumous Memories
🇧🇷 Brazil The 19th CenturyFree adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
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Young Toscanini
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1880sA fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
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Fitzcarraldo
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇪 Peru The 1890sFitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
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Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
🇧🇷 Brazil The 20th Century The 19th CenturyIn the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
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The Fenouillard Family
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇯🇵 Japan The 19th CenturyThe Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
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Guarany
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1870s The 1850s The 1840s The 1860sBased on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda.
