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Stories Set in Recife
Recife is a northeastern port of canals and bridges with a fierce regional pride. Its filmmakers turned middle-class apartment life into art-house cinema about gentrification and memory. Aquarius and Neighboring Sounds are the twin landmarks. Open Recife on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 1 book and 5 movies set in Recife.
Aquarius
Clara a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be…
Neighboring Sounds
An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife Brazil.
Mango Yellow
In a poor neighborhood in Recife the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works in the hotel and has a crush on the butcher Wellington that is married…
The Seamstress
As seamstresses, the young sisters Emília and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, how to mend, and how to conceal. These are useful skills in the lawless backcountry of Brazil, where ruthless land barons called "colonels"…
Rat Fever
Zizo a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato and spews poetry…
The Secret Agent
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
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