Fernanda Torres’s award-winning performance anchors this dramatic portrait of an indomitable woman and her family.

In the early 60s, Brazil initiated a quiet musical revolution by exporting the silky sound of bossa nova to the rest of the world. 1964 was a significant year for pop music. It not only witnessed ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies, sailors ...

Fernanda Torres stars in Walter Salles’s drama about the disappearance of a dissident under the nation’s military dictatorship in the 1970s.

Joao Figueiredo, the last of the military dictators who governed Brazil between 1964 and 1985. She was also the beloved creator of two marching bands at schools in sister cities straddling the ...

From a star-studded adaptation of a novel to a documentary about Tejano icon Selena Quintanilla, this year's slate of movies ...

What American record buyers discovered in ‘80s and ‘90s as “world music” was no novelty to the musicians who had been making ...

The global success of Brazilian movie "I'm Still Here" -- riding high after three Oscars nominations -- has set off a ...

"Kiss of the Spider Woman," which premiered Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival, captures the poignant drama of the original ...