Tizuka gained some critical acclaim with her film 1980 Gaijin, Os Caminhos da Liberdade, a story about Japanese immigration to Brazil.

In 2003, she completed Gaijin 2 as a sequel to her debut film.

A Brazilian actor might be a B-list action film actor in the US, but an A-list star in Portugal.

* Cassiopéia, a Brazilian CGI film

* 1946 – Hector Babenco, Brazilian film director

* 1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director

* 1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director

** Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian film director ( b. 1897 )

** Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director

* Amélia ( film ), a 2000 Brazilian film directed by Ana Carolina

He probably would have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had he not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Luis Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French / Brazilian film Black Orpheus, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Carmen Miranda, GCIH (, 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955 ) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

* Primo Filmes, a Brazilian film production company

* Cinema Novo or Novo Cinema, a movement in Brazilian and Portuguese film

In 2004, the film was listed as # 77 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments for the Brazilian birthday party scene.

The film also featured the song " Aquarela do Brasil ", written by the popular Brazilian songwriter Ary Barroso and performed by Aloysio De Oliveira and an instrumental version of " Tico-Tico no Fubá ", written by Zequinha de Abreu.

However after appearing in this film it became an international hit, becoming the first Brazilian song to be played over a million times on American radio.

The Brazilian film Tropa de Elite ( 2007 ) depicts an execution by burning in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian comedy group Hermes & Renato spoofed the film in their MTV program Tela Class, redubbing it as " Santa Claus e o pozinho mágico " ( Santa Claus and the Magic Powder ; " magic powder " being more loosely translated here as " angel dust ").

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

* In 1986 in the Brazilian musical film Ópera do Malandro ( American title Malandro ), by Ruy Guerra ( director ) and Chico Buarque ( writer and composer ).

Category: Brazilian film score composers

* Bicho de Sete Cabeças, 2001 Brazilian film about life in a mental hospital

A film that " uses gorgeous, saturated images set to an eclectic soundtrack of tango by Argentinian maestro Astor Piazolla, Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso and Frank Zappa instrumentals to chronicle the stormy affair of a gay couple living as expatriates in Buenos Aires.

The Circe episode has figured in film adaptations of the Odyssey.

He first appears in the story 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, released as both a novel and a film in 1968.

One famous example of montage was seen in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the start of man's first development from apes to humans.

HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.

* In Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris ( 1963 ), German film director Fritz Lang plays himself attempting to direct a film adaptation of the Odyssey.

* The film Pandorum has many story elements of the Odyssey.

* The film Ulysses ' Gaze ( 1995 ) directed by Theo Angelopoulos has many of the elements of the Odyssey set against the backdrop of the most recent and previous Balkan Wars.

* Polyphemus was featured in the 1955 film Ulysses where he was played by Oscar Andriani, as well as the 1997 TV miniseries The Odyssey where he was played by Reid Asato.

Moog was a principal interview subject in the award-winning documentary film, Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, the success of which revived interest in the theremin.

Since the release of the film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey in 1994, the instrument has enjoyed a resurgence in interest and has become more widely used by contemporary musicians.

* Ulysses ( 1955 film ), starring Kirk Douglas based on the story of Homer's Odyssey

** The film 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres in Washington, D. C.

* In the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ( and the corresponding 1968 film ), a spaceship's onboard computer, HAL 9000, attempts to kill all its crew members.

In the followup 1982 novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, and the accompanying 1984 film, 2010, it is revealed that this action was caused by the computer having been programmed with two conflicting objectives: to fully disclose all its information, and to keep the true purpose of the flight secret from the crew ; this conflict caused HAL to become paranoid and eventually homicidal.

If one film could be said to have established a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, who assembled his own effects team ( Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pedersen and Wally Veevers ) rather than use an in-house effects unit.

John Bergey, the head of Hamilton's Pulsar division, said that he was inspired to make a digital timepiece by the then-futuristic digital clock that Hamilton themselves made for the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

Several film adaptations of the novel have been attempted, with director Stanley Kubrick expressing interest in the 1960s, but collaborating with Clarke on 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) instead.

The films may be major releases, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Patton, or less well-known, like 2005's showing of the French film Play Time.

* Apparently inert yet powerful alien artifacts, such as the monolith in Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey series, the object from the film, Epoch, and the Excession from Iain M. Banks ' novel of that name.

The manga and 1984 anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, was indirectly inspired by the character in the Odyssey.

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick's ground-breaking film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicted such a role for " Space Station V ".