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Humberto Carrão has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
Recurring themes
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 a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho · With Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
Dir. Wagner Moura · With Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.
Dir. Gabriela Amaral Almeida · With Murilo Benício, Luciana Paes, Irandhir Santos
