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Aka: The Little Thief
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs. In the night that they have scheduled a negotiation with African buyers, their African liaison dies while having sex with the travesty Nazda. Sinatra proposes to the Nigerian dishwasher of the brothel, Wemba, to travel to the harbor of Santos, close the business with the drug deale...
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rs and in return he would receive a large amount. Wemba accepts but while returning to his car in the harbor, he is attacked by two smalltime thieves and passes out. His lack of contact with Sinatra and Paul leads to a sequence of misunderstandings with a tragic end.
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Vader Sinatra en zoon Paul proberen beide te ontsnappen uit het desolate en uitzichtsloze bestaan, dat de Braziliaanse porno-industrie zo kenmerkt. Deze afzonderlijke ontsnappingspoging heeft echter wel tot gevolg dat de relatie tussen vader en zoon hevig wordt aangetast, waardoor zij uiteindelijk steeds meer tegenover elkaar komen te staan.
Encompassing a single, fateful evening in the sprawling megalopolis of Sao Paulo, Journey to the End of the Night is a gritty, crime thriller about an illicit transaction gone awry--Two Americans in exile--Rosso (Scott Glenn) and his son, Paul (Brendan Fraser)--have been carving out a living in Brazil running a nightclub-brothel, but they both harbor dreams of getting out of the business once and for all. One night, it seems their prayers are answered when a customer leaves behind a suitcase in the club that contains the means for Rosso and Paul to change their fates. Rosso will take his beautiful, young wife Ang...
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ie (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and their 5 year-old son Lazare to start over in a new city, far away. Paul will escape mounting debt, an escalating coke habit, and finally be rid of his father (whom he despises and blames for all of his problems). It all depends on one person--a Nigerian immigrant named Wemba (Mos Def)--who must make his way safely through the perilous, nocturnal gauntlet of Sao Paulo.
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