Black God, White Devil

A landmark work of Brazil’s socially committed Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha’s blistering existential western is a radical, scorched-earth allegory in which myth, mysticism, and revolution collide.

After killing his swindling boss, a ranch hand goes on the run with his wife and pledges allegiance to a self-styled holy man who perpetrates unspeakable acts of violence against the innocent.