Movie
The French Teacher
2026
A slow, suffocating descent into paranoia and religious dread, anchored by a quiet, unsettling performance.
- Directed by
- Ricardo Alves Jr.
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror, Mystery
- Starring
- Grace Passô, Pedro Goifman, Jehnny Beth
- Overview
- Graça, a lesbian woman living in Belo Horizonte with her French girlfriend Clara, gives private French lessons to support herself in a large Brazilian metropolis. As an independent Black woman from a lower-middle-class background, she finds herself confronted by the dark side of religious fanaticism when she is forced to live with an extremist evangelical family that gradually involves her in a mysterious plot that leads her to lose her mind.
- How it feels
- Dark, tense, eerie and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Faith, isolation, identity, madness
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ricardo Alves Jr.
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror, Mystery
- Starring
- Grace Passô, Pedro Goifman, Jehnny Beth
