Movies

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with...

An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he...

The delicate process of rebuilding the memory and identity of the Guatós Indians, currently scattered throughout the Pantanal region.

During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she...

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of...

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil,...

The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically...

The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who ran away with another, the girl seeks comfort on...

Film based on Manoel de Barros poetry. Story about poet's life in the swamp area of Brazil (Pantanal) and its wildlife; & his obsession with the sea...

Former political activist receives compensation from the Brazilian government for the disappearance of her husband, victim of the repression...

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in...

A Brazilian actress travels to New York in search of her long-lost sister, piecing together fragments of the past while confronting the lasting scars...

Selma, a retired nurse, is an extremely loving mother for his son Raimundo, in an almost incestuous relationship. One day, she becomes aware of some...

Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her...

A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint –...

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell...

On the day of her mother's wake, filmmaker Tata Amaral's uncle tells her a surprising story: in his youth, her father, Joaquim, had been a wealthy...

São Paulo, today. Bones are found in an anonymous grave and sent to the morgue. The coroner Artur deals with actresses and extremists. A body...

A woman ready to move away from Brazil is kidnapped by her jealous ex-lover.