Manfredo Bahia

O Cangaceiro

This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout Northeastern Brazil in the 1930s. This group of outlaws is led by Captain Galdino and his wife Maria Bonita.

Saturday

On a Saturday morning, an advertising crew arrives at a decadent old building downtown São Paulo to shoot a TV commercial. And then everything goes wrong, beginning with a broken elevator

Scent of Gardenias

Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.

Doida Demais

Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot.

Soul's Boundary

The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.

Jubiabá

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.

Hidden City

After seven years in jail, Anjo meets up with his former accomplice, now head of a criminal organization. The former detainee finds himself embroiled with an underworld star, Shirley Sombra, and finds enmity with a corrupt police officer.

Sete Dias de Agonia

After a heavy rain storm, several vehicles get stuck on a muddy road. Soon hunger and fatigue change people's manners, making them behave in a very noncivilized way.

The Highway of Life

The rise of real life country singers Milionário e José Rico from their humble beginnings until musical success.

Rain Lovers

A curious story: it rains whenever a couple of lovers meet. Against the weather forecast, it rains all over the city. And as the love grows, the stronger becomes the rain. Found by a television crew, they receive the title of "Rain Lovers", and their dates become public spectacles.

As Três Mortes de Solano

Solano is often plagued by nightmares in which, during the Middle Ages, he is pursued by the hunter Faro, who intends to kill him. On discovering, in an antiquarian, a tapestry that represents a hunt and that reminds him of his dream, he tries to buy it, but the owner refuses to sell it.