19-10-1940
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Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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19-10-1940
Birthday
Libra
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131
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Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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A Fúria
Third part of Ruy Guerra's trilogy initiated in "Os Fuzis" (1964) and "A Queda" (1978).Year:
2024
Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”
Year:
2024
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.Year:
2023
Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.Year:
2022
São Ateu
Year:
2022
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.Year:
2020
Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.Year:
2019
Resistance
Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.Year:
2019
What are you Laughing At? Humour and Dictatorship
Even with all the brutality in the Brazilian dictatorial period, many artists presented themselves as a resistance, using their talent and creativity as a way to trick the censorship.Year:
2018
10 Centavos para o Número da Besta
Paulo Cesar Pereio is an unique figure in the history of Brazilian cinema. Winner of a number of awards and with a career that spans from legendary Cinema Novo features to erotic comedies and many other kinds of projects, Pereio remembers the roles of his life in a number of interviews.Year:
2018
New Amsterdam
The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.Year:
2017
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
Year:
2015
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme
Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awakens toYear:
2015
Blue Blood
When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.Year:
2014
Éramos Todos Loucos
A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.Year:
2014
Anita & Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi (Gabriel Braga Nunes), 32 years old, commander of the republican rebels that invade Laguna, Santa Catarina, during the Farrapos War (1835 - 1845), finds his soul mate in Anita (Ana Paula Arósio), 18 years old, wife of local shoemaker. Between passion and battles, they will define the course of their lives and influence the course of the revolution.Year:
2013
The Beheading Game
Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.Year:
2013
The Invisible Collection
The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man’s soul.Year:
2013
Dossiê 50: Comício a Favor dos Náufragos
Journalist Geneton Moraes Neto interviews Brazilian international players who lost to Uruguayan national team in the finals of the World Cup 1950 in Maracanã stadium.Year:
2013
Zéfiro Explícito
Year:
2012
I'll be damned!
A city in turmoil with the arrival of many monkeys. Based on the eponymous short story by famous Brazilian writer Fernando Sabino.Year:
2012
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.Year:
2011
Ponto Org
Year:
2011
O Gerente
A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.Year:
2011
Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The film presents the events of the prison, life in exile and the return to the country.Year:
2011
Boys In Kichute
A 12 year old boy dreams of becoming a goalkeeper for the national Brazilian soccer team, but first he has to overcome his own fears to convince his team boys club and his father who is against competition.Year:
2010
Boca
Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.Year:
2010
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.Year:
2009
Homo Erectus
Short about new discoveries about a frozen man in the Alps, found a few years ago. The animation is done frame by frame, and it was all drawn by hand.Year:
2009
Terra
Year:
2008
Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.Year:
2008
Dossiê Rê Bordosa
Envy? Ego issues? Malice? In 1987, Angeli, one of the most important cartoonists in Brazil, coldly murdered one of his most famous creations, the underground diva Rê Bordosa.Year:
2008
Noel: The Samba Poet
The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.Year:
2007
Drained
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.Year:
2006
Guará, Ladrão de Estrelas
Year:
2006
Gatão de Meia Idade
Forty-year-old Cláudio is always looking for a romantic relationship. His routine changes when he has to take care of his 12-year-old daughter: women no longer look at him and the conquest tactics have no effect.Year:
2006
Era Uma Vez Iracema
Year:
2005
Nanoilusão
He observes his reality with astonishment. She multiplies herself in images. An admirable event happens.Year:
2005
Dry Movie
Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.Year:
2005
Pobres Diabos No Paraíso
Year:
2005
The Macabre Sarcophagus
Year:
2005
Onde Anda Você
Felício, an old comedian, is in decadence after his partner Mandarim's suicide. When he finds out his former love Paloma has died, he leaves São Paulo and heads for the faraway State of Piauí, North of Brazil, in search of a new partner. He believes that if he manages to find him, the good times will return.Year:
2004
Veja & Ouça - Maria Baderna no Brasil
In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film uses passages supposed to be about her to criticize modern Brazil, the dictatorship period and also a homage to filmmakers like Rogério Sganzerla.Year:
2004
Superstição
Actor Paulo César Pereio drives his family and friends in a car through the hills of the city of Santos. Fasten your seatbelts!Year:
2004
Harmada
A failed artist searching strength to move ahead. By a young lady, who might be his daughter, he develops a project that changes his destiny.Year:
2003
The Man of the Year
Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours.Year:
2003
Long Take
Fictional documentary about Rubs, one of Brazil's greatest film stars.Year:
2002
Onde Andará Petrucio Felker?
Year:
2001
Traveller
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.Year:
1998
Quintana dos 8 aos 80
Year:
1998
Razor in the Flesh
The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the homosexual Veludo speak of their lives and expose their marginality.Year:
1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."Year:
1997
Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.Year:
1996
Love!
A funny yet bitter panorama of the several possible viewpoints of this feeling that fulfils hearts and minds.Year:
1994
Vagas Para Moças de Fino Trato
In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promiscuous life, having one night stand with the most different men every day and her behavior is criticized by Gertreudes; and Lúcia is dreamer that manipulates Gertrudes and expects that the handyman Alfredo becomes her prince charming. Their conflictive relationship ends when Madalena discloses their inner feelings and secrets to each other.Year:
1993
Naval Battle
The disaster of the fall of a bridge, followed by the greatest of all disasters: human stupidity.Year:
1992
Perigo Negro
Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gamblerYear:
1992
Inspector Faustão and the Vagabond
Faustão, a fruit seller, is selected by God himself to become Inspector Faustão, defender of the animals. He's joined by Sérgio Mallandro in a mission to save a group of quails from an illegal smuggler, while also having to deal with a bratty kid and a jealous girlfriend.Year:
1991
Barrela: Escola de Crimes
In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constant threat of sexual violence coming from the rest of the inmates.Year:
1990
Real Desejo
Year:
1990
Better Days Ahead
Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.Year:
1989
Elixir do Pajé
Three schoolgirls secretly read the erotic-comic poem Elixir do Pajé, by Bernardo Guimarães. First published in 1875, in Ouro Preto, the poem is an amusing monologue by a man with his (no longer) virile member.Year:
1989
Banana Split
In Petrópolis in the 1950s, the group of Nei, Cabelinho, Bambolê, Laura and Carminha is excited about the arrival of the cariocas, who symbolize the highest level of modernity.Year:
1988
Natal da Portela
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.Year:
1988
O Nervo de Prata
Year:
1987
Noite
Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a socialite. Without recognizing himself in the documents he carries in his pocket, he wanders through the underworlds of the city in search of an answer.Year:
1985
Um Filme 100% Brasileiro
French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemian parties during the celebration of carnaval.Year:
1985
L'Uomo Della Guerra Possibile
Following an accident, a physicist working on an antidote to the consequences of nuclear radiation is forced to continue his research at a laboratory owned by a mysterious western private corporation in a secret project.Year:
1984
Tensão no Rio
Year:
1984
Bar Esperanza
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.Year:
1983
Corações a Mil
University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and performances, while ultimately falling in love with one of his groupies.Year:
1983
Guerra Santa na Avenida
Year:
1983
Ao Sul do Meu Corpo
São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto (Paulo César Pereio) is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro (Nuno Leal Maia) he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena (Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva). Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reaching the site he is told by Helena that Alberto was forced to travel urgently. She insists he should stay there until the return of her husband and, while waiting, she seduces him. Then, after several days of intense passion, she orders Polidoro to go away and never see her again.Year:
1982
Rio Babilonia
A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.Year:
1982
The Secret of the Mummy
A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.Year:
1982
João Rosa
Year:
1982
Retrato Falado de Uma Mulher Sem Pudor
A model is found dead in the bathtub of her own mansion. A policeman tries to investigate, inquiring the rich and powerful men who knew her.Year:
1982
I Love You
After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.Year:
1981
Fruit of Love
Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and a prostitute from the country. But the affection grows between the three of them, and this feelings are capable of compromising the whole research.Year:
1981
República dos Assassinos
In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, symbol of the group, caused an uncomfortable indignation. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the policemen, who was part of the Homens de Aço (Steelmen) group, one of the factions in which the squadron was divided.Year:
1979
Os Mucker
In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population. They are immigrants from the German region and develop a communitary social model, having the Bible as a code of morals, faith and conduct. The group's economic independence ends up irritating the locals to the point of provoking successive aggressions that culminate in a bloody massacre.Year:
1979
Everything's Alright
Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.Year:
1978
O Bom Marido
An industrial couple spends more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Afraninho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign executives, in which the product is his own wife Malu. They succeed, and soon other couples start doing the same thing, establishing the competition.Year:
1978
Se Segura, Malandro!
Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.Year:
1978
The Lyre of Delight
During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she dives into Rio de Janeiro's underworld and meet all kind of criminals. She also goes back in time, to a past carnival, where she thinks she might pin-point the culprit among a group of people.Year:
1978
Daniel, Capanga de Deus
Year:
1978
Summer Showers
70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.Year:
1978
Lady on the Bus
Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.Year:
1978
As Loucuras de Um Sedutor
Year:
1977
Os Amores da Pantera
During an orgy of millionaires, a woman is mysteriously kidnapped and killed. The crime causes quite a stir in local society, as the investigations points to a very known addicted playboy. Although it's never said, the film is vaguely based on a real case happened in 1975, when socialite Ângela Diniz was killed by her lover Doca Street, in Búzios, Brazil.Year:
1977
Anchieta, José do Brasil
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.Year:
1977
Lucio Flavio
The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.Year:
1977
Vida, Vida
In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.Year:
1977
The Fall
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.Year:
1976
Bandalheira Infernal
Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. An essay on the oppression and dehumanization of the Brazilian people.Year:
1976
Gordos e Magros
After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.Year:
1976
Nem os Bruxos Escapam
Year:
1975
A Extorsão
Year:
1975
Iracema
A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.Year:
1975
A Cartomante
Year:
1975
Teatro Brasileiro: Novas Tendências
Year:
1975
As Aventuras Amorosas de um Padeiro
A newlywed woman, frustrated after her honeymoon, decides to search for lovers on the streets and ends up causing a conflict between her husband, a baker and a black artist.Year:
1975
Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança
Year:
1975
The Star Rises
A veteran popular singer remembers her early days before fame as a humble woman who faced many obstacles in order to achieve fame, notoriety and make her dreams come true. Her life, the songs, the men she knew and helped her on her ladder to success all have a big influence on her life.Year:
1974
Getúlio Vargas
Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.Year:
1974
Sagarana: O Duelo
Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.Year:
1974
Folias do Divino
Year:
1974
As Mulheres Que Fazem Diferente
Year:
1974
A Married Man's Report
Carlos, a married lawyer, gets involved with one of his clients. But the relationship turns into an obsession. The woman understands she'll never manage to separate Carlos from his wife, and decides to leave him, running away with another man.Year:
1974
Ecologia
This film denounces the exploitation of natural resources by certain industries of extraction and transformation. This documentary is considered as the first Brazilian film on this theme.Year:
1973
O Que Eu Vi, O Que Nós Veremos
The life of the brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont.Year:
1973
All Nudity Shall Be Punished
A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion.Year:
1973
Go To Work You Bum!
Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.Year:
1973
Megalopolis
An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.Year:
1973
Os Brasileiros e a Conquista do Ar
The first Brazilians who engaged in aviation, from Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão with his hot air balloon to Alberto Santos Dumont, giving Brazil a prominent place in aviation. The creation of the Military Air Mail (CAM) and the Brazilian aviation industry. Commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Santos Dumont. The house where Santos Dumont was born; Bartolomeu Gusmão (Santos - SP); small hot air balloon Júlio César Ribeiro de Souza; 1881: his Victory balloon flies in Paris; Augusto Ribeiro; Santos Dumont: the balloon in the Torre Eifel, the 14 bis, the 'Demoiselle': real scenes of the time. Edu Chaves flies the Rio-Buenos Aires route in the 1920s. Current era: manufacture of the Bandeirante (assembly line). President Médici flies in the first Bandeirante; Xavante and Ipanema, Universal, rego elo and other models manufactured by Embraer in São José dos Campos.Year:
1973
Enfoque - Sete Povos das Missões
The past of a region that grew on the foundations of the faith, through the catechesis of the Jesuits who formed the theocratic kingdom of the Guarani.Year:
1973
The Conspirators
The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.Year:
1972
O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.Year:
1971
Bang Bang
An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.Year:
1971
Gamal, O Delírio do Sexo
Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: “a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortures, circumstances and violent actions.”Year:
1970
Sagrada Família
Follows a rich family, composed of 4 people, during a trip in which they all start getting disposed of their material goods, personal histories, and maybe even their lives.Year:
1970
Paulicéia Fantástica
Documentary wich tries to capture the iconoclastic spirit of the 1922 Week of Modern Art, to tell about the beginning of cinema made in the city of São Paulo.Year:
1970
A Criação Literária de João Guimarães Rosa
Year:
1969
Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite
Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.Year:
1969
Journey to the End of the World
During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.Year:
1968
On Borrowed Time
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.Year:
1968
The Brave Warrior
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.Year:
1968
The Man Who Bought the World
In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape.Year:
1968
The Outsiders
Year:
1968
Entranced Earth
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.Year:
1967
The Guns
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.Year:
1964
