Movies

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of...

An elderly couple, Dona Lu and Seu Souza, live in the district of Paty do Alferes, in a simple little house where they raised their children. When...

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...

Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.

As revenge against the big landowner who killed his brother, a convict escapes and rapts the man's daughter.

In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer,...

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness.

A young girl, seeking to unravel the mystery of her father's death, travels through the Amazon jungle into a nightmare of danger.

Joviano is about to get married, but he has to give up his marriage to avenge the death of his father, murdered by Colonel Eufrásio. The...

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.

After robbing and massacring a village, the head of a gang of bandits, Captain Jagunço, kidnaps Flô, Mayor Cisso's wife and tortures her.

Paulo, an engineer, adopts shoe-shining teenage boy Darci, and slowly realizes he has more than just paternal feelings for him. Many twists follow,...

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues...

Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his...