The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker. Read More »
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House of Sand / Casa de Areia (2005) Andrucha Waddington, Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra
Áurea arrives at a town in the dunes of State of Maranhão, Brazil, in 1910, having Read More »
Case of the Naves Brothers / O Caso dos Irmãos Naves (1967) Luiz Sérgio Person, Anselmo Duarte, Raul Cortez, Juca de Oliveira
The innocent brothers are wrongly accused of a crime by a corrupt Read More »
Of Gods and the Undead / Os Deuses e Os Mortos (1970) Ruy Guerra, Norma Bengell, Othon Bastos, Ítala Nandi
In the 1930’s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history Read More »
Men and Women / Noite Vazia (1964) Walter Hugo Khouri, Norma Bengell, Odete Lara, Mário Benvenutti
Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved Read More »
Brave New Land / Brava Gente Brasileira (2000) Lúcia Murat, Diogo Infante, Floriano Peixoto, Luciana Rigueira
Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. Read More »
Conjugal Warfare / Guerra Conjugal (1974) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Lima Duarte, Joffre Soares, Carmem Silva
Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other Read More »
Playing / Jogo de Cena (2007) Eduardo Coutinho, Marília Pêra, Andrea Beltrão, Fernanda Torres
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho Read More »
Rough Gang / Ganga Bruta (1933) Humberto Mauro
A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. Read More »
Cat’s Cradle / Cama de Gato (2012) João Miller Guerra, Filipa Reis, Joana Santos
We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal Read More »