Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos · Milton Gonçalves · Ivan de Almeida · Ailton Graça

Synopsis In Carandiru (2003), a compassionate doctor arrives at São Paulo's notorious Carandiru prison to combat an HIV outbreak. Through his interactions with inmates, he uncovers their diverse, often tragic backstories, revealing humanity amidst brutality. The film paints a raw, empathetic...

Direction Wagner Moura

Cast Seu Jorge · Adriana Esteves · Bruno Gagliasso · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Synopsis Marighella is a biographical film about Carlos Marighella, a Marxist Brazilian writer, politician and guerilla fighter who lived during the 20th century and was murdered by the brazilian military dictatorship in 1969. The film is an adaptation of the book...

Direction Walter Salles

Cast Rodrigo Santoro · José Dumont · Rita Assemany · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Synopsis When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.

Direction Walter Salles · Daniela Thomas

Cast Fernanda Torres · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos · Matheus Nachtergaele · Nelson Sargento

Synopsis At midnight of December 31st of 1999, the destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the fireworks fall over Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach and the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone. An...

Direction Andrucha Waddington

Cast Regina Casé · Lima Duarte · Stênio Garcia · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Synopsis Darlene, earthy and unmarried, returns to the cane fields of Bahia with her young son. There, over time, she balances the pride, desire, jealousy, and tolerance of three men. Osias, an older man, proud of a house he's built, proposes...

Direction María Alché

Cast Mercedes Morán · Marcelo Subiotto · Esteban Bigliardi · Diego Velázquez

Synopsis Marcela’s world becomes strange and unfamiliar after her sister Rina dies. She feels lost in her own house, and her relationship with her husband and children seems to suffer. Nacho, a young friend of her daughter’s, unexpectedly calls round at...

Direction Sandra Kogut

Cast Thiago da Silva Mariz · Wallison Felipe Leal · João Miguel · Izadora Fernandes

Synopsis Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see...

Direction Rogério Gomes · Roberta Richard · Luciana de Oliveira · Luciana Oliveira

Cast Paola Oliveira · Alinne Moraes · Rafael Cardoso · Felipe Camargo

Synopsis The story of a group of people involved with one another through love or hate; their stories continue in other lives in another century. It is a spiritual view of reincarnation.

Direction Paulo Caldas · Lírio Ferreira

Cast Duda Mamberti · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos · Aramis Trindade · Chico Díaz

Synopsis A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.

Direction Teresa Lampréia · Jayme Monjardim · Leonardo Nogueira · Marcelo Travesso

Cast Grazielli Massafera · Henri Castelli · Daniela Escobar · Igor Rickli

Direction Haroldo Borges · Ernesto Molinero

Cast João Pedro Dias · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos · Vinicius Bustani

Synopsis João is 12 and he lives with his father, isolated, in the middle of the dry outbacks in Bahia, an area harshly punished by the drought. His father is a severe and authoritarian cowboy. João’ greatest wish is to run...

Direction Lírio Ferreira

Cast Guilherme Weber · Giulia Gam · José Dumont · Mariana Lima

Synopsis 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.

Direction Vicente Amorim

Cast Regina Braga · Bianca Comparato · Sophia Pereira Brachmans · Gracindo Júnior

Synopsis The life of Dulce, a Bahian nun, who guided by her faith dedicated her life to the needy and was beatified by the Vatican.

Direction José Luiz Villamarin

Cast Adriana Esteves · Antônio Calloni · Camila Márdila · Cássio Gabus Mendes

Synopsis In four different stories, ordinary people of tragic backgrounds search for justice.

Direction Estela Renner · Lucio Tavares · André Felipe Binder · Mariana Richard

Cast Débora Falabella · Taís Araújo · Leandra Leal · Thainá Duarte

Synopsis Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.

Direction Héctor Babenco · Márcia Faria · Walter Carvalho

Cast Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos · Ivan de Almeida · Ailton Graça · Antônio Grassi

Synopsis A doctor volunteers to carry out AIDS prevention work at the largest prison in Latin America, Carandiru, in São Paulo. There he lives with reality behind the bars, which includes violence, overcrowding of cells and poor facilities. But despite all...

Direction Odécio Antonio

Cast Ian Guedes · Giulina Maria · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos · Theo Koffmann

Synopsis Amid the imminent loss of his uncle, João does not understand what is happening in his family. The passage of pre-adolescence and the mystery that is hidden from him ends up revealed in a dream.

Direction Teresa Lampréia · Fabrício Mamberti · Jayme Monjardim · Leonardo Nogueira

Cast Marjorie Estiano · Fernanda Vasconcellos · Rafael Cardoso · Thiago Lacerda

Synopsis The Life We Lead is a TV soup opera about the story of two sisters, Ana (Fernanda Vasconcellos) and Manuela (Marjorie Estiano). The telenovela is about the love triangle between Ana, Rodrigo (Rafael Cardoso) and Manuela, and family dramas lived...