Screenplay: Héctor Babenco

Direction Héctor Babenco

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

Plot The acclaimed director of 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' dramatizes the 1992 prisoner revolt and massacre at São Paulo's infamous Carandiru penitentiary. A tender, forceful, and personal film for Babenco...

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Fernando Ramos da Silva · Jorge Juliao · Gilberto Moura · Edilson Lino

Plot Before he became the darling of the American art house circuit with such films as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Ironweed" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord,"...

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Tom Berenger · John Lithgow · Daryl Hannah · Kathy Bates

Plot Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the...

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Gael García Bernal · Analía Couceyro · Moro Anghileri · Axel Pauls

Plot Rimini (Gael García Bernal) and his high-school sweetheart, Sofia (Analía Couceyro), are splitting up after twelve years of marriage. Rimini quickly finds a new love, but Sofia will not leave...

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Willem Dafoe · Maria Fernanda Cândido · Reynaldo Gianecchini · Selton Mello

Plot Diego is a film director very close to death, surrounded by people who are having trouble dealing with his current tempestuous mood. Chances are he won't survive, but if he...

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Miguel Ángel Solá · Maria Luísa Mendonça · Walter Quiroz · Xuxa Lopes

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Paulo José · Marilia Pêra · Vick Militello · Isadora de Farias

Plot In the 1940s, in São Paulo, bohemian guy engages in a love affair with two daughters of a friend of his mother's, but ends up marrying uncongenial woman, with whom...

Direction Héctor Babenco · Márcia Faria · Walter Carvalho

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

Plot 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...

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Reginaldo Faria · Ana Maria Magalhães · Milton Gonçalves · Paulo César Peréio

Plot Story of Brazilian bank-robber Lúcio Flávio, who fascinated some people in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s for his bold robberies and spectacular escapes, and also because he was thought...

Direction Héctor Babenco · Roberto Farias

Cast Emerson Fittipaldi · Juse Fittipaldi · Wilson Fittipaldi · Francisco Rosa

Plot About the Brazilian formula one racing driver Emerson Fittipaldi at the height of his popularity and the beginning of his career.