Screenplay: Héctor Babenco

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 Héctor Babenco

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

Synopsis 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," director Hector Babenco was making equally impressive films in his...

Direction Héctor Babenco

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

Synopsis 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 natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous...

Direction Héctor Babenco

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

Synopsis 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 Rimini alone. Her insistent meddling destroys every new relationship Rimini...

Direction Héctor Babenco

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

Synopsis 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 does, that means he needs to relearn how to live.

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

Synopsis 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 he quarrels all the time.

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 Héctor Babenco

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

Synopsis 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 to be intelligent and "politically aware". Before dying, he disclosed...

Direction Héctor Babenco · Roberto Farias

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

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