Screenplay: Carlos Diegues

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast José Wilker · Betty Faria · Fábio Júnior · Zaira Zambelli

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Toni Garrido · Patrícia França · Murilo Benício · Zezé Motta

Plot In a dangerous but human Rio de Janiro's slum, rises the love affair between Orfeu, a famous composer, and Eurídice, a simple but pretty brunette, provoking jealousy and violence in...

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Sônia Braga · Claudia Abreu · Zezé Motta · Marilia Pêra

Plot Sant'Ana do Agreste, a small village in the Bahia region, is bubbling with anticipation as it prepares to welcome back Tieta (Sonia Braga), a country girl returning to her native...

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Antonio Fagundes · Wagner Moura · Paloma Duarte · Bruce Gomlevsky

Plot God is getting tired. So he looks for a saint to take his place for a while.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Joffre Soares · Miriam Pires · Cristina Aché · Roberto Bonfim

Plot 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.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Chico Buarque de Hollanda · Nara Leão · María Bethânia · Hugo Carvana

Plot Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds it isn't an easy task.

Direction Miguel Borges · Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · Carlos Diegues · Marcos Farias

Cast Flávio Migliaccio · Haroldo de Oliveira · Milton Gonçalves · Abdias do Nascimento

Plot Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Jesuíta Barbosa · Bruna Linzmeyer · Rafael Lozano · Catherine Mouchet

Plot Follows a century in the lives of the Knieps, an Austrian family of circus owners.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Jonas Bloch · Zózimo Bulbul · Emmanuel Cavalcanti · Arduino Colasanti

Plot Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the...

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Zezé Motta · Walmor Chagas · Altair Lima · Elke Maravilha

Plot The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributs" in order to get power.

Direction Carlos Diegues · Tereza Gonzalez

Cast Guilherme Fontes · Milton Gonçalves · Taumaturgo Ferreira · Ana Beatriz Wiltgen

Plot The young Vinicius is a young saxophone player, from Rio's poor suburbs, facing an uncertain but perhaps promising future.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Antonio Pitanga · Lea Garcia · Eliezer Gomes · Luiza Maranhão

Plot The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Marilia Pêra · Paulo José · Zezé Motta · José Wilker

Plot In a Brazilian studio, where an American TV series is being dubbed to Portuguese, the middle-age Mary Matos dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. Her needy sentimental life is very...

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Sergio Cardoso · Odete Lara · Mário Lago · Paulo Porto

Plot An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast José Wilker · Taís Araújo · Sérgio Britto · Lea Garcia

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Leonardo Villar · Anecy Rocha · Antonio Pitanga · Joel Barcellos

Plot Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and...

Direction Fábio Barreto

Cast Claudia Ohana · José De Abreu · Thales Pan Chacon · Luiza Falcão

Plot In Brazil's northeast, marauders from a big ranch raid a tannery and kill a girl's parents. Fifteen years later, the girl, Luzia, is a talented vacera who shows up at...