Screenplay: Leopoldo Serran

Direction Bruno Barreto

Cast Alan Arkin · Pedro Cardoso · Fernanda Torres · Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Synopsis Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American...

Direction Carlos Diegues

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

Direction Bruno Barreto

Cast Sônia Braga · José Wilker · Mauro Mendonça · Dinorah Brillanti

Synopsis In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her...

Direction Fábio Barreto

Cast Alexandre Paternost · Patrícia Pillar · Glória Pires · Bruno Campos

Synopsis The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new...

Direction Bruno Barreto

Cast Sônia Braga · Marcello Mastroianni · Antonio Cantafora · Paulo Goulart

Synopsis Gabriela was based on Jorge Armado's novel Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon, which also served as the source of a typically steamy Brazilian TV soap opera. Set in 1925 (when the novel was first published), the film stars Marcello Mastrioanni as...

Direction Arnaldo Jabor

Cast Sônia Braga · Paulo César Peréio · Vera Abelha · Regina Casé

Synopsis Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.

Direction Bruno Barreto

Cast Paulo Gracindo · Cristina Aché · Paulo Guarnieri · Ligia Diniz

Synopsis Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, Sandra, who he had thrown out of the family home when...

Direction Antonio Carlos da Fontoura

Cast Odete Lara · Carlo Mossy · Paulo Gracindo · Lícia Magna

Synopsis Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays...

Direction Roberto Pires

Cast Tarcísio Meira · Glória Menezes · Cláudio Marzo · Mário Brasini

Synopsis Couple of lovers want to steal the income of a popular soccer game, at Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.

Direction Arnaldo Jabor

Cast Fernanda Montenegro · Paulo Gracindo · Maria Sílvia · Zezé Motta

Synopsis Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.

Direction Sergio Bernardes Filho

Cast Raul Cortez · Marisa Urban · Nelson Xavier · Mário Lago

Synopsis While writing his new book a writer changes his life when he kills a hotshot and joins a guerilla force.

Direction Murilo Salles

Cast Paulo José · Marieta Severo · José De Abreu · Flávio Galvão

Synopsis Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is cheating on him with his business partner and best...

Direction Carlos Diegues

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

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

Direction Anselmo Duarte

Cast Francisco Di Franco · Elza De Castro · Newton Prado · Alvaro Alves Pereira

Direction Miguel Faria Jr.

Cast Tarcísio Meira · Sandra Bréa · Anselmo Vasconcelos · Silvia Bandeira

Synopsis A film that tells the story of a group of police officers that acts as a death squad in Rio de Janeiro in the 70s. This elite group was created by the state governor himself with the support of a...

Direction Fábio Barreto

Cast Letícia Spiller · Thiago Lacerda · Alexandre Paternost · Antônio Calloni

Synopsis In the 1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants to southern Brazil, starts to break with both the Catholic and Lutheran churches to preach body healing through soul cleansing. After having a divine vision and speaking with Jesus, she suddenly changes...

Direction Antônio Calmon

Cast André de Biase · Angelina Muniz · Zaira Zambelli · Paulo Villaça

Synopsis Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister.

Direction Carlos Diegues

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

Synopsis 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 is being looked after by the police.