Soundtrack: John Neschling

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 William Hurt · Raul Julia · Sônia Braga · José Lewgoy

Plot Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape...

Direction Tizuka Yamasaki

Cast Kyoko Tsukamoto · Antonio Fagundes · Jiro Kawarazaki · Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Plot Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.

Direction Alain Fresnot

Cast Simone Spoladore · Osmar Prado · Caco Ciocler · Berta Zemel

Plot The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.

Direction Braz Chediak

Cast Lucélia Santos · José Wilker · Vera Fischer · Carlos Kroeber

Plot A rich man wants to pay one of his employees a lot of money to marry his daughter, who has been raped by five men. But something in the girl's...

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...