Soundtrack: Antonio Carlos Jobim

Direction Marcel Camus

Cast Breno Mello · Marpessa Dawn · Lourdes de Oliveira · Jorge dos Santos

Plot Academy Award Winner and winner of the palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the madness of...

Direction Bruno Barreto

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

Plot 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...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Charles Aznavour · Alan Badel · Candice Bergen · Thommy Berggren

Plot The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his...

Direction Nicolas Keppens

Cast Victor Polster · Rick Verheye

Plot Jason dreams of having his own mountain bike. If he could find the splendid parrots that recently escaped from their cage at the Chinese restaurant he might be able to...

Direction Paulo Cesar Saraceni

Cast Rubens Araújo · Norma Bengell · Nelson Dantas · Joseph Guerreiro

Plot Newly wed arrives at her husband's family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law's room, who is...

Direction Paulo Thiago

Cast Joel Barcellos · Milton Moraes · Ítala Nandi · Rodolfo Arena

Plot In Northeast Brazil, after carrying out some comissioned killing, hitman returns home to find his wife involved with a man who is a hitman hunter. A conflict ensues.

Direction Paulo Cesar Saraceni

Cast Irma Álvarez · Henrique Bello · Reginaldo Faria · Joseph Guerreiro

Plot Irma can only think about getting rid of her cowardly dirty husband. She seeks out lovers not to commit adultery or for pleasure, but to find an accomplice to kill...

Direction Frederico Mayrink · Teresa Lampréia · Fabrício Mamberti · Jayme Monjardim

Cast Regina Duarte · Lília Cabral · Ana Paola Arósio · José Mayer

Direction León Hirszman

Cast Márcia Rodrigues · Adriano Reys · Arduino Colasanti · Irene Stefânia

Plot Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians,...

Direction Sergio Bianchi

Cast Umberto Magnani · Cecil Thiré · Dira Paes · Betty Gofman

Plot Dissection of Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political and sociological theses.