Topic: Cinema Novo

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Átila Iório · Nelson Xavier · Maria Gladys · Leonidas Bayer

Synopsis In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Átila Iório · Maria Ribeiro · Orlando Macedo · Joffre Soares

Direction Glauber Rocha

Cast Antonio Pitanga · Luiza Maranhão · Lucy de Carvalho · Aldo Teixeira

Direction Glauber Rocha

Cast Geraldo Del Rey · Yoná Magalhães · Othon Bastos · Maurício do Valle

Synopsis Fictionalized account of the adventures of hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism. The movie follows Antonio as he witnesses the descent of common rural worker Manuel into a life of crime,...

Direction Glauber Rocha

Cast Jardel Filho · Paulo Autran · José Lewgoy · Glauce Rocha

Synopsis In the hypothetical Latin-American country of Eldorado, the idealistic and anarchist poet and journalist Paulo Martins (Jardel Filho) fights against the populist governor, Felipe Vieira (José Lewgoy), and the conservative president Porfirio Diaz (Paulo Autran), supported by revolutionary forces. Paulo...

Direction Glauber Rocha

Cast Maurício do Valle · Odete Lara · Othon Bastos · Hugo Carvana

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Arduino Colasanti · Ana Maria Magalhães · José Kleber · Gabriel Atcanjo

Synopsis In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portugueses. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them...

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Jece Valadão · Daniel Filho · Norma Bengell · Per Aabel

Direction Rogério Sganzerla

Cast Helena Ignez · Paulo Villaça · Pagano Sobrinho · Luiz Linhares

Synopsis The story of a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he also used to rape his female victims.

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Grande Otélo · Paulo José · Jardel Filho · Dina Sfat

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Norma Bengell · Othon Bastos · Ítala Nandi · Nelson Xavier

Synopsis In the 1930's, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who had already been shot 7 times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations

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

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

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

Direction Paulo Cesar Saraceni

Cast Isabella · Joel Barcellos · María Bethânia · Sérgio Britto

Synopsis Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son.

Direction Gustavo Dahl

Cast Paulo César Peréio · Mário Lago · Ítalo Rossi · Maria Lúcia Dahl

Synopsis Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government, so he slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.

Direction Arnaldo Jabor

Cast Maurício do Valle · Ítala Nandi · Jesus Pingo · Hugo Carvana

Synopsis In the Sixteenth Century, in Brazil, the founder of Pindorama realizes that nobody works in the anarchic village. When the king arrives in town, there is a fight for power among the governor and politicians while the alienated people composed...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Arduino Colasanti · Manfredo Colasanti · Olga Danitch · Neville de Almeida

Synopsis Alfredo, a former revolutionary who is blind, deaf and mute, and his hedonistic wife are visited in their seaside house by another couple, just arriving from New York: a frustrated pianist and her husband, an ex-waiter of dubious character.

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 José Hipolito Trigueirinho Neto

Cast Lola Brah · Sadi Cabral · Francisco Contreras · Maria Lúcia Dahl

Synopsis Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a conflict between strikers and the police. His mistress tries to keep him from his companions, but he steals her belongings to help the persecuted. Dissatisfied,...