Betty Faria

In 2017, a region of Portugal is ravaged by gigantic fires that are sweeping away entire forests... and lives. A few months later, a small group of survivors —a little girl Justa and her burned father, an old woman who has become blind, a teenager — try as best they can to rebuild their lives. (allociné)

Two animal road corpse removers end up finding a dead woman and decide to collect her body clandestinely.

Depicts the moral values of Rio de Janeiro's middle class in the 1950s as Lurdinha and Marcos fall in love at first sight, but her parents don't approve of the boy because his parents are divorced. They are very conservative and try to keep the young couple apart at any cost. Unable to defend her love for Marcos, she keeps her love affair a secret.

A Brazilian Theater group that through talent, irony and humor confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970's revolutionizing the gay movement worldwide and changing theater and dance language to an entire generation. (imdb)

n an old-time dance hall (the "gafieira") in São Paulo, one evening is all it takes to meet different characters as they remember the past, live the present, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, naturally, dance. (imdb)

Documentary telling the story of short-lived newspaper "O Sol", an alternative press item which hit the streets during the repressive years of military dictatorship in Brazil, more precisely in 1968. Created by poet Reynaldo Jardim, it had important collaborators in Brazilian cultural scene. (imdb)

In Sao Paulo, the betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After his girlfriend's consequent suicide, his illegitimate son, a 17 year old, is kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. To protect the operation, the Senator chooses a former mistress in her late 50s, to take care of the boy during his secret captivity... (imdb)

The story of two couples who are neighbors and the marital problems caused by the unexpected arrival of two important personages of their past... (imdb)

During the Second World War, the U.S.A. established a military base in Natal, Brazil, changing in many ways people's lives and behavior. (imdb)

Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub. (imdb)

When her husband dies, Lili asks Guerreiro if she can join his gang of bank robbers. She soon gains notoriety in the press but is relentlessly pursued by an honest police officer. (imdb)

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems. (imdb)

Based on the work of Jorge Amado, the film narrates the interrracial love between a rich daughter of a commander and Antonio Balduíno, a black orphan of mount Capa-Negro, in Salvador, protected by the sorcerer Jubiabá.

Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land (imdb)

Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarreling, only to be reconciled moments later. (imdb)

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along... (imdb)

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for. (imdb)

The classic novel from Brazilian Literature is brought to screen.

Leniza was a famous singer of the past, and is now part of the jury of a talent show television. She remembers all his artistic career, since he was a humble seller of a pharmaceutical company who dreamed of fame on radio's heyday.

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

Alfred is a rich womanizer. All that glamor is at risk when the young man begins to receive threatening anonymous letters. Increasingly taken by insecurity, he decides to hire a private detective, but the answer to this mystery is far from obvious.

An existentialist drama that narrates one night in the life of a couple formed by an architect and university professor who has just left his job and a modern married woman, interested in a casual love affair. (imdb)

Architect sees his own life crumble when, after being run down, a dying man asks for a last wish: a French kiss. He obliges out of compassion, but people don't understand his gesture, and soon he becomes the talk of the town (imdb)