Nelson Xavier

In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways, and annuls the marriage when he finds her in bed with his friend Tonico. The political ways of the town modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress. (imdb)

Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation? (imdb)

Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator. (imdb)

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp decides to cheat a false millionaire, who only appears to be rich. (imdb)

Two brothers kill their father, helped by their sister's fiancé. (imdb)

In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the homosexual drug dealer lord Rainha Diaba (Milton Gonçalves) decides to find a scapegoat to save his lover from the jail for traffic with students. His gang, under the command of Catitu (Nelson Xavier), uses the young pimp Bereco (Stepan Nercessian), but he escapes from the police siege and decides to break and rob the points where Rainha Diaba sells his marijuana, initiating a bloody war against the powerful dealer. (imdb)

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 money to gamble. One day he dies... (imdb)

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.

The illiterate population of the small town of Javé charge Antônio Biá with the mission of writing the story of the town.

Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room. (imdb)

Woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand. (imdb)

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

The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen. (imdb)

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story. (imdb)

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways. (imdb)

The film narrates the story of Francisco Candido Xavier (Chico Xavier). He is a respected spiritual medium that has spirit wrote more that 400 books and has given all the profits to charity. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Chico Xavier was elected in 2002 one of the most important Brazilians of the 20th century. He died at 92 years of age and left behind a great number of followers and admirers. (imdb)

It tells the story of a magician that travels with his beautiful assistant through small towns in Brazil. The movie is about his own transformation from a sophisticated thief to a prisoner with social concerns. He is a master of illusion. In one town he creates the illusion of abundance which is the opposite of the real situation. He is thrown in prison by the local police chief (the delegado). (imdb)

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. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.

The film focuses on subway construction workers, with the story revolving around the death of a worker due to lack of job security. The contractor responsible tries to bribe a widow, but the problem is taken up by a companion of the victim. From there unfolds a series of relationships between contractors and workers. (meucinemabrasileiro.com)

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals. (imdb)

Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.

During the President of Valdivia's official visit to Brazil, Minister of Energy dies in a terrorist action, and the President suffers a heart attack. A diplomat tries to minimize the scandal, since the press starts writing about the First Lady and the President's mistress. (imdb)

Bububu no Bobobó shows the decline of the brazilian "Teatro de Revista" in te middle of the 20th century.

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations. (imdb)

Zulmira is an old mistress. One day, she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she needs is a good coffin. (imdb)

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer. (imdb)

In the 20's, in the State of Piauí, Brazil, a young cowboy is used politically after killing his wife, who had been seduced by her boss and his son. (imdb)

1950's. A bank manager lives embarrasing people due to his fetish for biting the hands of women. Based on the eponymous short story by Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

A severe episode of contamination by radioactivity occurred in Brazil. The contamination began on September 13, 1987, when a device used in radiotherapy of the premises of an abandoned hospital was found in the central part of Goiânia. The instrument irresponsibly left, was found by scavengers in a junkyard site, they understood that it was junk.

Sugarcane mill is modernized by the owner's son, opposing his father's wishes. He is sent to study in a big city and, when Governor João Pessoa dies, he comes back to his hometown and his loved one, Soledade, trying to start a revolution in the sugarcane fields. But his father also loves Soledade, and they have to compete for her love. (imdb)

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. (imdb)

A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover who is 55 years younger than him. (imdb)

A tragedy happens when a cruel farmer forces his son to kill his best friend, son of a rival farmer's, in ambush. The crime brings about serious consequences for the two families, involved in a land dispute in Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state. (imdb)

Severino de Quixadá, goatherd, saved Captain and his gang of outlaws an ambush of Lt. Bezerra. In the confusion, friends Mussum and Zacarias escape from jail and all are in the cache of outlaws where Hawk's chief henchman. Noting their similarity to Severino, Captain gives you a mission, which turns out to be an ambush. With the help of Annie, the mayor's niece, manage to escape and on the way, encounter a mysterious witch-fairy.

Carlos is fat, one wealthy family of fellow, but sad for rejection because of their weight. It is when he meets Sakhan fakir, a thin man, who struggle to live and left the northeast of Brazil to the big city.

Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. (imdb)

Three mothers see their reality become completely ... They are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it. (imdb)

Amador is a retired gunfighter. Lonely and embittered, collects in an album newspapers of his crimes. After several humiliations, will he react with violence to the hostility of the world around.

Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed.