Paulo José

The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people. (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)

Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation. (imdb)

Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born full grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family/followers on a journey to the Big City. On the way, more miracles occur, but Macunaima still has the heart and mind of a child. In the Big City, he is co-opted by terrorists who enlist him in their revolutionary schemes. In the Big City he learns that nuts are not always food and other hilarious lessons of life. (imdb)

Couple prepare their "great voyage" in all details, not forgetting the flowers, music and luggage. (imdb)

Covering the spectrum of love between a man and woman. (Yahoo! Movies)

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

A small community of descendants of Italian immigrants in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul resorts to making a video to try to solve the problems of basic sanitation that plague their village. (imdb)

Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that kind of film. (imdb)

A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings. (imdb)

Womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man. (imdb)

Brazil's history during the 20th Century serves as a background to Luiz Carlos Prestes's curious course. The Knight of Hope, as he was known, took part in the epic march of rebellious soldiers in the '20s, when he could testify Brazilian people's misery. After that, he became a communist and started to fight for more justice in his country. (imdb)

A young man in his early 30's ponders the state of his life while dealing with three women - his sister, his new girlfriend and his lover. (imdb)

Three friends are re in the house of one of them, recall cases where the past and have fun.

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. (imdb)

Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star. (imdb)

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.

For 20 years, a small population of the upper Amazon has celebrated the Feast of the Dead Girl. The event celebrates the miracle performed by Santinho, related to a missing girl. The girl was never found, but the fabric torn and stained with blood is to be worshiped and considered sacred. The festival has grown indifferent to the pain of the dead girl's brother, Thaddeus...

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom. (imdb)

In Rio de Janeiro, Cassy Jones is a successful seducer, having sex with many women. He becomes tired of this situation, and decides to find the woman of his life. When he sees the young Clara in a TV shows, he falls in love for her. But sooner, he becomes disappointed with their relationship, and leaves Clara. He misses her, while she follows the career of star in the show business with his former friend Rouboult. (imdb)

Love adventures of a young man living in Rio de Janeiro, in the '60s, refusing to accept the establishment. (imdb)

The Brazilian Faca de Dois Gumes stars Paulo Jose as a cuckolded husband. When he can stand no more humiliation, Jose kills both his wife and her lover. It is to be expected that Jose would run afoul of the law for this act of violence. But what Jose never suspected was that the man he killed had criminal connections, meaning that now he's been targeted by the crooks as well. (All Movie Guide)

Life and work of Luiz Sérgio Person. The film reconstitute the filmmaker's history by the point of view of his daughter, Marina Person.

In the 1940s, in São Paulo, bohemian guy engages in a love affair with two daughters of a friend of his mother's, but ends up marrying uncongenial woman, with whom he quarrels all the time. (imdb)

Five stories by Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa: in the hinterland of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a man fears for his life after having killed one of the dire Brothers Dagobé, outlaws who have great influence over the region; a hitman asks a doctor what's the meaning of a name he has heard; in a farm, the landowner decides to share the use and property of the estate among his employees; a man falls in love with a girl, but she's said to have a dreadful disease; and the local butcher spend (imdb)

Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.

Tells stories of unrequited love. "Love and Loss. Loss, mostly", says a character. In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. (imdb)

A music teacher gets locked outside of a friend's apartment, completely naked.

Rodrigo and Suzana have started a relationship recently. He's seventy-two, she's sixty, and they are completely in love with each other. Together, they spend days in bed, talking, eating, laughing and making love. (imdb)

Benjamim and Valdemar are a team of clowns, but Benjamim believes he is no longer funny, and so he leaves to follow his dreams.

Eight shorts in Rio de Janeiro made by six directors. (imdb)

A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family. (imdb)

On the porch of a farm, a lady tells stories while cutting and sewing fabric scraps, creating images that make up a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The wedding fisherman with Iara, the siren of rivers. The altar of a church that sees the procession of souls. The encounter between a shop's Santa Claus and a street boy and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, naive guy who always gets carried away by others.

Five sketches, with a kind of humor typical of people who live in Rio de Janeiro. (imdb)

The adventures of two surfers, Juba and Lula, living in the same apartment with their shared girlfriend Zelda Scott, a journalist who admired Simone de Beauvoir and had a neurotic boss, editor of the newspaper "Correio do Crepúsculo". Her best friend was the plump Ronalda Cristalda. Besides, she was the daughter of political refugees, and couldn't make up her mind about which boy she would commit herself to. (imdb)

A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.

The creation of Babel scatters over the world men who speak different languages: all the faces, bodies and voices of Paulo José are embodied in the characters that the actor has played throughout his career in theater, television, and film. EVERY PAULO IN THE WORLD is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.