Stênio Garcia

Based on the true story of a woman who lived with her three husbands under the same roof in Ceara in northeastern Brazil. From this unusual situation, director Andrucha Waddington and screenwriter Elena Soarez created a fictitious plot that blends humor and passion and tells a story of an uncommon love quartet, led by Darlene, a strong intuitive woman full of the joy of living. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power. (imdb)

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear. (imdb)

The journalist Célio Rocha (Pedro Cardoso) has been living a serious problem in the breast of his family for years: his father used all his savings to buy an apartment from the father of his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia (Miguel Falabella), indeed a corrupt constructor who never delivered the building to the owners... (imdb)

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor and music. (imdb)

In this movie Maluquinho tells a story with his friends on another trip to his grandfather's house where they discover a creature of fire called Tatá and become its friends.

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell. (imdb)

The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life. (imdb)

A fairy-tale about life and feelings, seen from the eyes of a little girl, Maria (IMDB Comments)

Biography of the actress Leila Diniz, which irreverent way of life incited controversials in Brasil during the decades of 1960 and 1970. Leila, that suffered pursuits in brazilian military dictatorship period, was symbol of women liberation in the country, as well godness of the tropicalism moviment.

In 1910, in Maranhão, the insane Vasco de Sá moves with his pregnant urban wife Áurea and her mother Maria to a wilderness land near a lagoon and surrounded by shifting dunes. Sooner his workers abandon the place, and Vasco dies, leaving the two women alone and without any resources. They are supported by a local son of a former slave, Massu, and they learn how to survive creating goats. Along the years, Áurea raises her daughter Maria, hoping to move back to the capital someday. (imdb)

Editor of pornographic magazines gets into difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines, like Playboy. (imdb)

Compasso de Espera focuses on a black poet and advertising agent named Jorge. He publishes books of poetry -- Compasso de Espera is the title of one of his collections -- with the help of his sponsor, a white millionaire. Jorge feels sorry for her, but also resents his financial dependence on her.

In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados. (imdb)

Jane is to marry Rodrigo, but can not leave her other lovers, which include an older man and even the priest for the ceremony. Even after marriage, she has an intense love life. The situation worsens when he meets Peter, a former marketer with a career on the rise in the numbers game.

On a Sunday morning, four guys arrive in a small town in Minas gerais State. They do not know each other, but their four lives will cross and affect each other, and the town life itself (the Fifth Circus of the "Cinco" -5). They all have scores to settle, as does the town, in the form of the mysterious Helena. (imdb)

In the Brazilian 30s, a blacksmith is accused of his wife's death and becomes a hero and political leader. (imdb)

Dealing with religious fanaticism, long shows the conflict over land ownership of a country town, where farmers follow a mystical leader who would take them to the path of paradise. But fanaticism increases and the peasants no longer able to understand reality.

The quartet of coup plotters is back, but before they need to resolve some minor internal disagreements, since Marco has struck a blow at his best friend, Beto, who, desolate, stops at a psychiatric clinic. It is up to Laura and Nelson to help him out of the institution. (imdb)

Solano is often plagued by nightmares in which, during the Middle Ages, he is pursued by the hunter Faro, who intends to kill him. On discovering, in an antiquarian, a tapestry that represents a hunt and that reminds him of his dream, he tries to buy it, but the owner refuses to sell it.

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, o

In 1992, actress and dancer Daniella Perez was murdered by Guilherme de Pádua and his wife, Paula Thomaz, in a cruelly premeditated crime. The untimely death of the 22-year-old, daughter of Brazilian author and producer, International Emmy winner Gloria Perez, shocked the country, gained notoriety and occupied the front pages of national newspapers for years. (letterboxd.com)

A young man who has been secretly cloned by his godfather scientist falls in love with a Moroccan girl from a rigorous family. (imdb)