Brazilian cinema

Il viaggio emotivo di una ex insegnante di scuola, che scrive lettere per analfabeti, e di un ragazzo, la cui madre è appena morta, alla ricerca del padre che non ha mai conosciuto.

In un fittizio paese dell'America Latina chiamato Eldorado, un poeta prova a portare un cambiamento politico, tentando di influenzare uomini importanti.

Dopo aver ucciso il suo datore di lavoro quando quest'ultimo cerca di truffarlo dalla sua paga, un uomo diventa un fuorilegge e inizia a seguire un autoproclamato santo.

La vita di un ragazzo per le strade di San Paolo, coinvolto in crimini, prostituzione e droga.

Nelle favelas di Rio de Janeiro, i percorsi di due giovani amici divergono quando uno sogna di diventare un fotoreporter e l'altro un re del crimine.

Nel 1997 a Rio de Janeiro, il capitano Nascimento deve trovare un sostituto alla sua posizione mentre cerca di eliminare spacciatori e criminali prima della visita del Papa.

Il capitano Roberto Nascimento viene promosso a capo dell'intelligence militare, mentre l'ufficiale Matias lo sostituisce al comando del BOPE, la squadra speciale che opera nel difficile scenario delle favelas brasiliane.

Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.

A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?

Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.

A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along the way, are interspersed.

Four Third-World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rocha's experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder.

In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás and, in spite of his trial to convince them that he is French, they believe he is Portuguese. The Frenchman becomes their slave, and maritally lives with Seboipepe (Ana Maria Magalhães). *Contains Spoilers* Later, he uses powder in the cannons that the Portuguese left behind to defeat the Tupiniquins in a battle. In order to celebrate the victory, the Indians decide to eat him.

On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.

Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.

Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...

In order to get funds, a young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body.

The Story of the workers who had participated of the striker movement in the Brazil with President Lula when he was a syndical leader

In 1942, two men from different worlds meet in the Northeastern backlands in Brazil. Johann is a German fleeing the war, who travels through the cities selling aspirin. Ranulpho is a backwoodsman fleeing the hard life in search of a dream.

The story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.

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

This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as planned.

Un uomo omosessuale e un prigioniero politico sono insieme in una prigione. L'uomo gay racconta le storie di due film falsi e della propria vita.