Brazilian Academy Award Winner Movies (Best Picture)

Suellen, a toll booth attendant, uses her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches so that she can afford to send her son to a gay conversion workshop.

Una famiglia della classe medio-bassa attraversa una serie di cambiamenti impegnativi e profondi, reinventando se stessa e i suoi legami familiari lungo la strada.

Di fronte a una violenta dittatura militare e all'opposizione intimidita, Carlos Marighella, scrittore ora politico, si unisce alla resistenza per estromettere gli atroci crimini di tortura e la famigerata censura istituita dal regime.

Justino, a 45-year-old Desana native, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino is taken over by a mysterious fever.

Bacurau, una piccola città del nord del Brasile, piange la perdita della sua matriarca Carmelita che visse fino a novantaquattro anni. Alcuni giorni dopo, i residenti notano che la loro comunità è scomparsa dalla maggior parte delle mappe.

Irene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.

When Augusto Mendes gets the role of Bingo, he goes through dilemmas such as the fact that he is an anonymous celebrity and that he can't reconcile his work and his family.

Clara, 65 anni, vive la vita al massimo con la sua famiglia e i suoi amici. Una società di costruzioni vuole il suo condominio di fronte all'oceano a Recife, hanno già acquistato tutti gli altri nell'edificio di tre piani. Clara resta.

Quando improvvisamente appare la figlia estranea di una lavoratrice domestica, le barriere di classe porteranno la casa nel caos.

A journey to the dark cutting edge of desires, lies and wickedness of a love triangle, from the moment a child is mysteriously kidnapped.

João do Santo Cristo leaves his hometown and moves to Brasília in search of a better life. There, he encounters misery and crime, but also discovers love in the arms of Maria Lúcia.

The story of Brazilian popular singer Luiz Gonzaga and his son Gonzaguinha.

Father and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the way.

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.

In São Paulo, the lonely forty and something year-old guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment and is addicted in her only companion, the cigarettes. She has a constant friction with her two sisters, the executive Pop and the housewife Teca, because of the inheritance of the couch of their deceased Aunt Dinah. When the musician of a barbecue place Max moves to the next-door apartment, Baby has a crush on him. Sooner they have a love affair and Baby quits smoking with the support of a fellowship. However the insecure Baby feels jealous with the relationship of Max with his former woman Estelinha that keeps stalking him. One night, Baby follows Estelinha and when she leaves the building, Baby accidentally hits her; the hit-and-run Baby calls 911 but Estelinha dies. When the doorman Chico watches the tape of the surveillance camera, he hides the VHS tape from the police. Meanwhile Max moves to Baby's apartment and she lives a conflictive situation.

Nel grande ristorante della vita c'è chi mangia e chi si fa mangiare.

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.

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 life and times of Cazuza, Brazilian singer/poet/enfant terrible, from his start with rock group "Barão Vermelho", to his death from Aids, in 1990, showing his career, love affairs, and involvement with drugs.

A Brazilian photocopier operator falls in love with a girl who lives in an opposite house and spends his evenings looking at her through his binoculars.

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.

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.

A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.

In a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.