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Abdias Nascimento
In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by her butler and...
The Girl and the Rapist
Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with...
Giselle
Filmed in a mini DV, the film "República Tiradentes" is an affective poetry, based on the stories of gafieira dancers, actors, rascals, girls...
República Tiradentes
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Ganga Zumba
A documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the memory of part of the history of samba, which was being...
Samba no Trem
In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film...
Veja & Ouça - Maria Baderna no Brasil
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis...
In Evil Hour
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
The Suns of Easter Island
The making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations being spread all over the city and the hand-crafted...
Artesanato do Samba
A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.
Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
João Grilo is a backwoodsman who tries to get along at the expense of the powerful in the city, who pretend to be respectful of morals and...
Our Lady Of Compassion
Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.
Parceiros da Aventura
Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black...
Compasso de Espera
In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
Daughters of the Wind
Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye marks the beginning of Black...
Soul in the Eye
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Cinco Vezes Favela
Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes. After Diadorim's father is killed, she...
Grande Sertão
O Engano
A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
The Naked Man
In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for...
Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz
A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the...
El Justicero
Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.
Sagarana: O Duelo
Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for...
Garden of War
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the...
Entranced Earth
The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking...
5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
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...
A Guerra dos Pelados
Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace...
The Palace of Angels
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of...
Natal da Portela
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty...
The Forest
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...
Quilombo
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Memória Viva
Queima de Arquivo
After the proclamation of the Republic, a group of fanatics in the sertão dreamed of and fought for the restoration of the Monarchy. At that...
The Godless Bandit
Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The slope is blown up, advancing to the land near...
Pedreira de São Diogo
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties...
The Girl from Ipanema
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine...
Black Goddess
A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smuggling, hijacking ships at night. She...
Hung Up
In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade"...
True Brazil
Oswaldo Cruz, o Médico do Brasil
Baby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a fishing village and gives up religious life when she falls...
Pureza Proibida
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will...
República da Traição
The film, shot in Dakar, Senegal, has testimonials from intellectuals, politicians and religious, who present an overview of the 50 years of...
Renascimento Africano
The African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of communication, the guard of the streets and...
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
The film narrates the imaginary encounter between João Cândido, leader of Revolta da Chibata and a paper picker and writer Carolina...
Paper and Sea
O homem que sabia javanês
Ana, a Libertina
A drama in the amazonian country.
Brutos Inocentes
During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo...
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