Grande Otelo

After the success of the first Brazilian space mission, a scientist intends to accomplish an even more audacious feat. His goal is to launch into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronald Golias

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Klaus Kinski

When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Elke Maravilha

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joel Barcellos

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tarcísio Meira

In Buenos Aires, Frederico hides in a ship going to Rio de Janeiro to travel for free. But Azulão, the cook, finds him and blackmails him into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geraldo Rosa

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manuel "Jacaré" Olimpio Meira

Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cyll Farney

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck",...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grande Otelo

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gays, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Gladys

A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orson Welles

"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dercy Gonçalves

A street vendor and a servant theater, newly unemployed, accidentally swap their briefcases trinkets for one of three bandits who just rob a bank....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aguinaldo Camargo

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Gonçalves

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arrigo Barnabé

The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Huston

Young man participates in TV contests to help the girl he loves using the money he expects to win.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronald Golias

A group of scoundrels want to make it by planning hoaxes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

Petrônio drives a bus and his friend Cabeleira is a ticket collector. When Petrônio's sister needs money to do a surgery they get...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dercy Gonçalves

Two friends are looking for a quiet place where they can rest awhile. Soon they find the town they'd chosen to go is far from quiet. In fact, it's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

Tired of royalty, the prince of Araquelândia switches identities with a popcorn maker look-alike so he can enjoy Rio de Janeiro's carnival...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oscarito

While trying to break an "animal game" gambling scheme, Det. Bartolomeu hits his head, and the gamblers convince him that he is one of them. But...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ankito

Genre: Music

Cast: Zé Trindade

Genre: Music

Cast: Ankito

During the inauguration of Brasília, Brazil's brand new capital city, singer and ballerina Gilda hides in a working-class night club to escape...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

The film narrates the adventures of the trickster Juca Moleza in the carnival while he has to deal with the consequences of the scams he applied to...

Genre: Music

Cast: Grande Otelo

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Júlio Bressane

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eliezer Gomes

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Cast: Raul Solnado

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grande Otelo

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ítala Nandi

The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zé Trindade

João-Sem-Direção knows Carvalhaes that proposes a blow to him. John does not accept the proposal, but ends up earning a hefty...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Grande Otelo

Story of a modest but talented soccer player for an obscure club in a small Brazilian town who comes to São Paulo and reaches stardom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edson Celulari

Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective...

Genre: Crime

Cast: José Augusto Branco

The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Duda Cavalcanti

A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Claudia Cardinale

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Alexandre Amorim

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grande Otelo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronald Golias

Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Procópio Ferreira

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

A veteran popular singer remembers her early days before fame as a humble woman who faced many obstacles in order to achieve fame, notoriety and make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Faria

Two new recruits at a fire station headquarter engage in a competition between two sergeants in personal rivalry

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaime Costa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grande Otelo

A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.

Genre: Music

Cast: Oscarito

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo José

Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and libertarian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tânia Alves

Movie producer Cecílio B. de Milho is intent on filming an epic about Helen of Troy, while some of the crew would rather turn it into a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

A hard working man goes to São Paulo to look for his twin brother unaware that he's famous for his lazyness.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Flora

In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Camila Amado

Tonico and Tião are two vaudevillian artists who travel across Brazil in search of fame and success. A crisis hits the duo when Tião...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edson Celulari

An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raul Cortez

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

Genre: History

Cast: Tony Tornado

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anselmo Duarte

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carmen Miranda

Genre: Music

Cast: Oscarito

Professor Leônidas Jau is an enemy of football, and in conferences and articles he throws all his hatred against the sport. Friendenreich, his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaime Costa

A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio de Janeiro. It follows the manufacture of the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Grande Otelo

Genre: Music

Cast: Mesquitinha

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Grande Otelo

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mick Jagger

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Cast: Léa Garcia

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Maccione

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Flávio Migliaccio

Roberto is blind and tunes pianos, isolated from the world and hurt by having abandoned his promising career as a pianist due to the accident that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cacilda Becker

A tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Breno Moroni

In a workshop there are six workers, the six are brothers. Enter the mother who asks them to rescue the seventh brother, the youngest, Luis. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbosa Júnior

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadi Cabral

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

A Brazilian musical comedy

Genre: Music

Cast: Oscarito

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Roberto Lupo

Genre: Music

Cast: Mesquitinha

Robinson Crusoe spoof, with touches of Peter Pan. Shipwreck victim lands on a desert island, finds a friendly native and has to fight pirates whose...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Costinha

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orson Welles

Dino and Dalmo are twin brothers. Dino is very shy, and the other, the opposite: a true Don Juan. When Dalmo dies, after being shot by a furious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ney Latorraca

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manoel Rocha

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gilberto Gil

Five friends decide to enjoy Mardi Gras without their wives, leaving them home. But one of the wives doesn't accept this arrangement and tries to get...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

A brief history of origins of brazilian carioca samba and its types.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Grande Otelo

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and maestro, Paulo Moura, talks about his influences and show his passion for the samba.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo Moura

The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo Gracindo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anselmo Duarte

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

Genre: Music

Cast: João Gilberto

The documentary O Samba é Primo do Jazz will show the musical trajectory of Alcione Dias Nazareth, the great Brazilian interpreter, from her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alcione

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo Silvino

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Cast: Oscarito

The son of a millionaire who owns gold mines in Transopia, Africa, Antoine Leblanc, who lives in a mansion in Rio, one day receives a letter from his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tony Tornado

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo José

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noel Rosa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Márcio Greyck

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marco Nanini

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Getúlio Vargas

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Cast: Grande Otelo

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sérgio Sampaio

Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sara Montiel

Three friends meeting after the absence of one of them for 15 years out of the country. This sudden gathering give them the opportunity to examine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arduíno Colassanti

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Grande Otelo

The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Garrincha

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vladimir Carvalho

Carlos Sebastião Prata Filho watches, for the first time, an interview given in 1963 by his father: Grande Othello. Alongside his four...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Grande Otelo

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orlando Brito

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Késia Estácio

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Júlio Bressane

The life and work of Zezé Motta.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zezé Motta