Maria Gladys

Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. An essay on the oppression and dehumanization of...

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Cast: Paulo César Peréio

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

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glória Pires

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Milton Gonçalves

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cláudia Raia

Meu Nome é Dindi shows the movement of time over a young woman who owns a small marketplace near bankruptcy and fights for survival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Djin Sganzerla

Poor boy treats a sweet lemon tree as his only friend, talking to it, and learning important values in the process. But one day the tree must be cut.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Júlio César Cruz

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 group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Átila Iório

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Gladys

Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luiz Fernando Guimarães

A documentary about actress brazilian Maria Gladys, a strong presence in films by Júlio Bressane, Rogério Sganzerla among others.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria Gladys

The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Gladys

French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemian parties during the celebration of carnaval.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alvaro Apocalipse

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Ramos

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Fernando Eiras

An orphan, a blind virgin who seeks sexual pleasure, a young man who prostitutes himself as a transvestite and is sexually abused by his...

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Cast: Claudio Jaborandy

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marília Pêra

Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world…...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Barbieri

Marta, a young mother, hardly believes when she hears her young baby speak. She tries to convince the other people in the family of the fact, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andréa Beltrão

Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marco Nanini

Genre: Crime

Cast: Milton Rodríguez

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carla Camurati

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

Genre: History

Cast: Ney Latorraca

Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cláudio Marzo

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Coyote

Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irandhir Santos

Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo Betti

Suellen (Thalita Carauta) is a cook who works hard to keep her little son, her younger sister and her mother alone. One day, your dreams come true:...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thalita Carauta

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jorge Loredo

A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jece Valadão

In the 60's Lúcia McCartney is a call girl who is a fan of the Beatles. A diplomat tries to get her out of prostitution by falling in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriana Prieto

A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo César Saraceni

A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner's story

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Garcia

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

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leila Diniz

Two fanatical Flamengo fans get drunk after a defeat of time; a voyeurist peers at his neighbor's nakedness with binoculars; a suburbanite kills his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria Gladys

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Betty Faria

A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jece Valadão

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carlo Mossy

Genre: Music

Cast: Wilson Simonal

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel Barcellos

A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropophagically...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Maria Gladys

On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marieta Severo

A man arrives in Tocantins river, looking for fortune.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Luiz Linhares

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Cast: Manoel de Barros

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Júlio Bressane

A countercultural movement that took place at Ipanema Pier marked the history of all participants. Painters, musicians, actors, surfers and others...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria Gladys

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

In the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosius, newly arrived at the village, pities the girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Pillar

Lalau (Gregorio Duvivier) is presented by the country's interior with his show jokes, whose main theme is her father, Ramon Velasco (Tarcisio Meira),...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tarcísio Meira

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neville D'Almeida

Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Miguel Falabella

Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through pop,...

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Cast: José Leonilson

Topless muse in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Nogueira uses the ban on bare breasts and her story to debate freedom and feminism in the city that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frederico Mendes

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neville D'Almeida

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leila Diniz

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