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Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one...
Searching for Makunaima
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
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...
Fitzcarraldo
Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).
Noel por Noel
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...
Alibi
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...
The Agony
Em Ritmo Jovem
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...
Macunaima
A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.
It's All True
A Noite dos Duros
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...
I Loved a Bookie
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",...
O Rei do Baralho
A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.
Rio, Zona Norte
Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.
Getúlio Vargas
A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de...
A Familia do Barulho
A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
It's All Brazil
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...
Carnaval Atlântida
"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...
Matar ou Correr
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...
Aviso aos Navegantes
Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.
Depois Eu Conto
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...
A Baronesa Transviada
A street vendor and a servant theater, newly unemployed, accidentally swap their briefcases trinkets for one of three bandits who just rob a bank....
De Pernas Pro Ar
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
It's Not All True
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...
Também Somos Irmãos
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
A Doce Mulher Amada
The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.
Lucio Flavio
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and...
Othelo The Great
A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The...
Carnaval no Fogo
Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural...
Welles' Language
Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.
Se Meu Dólar Falasse
Young man participates in TV contests to help the girl he loves using the money he expects to win.
O Dono da Bola
A group of scoundrels want to make it by planning hoaxes.
Vai Que é Mole
Petrônio drives a bus and his friend Cabeleira is a ticket collector. When Petrônio's sister needs money to do a surgery they get...
Pé na Tábua
Mulheres à Vista
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...
Pistoleiro Bossa Nova
Garota Enxuta
During the inauguration of Brasília, Brazil's brand new capital city, singer and ballerina Gilda hides in a working-class night club to escape...
Um Candango na Belacap
Katharsys
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...
É de Chuá!
The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and...
Chinese Viola
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...
Assault on the Pay Train
Aventuras d'um Detetive Português
Cachoeiro em Três Tons
The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently...
Exu-Piá, Coração de Macunaíma
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...
Jubiabá
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...
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Carlos Sebastião Prata Filho watches, for the first time, an interview given in 1963 by his father: Grande Othello. Alongside his four...
Othelo
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...
Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo
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...
The Brazilwood Man
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair...
Samba
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...
Quilombo
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen...
Bahia
Os Três Cangaceiros
Entrei de Gaiato
Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and libertarian...
Parahyba Mulher Macho
João-Sem-Direção knows Carvalhaes that proposes a blow to him. John does not accept the proposal, but ends up earning a hefty...
O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões
Tired of royalty, the prince of Araquelândia switches identities with a popcorn maker look-alike so he can enjoy Rio de Janeiro's carnival...
Metido a Bacana
Assim Era a Atlântida
Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects...
The Force of Xango
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...
The Cosmonauts
When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her...
A Noiva da Cidade
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...
Sweet Thieves
Quero Essa Mulher Assim Mesmo
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...
Doomed Lovers
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.
Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.
A Rose for Everyone
Paixão nas Selvas
Moleque Tião
O Homem Que Roubou a Copa do Mundo
Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.
Crônica da Cidade Amada
Mujeres de fuego
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...
The Star Rises
Malandros em Quarta Dimensão
Two new recruits at a fire station headquarter engage in a competition between two sergeants in personal rivalry
Com Jeito Vai
A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.
Barnabé, You Are Mine
Ladrão de Bagdá
O Negrinho do Pastoreio
Tem Alguém na Minha Cama
The Outsiders
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...
Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
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...
...E o Bicho Não Deu
A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.
Três Vagabundos
A hard working man goes to São Paulo to look for his twin brother unaware that he's famous for his lazyness.
É com Este que Eu Vou
Onde Estás, Felicidade?
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...
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his...
Abolition
Tonico and Tião are two vaudevillian artists who travel across Brazil in search of fame and success. A crisis hits the duo when Tião...
A Dupla do Barulho
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...
Brasa Adormecida
The life and work of Zezé Motta.
Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman
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...
Jardim de Alah
Tristezas Não Pagam Dívidas
... E O Mundo Se Diverte
A Embaixatriz do Samba
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...
Massacre no Supermercado
Professor Leônidas Jau is an enemy of football, and in conferences and articles he throws all his hatred against the sport. Friendenreich, his...
Family Football
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...
Fala Mangueira!
Boca de Ouro
Sebastião Prata, ou Bem Dizendo, Grande Otelo
Samba em Berlim
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.
Running Out of Luck
Troca de Cabeça
Carioca Tigre
O Donzelo
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...
Luz dos Meus Olhos
A tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.
Cassy Jones, O Magnífico Sedutor
A Paz é Dourada
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...
O Caçula do Barulho
Laranja da China
Noites Cariocas
Não Aperta, Aparício
A Brazilian musical comedy
The World is a Tambourine
Black Diamonds
João Ninguém is a humble composer who made the waltz "Sonhos Azuis" as a gift to his girlfriend on her birthday. To give it to her, he...
João Ninguém
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...
As Aventuras de Robinson Crusoé
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...
The Welles Raft
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...
Deixa, Amorzinho... Deixa
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.
Romance Proibido
What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes...
Pressed, Ripped Apart
Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.
Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion
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...
O Flagrante
A brief history of origins of brazilian carioca samba and its types.
Black Fragments of Samba - Cariocas, The City Musicians
Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and maestro, Paulo Moura, talks about his influences and show his passion for the samba.
Black Fragments of Samba - Paulo Moura, Infinite Music
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...
Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado
Terra Violenta
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.
Brasil
The documentary O Samba é Primo do Jazz will show the musical trajectory of Alcione Dias Nazareth, the great Brazilian interpreter, from her...
O Samba é Primo do Jazz
Cômicos... + Cômicos...
Não Adianta Chorar
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...
Bloody Gold
Semana de Arte Moderna
A man gets his chance to interview art.
O Pó da Terra