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In Minas Gerais, the powerful "colonel" Alexandrão gets married with the young and virgin Cristina and promotes a huge wedding party in his...
A Viúva Virgem
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
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
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
Twin brothers arrive in Rio during the Carnival. One is a priest and is going to work in a parish; the other, a drug-dealer, in a business trip to...
Si tu vas à Rio... tu meurs
A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.
The Seven Vampires
A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.
The Secret of the Mummy
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...
Rio Babilonia
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
Dr. Jegue is a fumbling inventor and scientist, who in his spare time helps his friends Kiko, Sassá, and Quindim in a mechanic's shop. The...
O Incrível Monstro Trapalhão
Woman hires three clumsy adventurers to rescue her missing archaeologist father, who was trying to find the legendary King Solomon's mines.
O Trapalhão nas Minas do Rei Salomão
The friends Curió, Boroca (Dedé Santana), Mexelete and Bateia they venture in search of gold in the mine of Serra Pelada. The area is...
Os Trapalhões na Serra Pelada
The lawyer Roberto leaves his career and his fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his entire family in a brutal massacre.
Ódio
Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their...
Anatomia do Espectador
The friends Didi, Dede, and Zechariah Mussum sell crafts on the roadside when supreendidos a car chase. After an accident succor old Giovanni (Grey...
The Ghoulish Ghosts
In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande...
Memories of Prison
A TV que Virou Estrela
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
Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful...
The Scarlet Scorpion
Balança Mas Não Cai
Barber's jeep crash against crazy scientist's house, where the latter was building a time-machine. The crash triggers the machine, taking them to...
Nem Sansão Nem Dalila
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
Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to...
The Abyss
The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of...
Bonitinha mas Ordinária
A millionaire Aníbal sponsor a car racing, the "Youth's Rally". A couple, Helena and Fernando, want to be part of the competition but after a...
Salve-Se Quem Puder - O Rally da Juventude
Hillbilly avoids a train disaster, becoming a hero. A dishonest politician tries to take advantage of the fact, to promote himself.
Chico Fumaça
Vida e Glória de um Canalha
During an orgy of millionaires, a woman is mysteriously kidnapped and killed. The crime causes quite a stir in local society, as the investigations...
Os Amores da Pantera
A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.
O Gigante da América
A comedy about the happiness of several people who won the number 12 of Sports Lottery, thinking they are the only winner. Among them, one priest...
Como Ganhar na Loteria Sem Perder a Esportiva
This film is Ivan Cardoso's new incursion on pop and experimental cinema, making an hommage to old screenings at Cine AC, and reuniting restaured...
Orgy of the Devil and Other Forbidden Tapes of Ivan Cardoso
The Macabre Sarcophagus
Procura-se uma Virgem
Reg owns the store "Tem Tudo... E Muito Mais" (Has Everything... And Much More). To satisfy his customers, he is forced to perform the most strange...
Com as Calças na Mão
Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's...
Brás Cubas
O Ibraim do Subúrbio
After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of...
Engraçadinha
Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.
The Wizard and the Sheriff
The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working...
A Lost Woman
The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its...
The Conspirators
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
Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that...
The Saint and the Star
"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
Ali Baba falls for a former trapeze artist who was paralyzed in an accident and wants to get money to make the girl recover their health. Ali Baba...
Ali Babá e os Quarenta Ladrões
Wilson Grey
Jorden Er Flad or The Earth is Flat is based on the play Erasmus Montanus, from the classical era in Danish literature, by Ludvig Holberg. Director...
The Earth Is Flat
Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.
Go To Work You Bum!
Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.
Parceiros da Aventura
Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can...
The Devil Queen
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
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair...
Samba
Mr. Kapa and his assistant meet Iara, a mythical being, in a river with purple waters. Geléia, the assistant, fills a bottle with this magic...
A Dança dos Bonecos
Romantic biography of Maria Bonita, daughter of a poor farmer who was kidnapped by Lampião and became his lover.
Maria Bonita, Rainha do Cangaço
Bububu no Bobobó
In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living...
Malandro
The life of Brazilian actress Leila Diniz.
Leila Diniz
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Bar Esperanza
O Lado Certo da Vida Errada
O Viúvo Alegre
A lady, owner of a large area of land where it is believed there are several oil wells, is almost fooled by the president of a pseudo petroleum...
O Petróleo é Nosso
A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.
Osso, Amor e Papagaios
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
The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's...
Tati, a Garota
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
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
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
Based on real-life Brazilian bandit "Mineirinho", the film follows the story of Zezé, a man falsely accused by sensasionalist press of being a...
Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
This Brazilian film is set during the period of its initial colonial discovery and settlement. The title refers to a word the native peoples used for...
Pindorama
After a powerful outlaw dies, a reporter interviews his lover and gets three different stories about the legendary man.
Golden Mouth
An unhappily married woman becomes the mistress to a sleaze-ball who introduces her to a group of satanists who are willing to kill her rich husband.
Guru das Sete Cidades
An architect has his family brutally murdered and leaves for relentless vengeance.
Escalada da Violência
Counting on her looks, beautiful and mysterious woman blackmails powerful businessmen involved in fishy schemes, getting everything she wants from...
Uma Fêmea do Outro Mundo
During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of the regime.
Corpo em Delito
A young girl, seeking to unravel the mystery of her father's death, travels through the Amazon jungle into a nightmare of danger.
River of Evil
A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.
The Universe of Mojica Marins
Etéia, a Extraterrestre em Sua Aventura no Rio
Sangue Quente em Tarde Fria
Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only...
Se Segura, Malandro!
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
Paixão nas Selvas
Cuidado! Espião Brasileiro em Ação!
Tudo Legal
Monica, a naive schoolgirl from a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, meets Virginia, a former neighbor, now living in Copacabana. Influenced by her, she...
As Borboletas Também Amam
Terra dos Amores
O Filho do Chefão
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
Nem os Bruxos Escapam
O Feijão é Nosso
Sad with her grandfather's death, Maria goes on vacation with her friend João on board a jeep. After being threatened by three thieves and...
As Quatro Chaves Mágicas
Crime no Sacopã
Ninguém Segura Essas Mulheres
Adventures of a migrant who comes from Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, where he meets a prostitute.
Na Ponta da Faca
Inspired by the life of one of the most famous policemen in the history of Brazil: detective Perpétuo de Freitas, immortalized in the annals...
Perpétuo Contra o Esquadrão da Morte
Wanted by the police, a university professor flees to a hotel in the interior and causes changes in the lives of the owner of the establishment and...
Os Devassos
Estranhas Relações
O Monstro de Santa Tereza
Solitary young man, dominated by his mother, lives in a daydream. He buys a toy gun and impersonates a crime book personage.
Revólver de Brinquedo
Os Foragidos da Violência
Malandros em Quarta Dimensão
Ladrão de Bagdá
Strange graffiti on the walls of Rio de Janeiro, with the meaningless words Lerfá Mú, become the talk of the town, and cause for...
Lerfá Mú
Tem Alguém na Minha Cama
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out
Memória Viva
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
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
Anchieta, José do Brasil
Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin....
Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
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
After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking...
Chronicle of an Industrial
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
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
Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
When Carnaval Comes
Camouflaged Virgin
Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Fuzileiro do Amor
Titio Não é Sopa
Clementino is a postman who doesn't have much talent for the job and is six months behind in the payment of his apartment. While delivering a...
O Rei do Movimento
João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.
Ovelha Negra, Uma Despedida de Solteiro
Vamos com Calma
The biography of the singer Francisco Alves. It narrates his father's opposition to his singing, his adventure in the circus, his love affairs and...
Chico Viola Não Morreu
Alligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife.
Shut Up, Etelvina
The film depicts the arrival of immigrants in the city of Espírito Santo following the history of Carlos, an Italian who struggles for his...
O Vale do Canaã
After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He...
Gordos e Magros
A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power...
Águia na Cabeça
O Fraco do Sexo Forte
O Primo do Cangaceiro
O Bolão
Pensionato das Vigaristas
Marido de Mulher Boa
Um Ladrão
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...
Lucia McCartney, Call Girl
Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.
The Monsters of Babaloo
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
A common robber is turned into a killer when he discovers that his sister was sexually assaulted by a policeman. After his act of vengeance, the...
Na Mira do Assassino
Esse Rio que Eu Amo
In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The...
República dos Assassinos
Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the...
Baixo Gávea
True story of a famous and violent Brazilian outlaw nicknamed "Paraíba". After being shot, Paraíba tries to hide inside a church, where...
Paraíba, Vida e Morte de um Bandido
Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.
Fish in a Barrel
In Petrópolis in the 1950s, the group of Nei, Cabelinho, Bambolê, Laura and Carminha is excited about the arrival of the cariocas, who...
Banana Split
Brazilian comedy in two segments. 'Theft of the Panties': Four friends are broke during Christmas. Genaro decides to rob a brothel because he thinks...
O Roubo das Calcinhas
Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor, Chico Anysio: O Torneio (The Tournament), A Boca (The Mouth), O Filminho (The Short Film), A...
O Doce Esporte do Sexo
Somebody is selling songs for two recording companies, simultaneously. The owner of one of them hires a detective to find out the swindler's...
Quem Roubou Meu Samba?
O Camelô da Rua Larga
Carnival in Caxias
Silvia, a former prostitute from a country town, after winning the corner of Loto, buys the main hotel in her town and, in retaliation, turns it into...
Tem Piranha no Aquário
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
Fire Light
Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving...
A Maldição do Sanpaku
A millionaire lives in a sinister cottage where strange events unfold. A damned creature, he transforms himself in a werewolf and leads a following...
The Werewolf: A Midnight Terror
Os Três Cangaceiros
Depravação II
Costinha, o Rei da Selva
The counterfeiter Clementino begins to be pursued by Interpol. Arriving in Sao Paulo, he notices the presence of the police and suffers an accident....
Nudista à Força
Quem Sabe... Sabe!
Sherlock de Araque
A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.
Insônia
O Último Malandro
Salário Mínimo
Empregada Para Todo o Serviço
Sexo e Sangue
Minervina Vem Aí
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.
Um Filme 100% Brasileiro
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
Musical documentary focused on the iconic figure of singer and songwriter Antônio Moreira da Silva, also known as Kid Morangueira. Inventor of...
Moreira da Silva
Os Alegres Vigaristas
O Supercareta
A compilation of comedy/horror short films from Brazilian avant-garde Super 8 filmmaker Ivan Cardoso
Ivampirismo - O Cinema em Pânico
A mummy movie without a script.
The Damned Lake
Ana, a Libertina
A docu-fiction film that dabbles on the soul of Rio de Janeiro culture as it exploits the figure of the local well-known archetype of the "malandro"
Malandrando
During the breaks of the shooting of "The Secret of the Mummy", Wilson Grey dreams. He dreams of great loves, breathtaking women and a great party...
Folias em Bagdá
A group of girls meets a strange man in what was supposed to be a normal evening at an amusement park.
A Normalista e o Anormal
Mulheres, Música e Carnaval
An experimental essay shot by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on video.
Videotrip
In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to...
Minas Texas
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his...
Kiss of the Spider Woman
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
Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and...
Fruit of Love
Barber likes to help everybody in town. Now, he's trying to help a young couple in love defeat the girl's tutor, who is against the romance.
O Barbeiro Que Se Vira
It is a film about the deep Brazil, not Brazil as a society, state or experience; it is a film about a geological, prehistoric and pre-logical...
O Monstro Caraíba
A Viúva Valentina
Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and...
Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite
Winner of a Theater talent contest, in which he was the only one to enroll, Belizário da Silva leaves his hometown, and tries to make it in...
Eu Sou o Tal
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
Sete Homens Vivos ou Mortos