Movies

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé.

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to...

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...

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

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell...

Adventures of a migrant who comes from Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, where he meets a prostitute.

Geraldo Viramundo is a nice guy with absurd ideas. Viramundo becomes a priest, politician, soldier, and revolutionary in his quest for freedom and...

Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich...

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

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...

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...