Movies

Arne Sucksdorff’s drama follows four homeless children—Jorginho, Rico, Lici, and Paulinho—struggling to survive in the Rio de...

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...

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

Vera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship, has lived in multiple South American countries. Her...

Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s...

The end and the beginning of the relationship between Jade and Caio, the first human couple in history to be brought together by an artificial...

Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint...

In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly abandoned by the women they love. Sad and...

In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and...

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in...

A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a...

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son...

The river is not the same. It has turned into contaminated mud. Residents of a fishing village face an uncertain future after the dam burst. Yara and...

The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk melody in all time, showing how the rhythm and...

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...

In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constant threat of sexual violence coming from the rest...

A once-rich family of women in Rio de Janeiro must sell their mansion in order to keep their high standard of living, but the proximity to the slums...

In the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro during the early 1980s, Justino finds a chance to escape poverty and transform his life through a powerful...