Movies

When radical science backfires, miners and researchers confront apocalypse in Tiago Melo’s pulpy, politically charged sci-fi fusing local myth,...

Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who...

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...

Zózimo Bulbul’s film is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares and to all Maroons dead and alive. It portrays the life of Aniceto, who was 72...

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural...

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal...

A documentary about Luz del Fuego, the naturist dancer who shook the moral foundations of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1940s and early 1950s with her...

A short film that emulates the activities of early Brazilian filmmakers known as "cavadores".

A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date...

In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his...

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista.

In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer,...

Film started in 1991, interrupted due to technical problems and finished in 2010. The camera travels along the banks of the Amazon, focusing on the...

Two criminal friends pick up two women.

The Feira da Sulanca still exists as a famous market in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil, that sells and exports items for the national clothing...