Arnaldo Jabor

In this intense and claustrophobic Brazilian drama with darkly satiric overtones, a self-made rich man is riven by conflicts and guilt as his daughter (for whom he has an incestuous lust) prepares to marry a man whom he secretly knows is a homosexual. His own affairs are far from simple, and he suffers from guilt about some fatally shoddy housing he once built. (All Movie Guide)

Rich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion. (imdb)

Documentary about the dying art of popular circuses in Rio de Janeiro. (imdb)

Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the sixties, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and the following dictatorship. Interviews with people in the street disclose their fears, aspirations and political alienation. (imdb)

An allegorical film about Brazil's origins

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell. (imdb)

Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness. (imdb)

Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship. (imdb)

During a night of Rio's Carnival, a woman lives through an existential crisis.

Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams - or nearly all - seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950's and 1960's. (mostra.org)