Cláudio Mamberti

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood. (imdb)

During the Second World War, the U.S.A. established a military base in Natal, Brazil, changing in many ways people's lives and behavior. (imdb)

The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny, leaving their partners. Quatrilho is the name of a card game in wich the player have to betray his partner in order to become the champion. (imdb)

Godofredo suffers a terrible blow when he comes back home earlier than usual and finds his wife in the arms of his partner. He sends his wife away to a coast town and dares his rival to a duel. But he begins to miss his wife and the company of his friend. (imdb)

Good-looking middle-class boy, arrested because of a minor offense (a fight in a bar), is put in a fetid small cell with six dangerous and poor criminals, and ends up being brutally raped. (imdb)

Brazilian portmanteau

Romantic bandits, corrupt policemen, a mysterious woman, escapes, chases, shootings, all set in São Paulo by night.

In São Paulo, the relationship of the successful television actress Gilda de Oliveira with the actor Paulo Cavalcante is in crisis. Gilda is rejected by Paulo and now she is lost, feeling like a victim of something that has not worked out and seeking out her identity.

Factory workers get fired for kissing during work hours. (imdb)

The unexpected death of Antonio Carlos, an intellectual of the left, who wrote a book in which he denounced an international scandal in which authorities were tucked policies, affects the lives of three characters.

Gilberto loses his job as chauffeur to be caught in a motel with his wife's boss. To keep himself and his mother, Shirley, Gilberto goes through various jobs, gaff the bus driver to Japanese tourists. He is still haunted by Veronica, a nearby hot chick married to an Argentine who works at night and during the day just want to sleep. It is when a new neighbor, Marcia arrives in the building, pregnant from her ex-boyfriend.

Face to face to reality. 12 itens, 12 directors, where there a merge is made between cinema-verite and fiction, cartoons and fantastic realism, and an infinity of other tendencies and manifestations of the free speech. A survey about Brazil during the 70s. An experiment about freedom.

The story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hanged. (imdb)

Polish Jewish woman arrives in Brazil dreaming of marrying but has to become a prostitute to survive. At the same time, sanitarian doctor Oswaldo Cruz comes back to Brazil after three years in Paris, where he had studied in the Pasteur Institute. He's full of ideas on how to change Brazilian public health, which is being threatened by yellow fever. (imdb)

After being fired and having been a victim of an assault, in which he loses his car and all the money from the guarantee fund gained after years of work, Antonio sees no alternative but to make a robbery. In the middle of a flight, he encounters Julia ,a psychology teacher who ends up being held hostage by Antonio for 3 days. During this period, the two fall madly in love but do not know what to do with this relationship of fear, love and hate.

Cassiano and Tião are brothers living apart from one another in the Amazon. Cassiano holds a tract of land in Rondônia he received from the Brazilian Institute of Land Reform (INCRA). Tião is a squatter in southern Pará. The film tells the story of the two brothers in different situations and dives into the reality of the occupation of the Amazon promoted by the military government.