Hugo Carvana

Eldorado, a fictitious country in Latin America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power... (imdb)

Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes killed Corisco (the "Blond Devil"), last of the Cangaceiros... (imdb)

Woman runs away having the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events. (imdb)

This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as planned. (imdb)

A man leaves the apartment of his girlfriend to get a newspaper completely naked and the door closes behind him. One of the neighbours sees a naked man and screams, and the man runs away downstairs. Then, the movie shows various situations involving the man running down the streets of Rio de Janeiro, attempting to return home to get some clothes. (imdb)

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp decides to cheat a false millionaire, who only appears to be rich. (imdb)

Urtiga (Milton Gonçalves) and Santamaria (Hugo Carvana) are two mean, sadistic and cold blood killers. Santamaria claims that he has seen an angel, and is very mystic. They escape from the police siege in a slum in a hill and hide in an isolated house. When the owner arrives with two friends, they kill the man and submit the two women to many humiliations, before killing them. While moving to another place, they leave a trail of blood, cowardly executing many persons. (imdb)

Winner of the Best Film Award at the 2006 Montreal Film Festival, Carlos Diegues's intensely moving drama follows the personal odyssey of a 55-year-old man who returns to the Rio slums in an attempt to discover why his mother abandoned him at birth. (phillyfests.bside.com)

An allegorical film about Brazil's origins

Rocha's denunciation of European colonialism in Africa (filmreference.com)

The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.

Couple split but promise to meet each year. They marry other people but keep seeing each other through 25 years. (imdb)

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.

Biography of the actress Leila Diniz, which irreverent way of life incited controversials in Brasil during the decades of 1960 and 1970. Leila, that suffered pursuits in brazilian military dictatorship period, was symbol of women liberation in the country, as well godness of the tropicalism moviment.

Bank clerk witnesses people beating and kidnapping a man in the street. Then the bandits will try to shut him up.

In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit. (imdb)

Young woman leaves Minas Gerais State, Brazil, to try to be a singer in Rio de Janeiro.

The adventures and misadventure of a group of mobsters who share an apartment in the district of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.

Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarreling, only to be reconciled moments later. (imdb)

Man has a clandestine radio station in a shantytown, and broadcasts the swindles happening in the city, at the same time running absurd contests with preposterous prizes. (imdb)

Life and death of the Jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and Indians (imdb)

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society. (imdb)

The wife of a wealthy captain of industry carries on an affair with a younger man who works for a magazine in this combination romantic and political drama. A trip to her husband's factory opens her eyes to the fact that he provides for many people. She soon realizes that the young writer is taking the easy way out by always talking but never acting on his perpetual state of discontent about society. (allmovie.com/work/o-desafio-173087)

Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil. (imdb)

The theme deplores the conditions of the slum quarters of Rio (and ghettos everywhere) and finds a young girl from the provinces who comes to Rio de Janiero in search of her fiance and finds he is a feared and hunted criminal. The scenes between the idealistic-but-trapped young lovers is depicted in soft images of tenderness and sensitivity that leads to a climax of shocking violence in the Rio slums. (imdb)

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV. (imdb)

Adapting the novel by Jorge Amado Bahia in the early 20th century, when the students of the Medical School defend the race of their African ancestors. Pedro is Archanjo Ojuobá, mulatto, capoeira, guitar player, drinker, and father of many children made with the most beautiful black, mulatto and white women.

José Guerra, a humble citizen of the country's Reserve 17, naively cashes a check of one hundred thousand strikmas which he received from a mysterious Hindi. It's the equivalent of ten trillion dollars. The authorities require that money be deposited in the state and order the confinement of Jose Guerra in the interest of national security

Miguel Horta, a young opposition politician, decides switch of party to infiltrate the government by thinking that only within the power could do something for the public cause. One day receives the visit from a ward heeler saying that scabs are trying to overthrow the board of the union, because a bill which he authored. Despite appeals from Clara, his wife, Miguel goes to the union, where workers are in a general meeting.

The film focuses on subway construction workers, with the story revolving around the death of a worker due to lack of job security. The contractor responsible tries to bribe a widow, but the problem is taken up by a companion of the victim. From there unfolds a series of relationships between contractors and workers. (meucinemabrasileiro.com)

The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations. (imdb)

An aspirant writer founds out that his girlfriend is having an lesbian affair with a foreign girl. Instead of trying solve the problem, he starts having an affair with that girl.

Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds it isn't an easy task.

The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of the businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar, at the beginning of August. During the Vargas government crisis, the case is taken by the police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man, who is not well regarded by colleagues, since the place is totally surrendered to corruption. (imdb.com)

Harold Smith, an official of the Bank of Brazil, is going to Copacabana beach with family. The kids play to bury him in sand and it just stuck, leaving only his head out. Refuses to be released and made ​​speeches about the country, being surrounded by journalists and curious.

On Carnival's eve, girl dreams of a man to stay with her during these four days. She meets a photographer, with whom she has an affair.

The troubled routine of a pregnant unmarried woman who tries to give a good education to her six-year-old daughter, when they move from a poor neighborhood to Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. (imdb)

Lalau travels through the interior of Brazil, performing in a stand-up show. His father Ramon Velasco is also a comedian of the show and the businessman. One day Lalau receives a millionaire proposal to use their talents and pretend to be a famous Guru in a motivational speech.

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations. (imdb)

Ex-cop Vieira (Fagundes) is involved in the death of his lover (Polessa), a prostitute who works in the streets of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. After her death, some strange things started to happen and Vieira is harassed at the same time by the police and some old bad guys from his past. Meanwhile, he is seriously involved with a young and pretty prostitute named Flor (Knust). (imdb)

Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls. (imdb)

Five sketches, with a kind of humor typical of people who live in Rio de Janeiro. (imdb)

Carlos is fat, one wealthy family of fellow, but sad for rejection because of their weight. It is when he meets Sakhan fakir, a thin man, who struggle to live and left the northeast of Brazil to the big city.

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)

Based on the novel 'Matéria de Memória' of Carlos Heitor Cony, it tells the story of a widowed man who maintains ambiguous relations with his mother-in-law, who lives in the same house. Then he decides to lock himself in the room, reviving memory through old letters and photographs.

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

In this 7-hour-plus behemoth, Bressane re-edits his complete works, moving backwards and forwards between decades. The '60s, the '80s and the 2000s comment on each other in a way that sheds light on the director's themes and obsessions. (imdb)