Nelson Dantas

Best friends and their daughters holiday in Rio only for one to fall for the other's daughter. (imdb)

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life. (imdb)

Based on an actual historical incident, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's stylish, subversive The Conspirators is set in the late 18th century, when a group of provincial intellectuals, inspired by the revolutions in France and the U.S., plots an uprising to liberate Brazil, only to be brutally crushed by the Portuguese colonial authorities. (myTelus.com)

Adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic novel "Dom Casmurro". Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his. (imdb)

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)

Engraçadinha is a sexy teenager, with whom every man wants to get involved, except her cousin Sílvio, the only man she loves. On Sílvio's engagement day, she seduces him at the party and becomes pregnant. But her father, Dr. Arnaldo, tells her a horrible secret, saying that her child cannot be born. A tragedy ensues. (imdb)

The real story of a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders. (imdb)

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

In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies... (imdb)

In this movie Maluquinho tells a story with his friends on another trip to his grandfather's house where they discover a creature of fire called Tatá and become its friends.

Three segments based on stories in the Brazilian book of the same name.

Adventurer travels by train through the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, meeting old and new lovers and remembers love-affairs of his youth. (imdb)

In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais , Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to escape with her dream hero, the cowboy Roy Pereira, and start a new life in Texas. (imdb)

The illiterate population of the small town of Javé charge Antônio Biá with the mission of writing the story of the town.

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)

Brazilian movie of the Marginal Cinema.

Newly wed arrives at her husband's family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law's room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She's only to return seventeen years later, and sick. (imdb)

Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay... (imdb)

Member of a gang steals a stone of U$300,000, but when his boss discovers has only an imitation begins to pursue him. Thus, for a coup attempt he runs the risk of death and involves his ex-girlfriend and his best friend.

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for. (imdb)

Elevator is abducted in order to force a cardinal who was in it to marry a couple in Brazil. (imdb)

Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor (Chico Anysio)

The moral contradictions of the 70 are shown by Paulo Cunha Melo Chupadinho typical hustler who lives on the high tide of capitalism. He lies, cheats, betrays and is betrayed. Happy, despite the prevailing misery, leaves his wife in a convent and goes to Carnival in Rio, where he falls in love with a star and go to the brink of moral depravity. This opens a loophole for inevitable future consequences. This movie was banned in Brazil.

Movie director in his forties and in existencial crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with. (imdb)

High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start looking for young lovers at the local bordello. Their wives even make promises and novenas asking the disappearance of the new couple. One day, the judge dies, leaving his wife unsatisfied. The corpse, as if wanting revenge, keeps an erection on. (imdb)

Leniza was a famous singer of the past, and is now part of the jury of a talent show television. She remembers all his artistic career, since he was a humble seller of a pharmaceutical company who dreamed of fame on radio's heyday.

It tells the story of the kidnapping of a girl (Maribel) by the evil pirate Perna-de-Pau. Hidden in the attic of an old house, she meets a family of ghosts and befriends poof a ghost who is afraid of people.

Tired of the frenetic and futile way of life of big cities, a famous movie actress returns to the small town of Cataventos, her hometown, as a way to reconnect with her past lifestyle. However, as local politicians uncover her plans to spend a season in the city, they seek to capitalize on the star's presence in the region as much as possible, as a way to use her influence to defend their favorite causes. (adorocinema)

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)

Lúcia McCartney is a modern girl who likes to have dates with men. The commission agents have her phone number and convenes meetings with businessmen who need to have fun. On one occasion knows the rich industrial José Roberto, whose demand for more serious relationship is thwarted by social climbing and the lifestyle of each one.

Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get his pet back, he leaves home and faces all dangers ahead with courage, getting involved in many adventures.