Abrahão Farc

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina (2021)

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the ...

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum (2014)

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritar ...

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit (2012)

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years. ...

Father’s Chair (2012)

Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He's a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved me ...

A Grande Viagem (2011)

Mr. Mario can't distinguish anymore the past from the present. He lives again, inside his own mind, a period of his life when he was a salesman going door to door selling travel guides. However, Mr. Mario has never traveled, but now, an opportunity to see ...

Drained (2006)

A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control. ...

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil. ...

Cafundó (2005)

Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. Jo ...

Nina (2004)

After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world. ...

Manual for Love Stories (2004)

Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that ...

Avocado Seed (1998)

A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl. ...

Love! (1994)

A funny yet bitter panorama of the several possible viewpoints of this feeling that fulfils hearts and minds. ...

Buccaneer Soul (1993)

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals. ...

Oswaldianas (1992)

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade. ...

Perigo Negro (1992)

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler ...

Vera (1986)

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer who committed suicide at the age of 20, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a transman who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara. ...

It's Not All True (1986)

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True. ...

Act of Violence (1981)

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out. ...

Dracula, a Love Story (1980)

Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments ...

The Ripper of Women (1978)

Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case. ...

Beautiful and Corrupted (1977)

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers. ...

Excitation (1977)

Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous crises. But soon she begins to suffer from increasingly worrying hallucinations, and the house's mystery appliance ...

Tiradentes, O Mártir da Independência (1977)

O Mulherengo (1976)

O Predileto (1975)

Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after mov ...

Cada um Dá o Que Tem (1975)

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women. ...

O Detetive Bolacha Contra o Gênio do Crime (1973)

Bang Bang (1971)

An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature. ...

The Woman of Everyone (1969)

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power. ...