Ana Maria Miranda

Bastidores de Padre Cícero: O Filme (2018)

1968 - Without Losing Tenderness (2001)

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence. ...

Dor Secreta (1980)

Amor Bandido (1979)

Police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he looks for a serial killer, he also searches for his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he kicked out of the house. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho ...

The Pleasure Principle (1979)

In a financially troubled farm in the 1930's, its depraved owners become attracted to their new handsome and young handyman. ...

A Rainha do Rádio (1979)

Chronicle of an Industrial (1978)

After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking for a possible personal redemption after a foreign company buys his business. His life breaks into pieces. ...

Na Ponta da Faca (1977)

Adventures of a migrant who comes from Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, where he meets a prostitute. ...

Anchieta, José do Brasil (1977)

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil. ...

Un animal doué de déraison (1976)

A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then shared his project with a journalist friend, who decided to make it the theme of a novel he imagined in 18th c ...

Padre Cícero: Os Milagres de Juazeiro (1976)

The Legend of Ubirajara (1975)

In order to earn a warrior name, the son of Araguaia chief wanders the forest, falls in love with a girl from the Tocantins tribe, and defeats their bravest warrior. When his true identity is discovered, he makes a deal: promises to fight the Tapuias, anot ...

Ovelha Negra, Uma Despedida de Solteiro (1974)

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer. ...

Cinema (1974)

A lesson in conciseness, expressiveness, and humor on the inexhaustible theme of the dream of making movies. A parodic lesson, a Brazilian version of historical scenes filmed by the Lumiére brothers in 1895—the baby, the bath in the garden, the workers ...

Who Is Beta? (1972)

The critical success in France of How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman made possible dos Santos' delirious science-fiction vision of free love in a post-apocalyptic wilderness besieged by flesh hungry zombies contaminated by an unnamed nuclear attack. Who is ...

João and the Knife (1972)

Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can't give her any children, he moves to the interior to make money, so she will at least have a good life. When he returns, he is told she has a three-year-old ...

Love, Carnival and Dreams (1972)

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. ...

Os Devassos (1971)

Wanted by the police, a university professor flees to a hotel in the interior and causes changes in the lives of the owner of the establishment and his wife. ...

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)

In 1594 Brazil, a frenchman becomes a prisoner of the Tupinambás. While waiting to be executed, the foreigner learns the habits of the indigenous people and joins a woman who tries to help him escape. ...

Mãos Vazias (1971)

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a woman rebels against local morality after her child dies, with tragic results. ...

Tatu Bola (1971)

Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother ...

Desmundo (2002)

The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570. ...

Tent of Miracles (1977)

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only th ...