B. de Paiva

Bezerra de Menezes: O Diário de um Espírito (2008)

The film follows the life of the doctor Menezes (Carlos Vereza), known as the doctor of the poor. ...

Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio (2002)

I Didn't Know Tururu (2000)

As Carmen prepares to marry for the fourth time, her three sisters find themselves juggling romantic predicaments of their own in this offbeat comedy from Brazil. ...

No Coração dos Deuses (1999)

Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure from the pioneers, and end up going back two centuries in time, in search of the legendary Minas dos Martírios. ...

Milagre em Juazeiro (1999)

Ceará, 1889. Father Cícero Romão Batista ministers to the faithful in the parish of Juazeiro do Norte. Among them is Maria de Araújo, a simple and religious woman who, on receiving communion from the hands of father Cícero, transforms it into blood. ...

Corisco & Dadá (1996)

Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they ter ...

O Calor da Pele (1994)

A TV que Virou Estrela (1993)

A República dos Anjos (1991)

A period piece set in the 1920s and 1930s. It tells the story of Santa Dica, leader of the messianic movement in Goiás, a peasant girl of rare beauty who comes back to life after mysteriously appearing dead at the age of 13. The film covers the Prestes Co ...

O Círculo de Fogo (1990)

Conterrâneos Velhos de Guerra (1990)

Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and humiliation they suffered in the process. ...

Tigipió - Uma Questão de Amor e Honra (1987)

The Dream's Not Over (1982)

The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s. ...

A Volta do Filho Pródigo (1978)

Unemployed, penniless in the big city and after accidentally stealing and killing his landlady, Antonio flees Rio de Janeiro towards Northeast of Brazil to find his mother. On the way he meets a beautiful woman and a pair of criminals. ...

Crioulo Doido (1971)

Fable about the financial and social ascension of a black man in a small town, in the interior of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and his existential crisis when he begins to believe the world is going to end. ...