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Special Agents (2026)

Two friends determined to become respected police officers face prejudice and ridicule for being openly gay. Given one final chance, they go undercover to infiltrate a dangerous gang terrorizing the city. Posing as inmates, they navigate chaotic events, in ...

Manas (2025)

Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dar ...

A Cabana (2024)

A woman and a man live their life together in a vague manner, absent and mechanical in the cloud that surrounds them. A couple who cannot see each other. Till when? ...

Pasárgada (2024)

Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses herself in a sensory journey to rescue her desires, facing her dilemmas that confront the illegal trafficking of wild birds. ...

Mada e Bia (2024)

Tributo: Laura Cardoso (2024)

Ó Paí, Ó 2 (2023)

Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, gossip and confusion. The neighborhood prepares for the Iemanjá party, while dealing with the controversies of the neighbors. ...

Pureza (2022)

"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon. ...

Venice (2021)

Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa's dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the interior of Brazil and even though she is blind and very sick, she insists on fulfilling her last wish: to go to Venice to apologize to the lover she abandon ...

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself. ...

O Filme da Minha Vida (2020)

Divine Love (2019)

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana ...

The Age of Water (2018)

The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet. In addition to concentrating 20% of the world's drinking water, the Amazon is the region with the greatest ...

Encantados (2017)

The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit. ...

Clara Estrela (2017)

Lino (2017)

Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, making fun of him because he works in a cat's costume. Determined to change his life, he visits a wizard, but the magic doesn't work in the right way, and he ...

Whirlpool (2017)

Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and ...

Mulheres no Poder (2016)

A corrupt senator, Maria Pilar sees a great opportunity to win in the bidding process for the Brasil Brasileiro project. After contacting Minister Ivone Feitosa in search of more information, Maria is told to talk to the ministry's executive secretary, Mad ...

Orphans of Eldorado (2015)

A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair... ...

26º Prêmio da Música Brasileira - Homenagem a Maria Bethânia (2015)

Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos - O Filme (2015)

The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho -- and soon finds out he's spending all their money on gambles and has mistresses all over the city. Vadinho suddenly dies while partying during Carnival, and Flor, left helpless and full of debts, ends up marrying Teodor ...

O Segredo dos Diamantes (2014)

Ângelo arrives at his grandmother's house in Minas Gerais. There, a small chest full of coins and an enigma were discovered, supposedly left by a priest who, 200 years earlier, would have hidden a handful of diamonds. ...

Os Amigos (2013)

A lonely architect attends the funeral of his childhood best friend and embarks on a personal journey of reminiscence and self-reflection. ...

Along the Way (2012)

To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until João discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, João ...

Hey, Did You Score? (2012)

Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing. ...

Rat Fever (2012)

Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who'd listen. Our charact ...

Até a Vista (2012)

Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyright for a novel, the young man accepts the author's unusual proposal and together they set off in search of an old love of the writer. ...

Southwest (2011)

In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around h ...

We're Together (2011)

A young doctor has a promising career in São Paulo, but the diagnosis of a serious illness profoundly changes her relationship with the world around her. ...

Ribeirinhos do Asfalto (2011)

Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the city she often admires from afar. Her mother (Dira Paes), aware of her daughter's longing, wants to help her achieve i ...

Matinta (2010)

A little fisher village in Brazilian Amazon. Without aparent reason, the dweller start falling ill. Would it be a witchcraft? Felício looks desperatelly for the cure to save the life of his wife. ...

Chico e Amigos (2009)

The Dead Girl's Feast (2009)

The story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a "miracle" upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of thos ...

Esse Homem vai Morrer - Um Faroeste Caboclo (2008)

O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil (2007)

Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the past. ...

Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This (2007)

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music. ...

The Big Family: The Movie (2007)

Public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate the 40th anniversary of their first date. In the present day, Lineu feels uncomfortable when colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for an examination. When the result of h ...

Bog of Beasts (2006)

A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money. ...

Mulheres do Brasil (2006)

Two Sons of Francisco (2005)

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen. ...

Incuráveis (2005)

Celeste e Estrela (2005)

While waiting for her at the airport, a film critic recounts to a receptionist how he met his great love, Celeste. ...

My Uncle Killed a Guy (2004)

Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory. ...

Noite de São João (2003)

An arrogant young woman, the landowner's daughter, gets involved with the farm straw boss. ...

Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio (2002)

In the mid-19th century, Colonel Pedro Cambará rapes his slave, who gives birth to a girl on a full moon night. Named Lua (Moon), she has to fight with the same weapons as men to win her place in the world. ...

Mango Yellow (2002)

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil. ...

Louise's Wedding (2001)

Two women, from opposite worlds, Louise and her maid Luzia, both share a passion for music and finding the perfect man. What can happen during a luncheon where the tastes of both women coincide and clash, while in the presence of two desirable men? ...

Chronically Unfeasible (2000)

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes. ...

Vida e Obra de Ramiro Miguez (2000)

A painter is found dead with a gun in his hand, in his shabby studio in Lapa, a bohemian district in Rio de Janeiro. A brief note is published on a newspaper and, from then on, he becomes a national sensation. ...

Castro Alves - Retrato Falado do Poeta (1999)

Anahy de las Misiones (1997)

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead. ...

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 ...

Corpo em Delito (1990)

During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of the regime. ...

Land (1987)

The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are contemplating taking up arms. A stranger arrives who provides an answer to their plight. ...

The Dolphin (1987)

According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Dolphin, who transforms into a human to seduce and be loved by women and hated by men. One of her conquests is the daughter of ...

The Emerald Forest (1985)

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventu ...

Pasárgada (2024)

Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses herself in a sensory journey to rescue her desires, facing her dilemmas that confront the illegal trafficking of wild birds. ...

Mulheres no Poder (2016)

A corrupt senator, Maria Pilar sees a great opportunity to win in the bidding process for the Brasil Brasileiro project. After contacting Minister Ivone Feitosa in search of more information, Maria is told to talk to the ministry's executive secretary, Mad ...

Hey, Did You Score? (2012)

Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing. ...

Celeste e Estrela (2005)

While waiting for her at the airport, a film critic recounts to a receptionist how he met his great love, Celeste. ...

Louise's Wedding (2001)

Two women, from opposite worlds, Louise and her maid Luzia, both share a passion for music and finding the perfect man. What can happen during a luncheon where the tastes of both women coincide and clash, while in the presence of two desirable men? ...