José Medeiros

The Story of Fausta (1988)

An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower. ...

A Matter of Honour (1988)

The teacher and the butcher of a small town in the tropical Andes, are both in love with the same woman (Miriam). They decide to duel for her. Everyone in town catch the notice, except of course for Miriam. The Mayor then decides to manipulate the event to ...

Jubiabá (1987)

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador. ...

Fugindo do Passado (1987)

It's Not All True (1986)

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

Cursed Love (1984)

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist. ...

Memories of Prison (1984)

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners. ...

Aniceto do Império: Dia de Alforria (1981)

Zózimo Bulbul's film is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares and to all Maroons dead and alive. ...

Maneco, o Super Tio (1979)

Maneco takes his nephews to spend his holidays at his grandfather's place. But the old scientist discovered a way to travel in time and got lost in the year 1926. Maneco and the boys will try to bring him back. ...

Parceiros da Aventura (1979)

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars. ...

Summer Showers (1978)

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age. ...

Fish in a Barrel (1977)

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets. ...

Ódio (1977)

The lawyer Roberto leaves his career and his fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his entire family in a brutal massacre. ...

Morte e Vida Severina (1977)

The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life. ...

Who Killed Pacifico? (1977)

Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing unites them: the three are suspected of having murdered Colonel Pacífico, the rich and powerful owner of the city of Parada de Deus, in the interior of th ...

O Seminarista (1977)

Eugênio falls in love for Margarida, a poor girl who lives in his parents' farm. In order to avoid their love affair, the parents send him to a Catholic Seminary to be a priest. Just before his ordination, he meets Margarida again, and their old feelings ...

Xica da Silva (1976)

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power. ...

Padre Cícero: Os Milagres de Juazeiro (1976)

O Caçador de Fantasma (1975)

A Cartomante (1975)

Who's Afraid of Werewolves? (1975)

Two young men in search of adventure meet Iracema, a bride who's been left waiting at the church. They give her a ride on their jeep, until they find the most strange family: a couple with seven girls and a son. According to popular tradition, a man born a ...

The Devil Queen (1974)

Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot agains ...

Go to Work You Bum! (1973)

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players. ...

O Fabuloso Fittipaldi (1973)

Documentary about race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi ...

Eu Transo, Ela Transa (1972)

Anxious to please his boss, Roberto agrees to host the chief's lover in his own home, unaware of the problems this could cause among his family. ...

Os Machões (1972)

Three young men from the beach neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro lead a carefree life, in spite of having no money. After meeting Denise, who presently turns out to be Dênis (a man), they start to learn some tricks and their lives begin to change. ...

Roberto Carlos a 300 Quilômetros por Hora (1971)

A mechanic who wants to become a race car pilot has his great opportunity when he has to take the place of another pilot who had suffered an accident. ...

Adventures with Uncle Manuelo (1971)

Three boys and their uncle venture into the Amazon jungle in search of their missing grandfather who's been kidnapped by evil space robots! ...

Em Família (1971)

Old couple are being evicted and turn to their five children for help. Since no one can accommodate the two of them, the children decide to separate the couple. ...

Pra Quem Fica, Tchau (1971)

Pra Quem Fica, Tchau tells the story of a teenager from the interior who comes to Rio, financed by an uncle, and goes to live with a womanizer cousin. ...

Faustão (1971)

A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique Pereira, son of Colonel Pereira, is wounded in an ambush. Faustão rescues him and demands the father to pay a ransom in e ...

A Vingança dos Doze (1970)

Roberto Carlos e o Diamante Cor-de-Rosa (1970)

A statuette bought in an antique shop in Tokyo may lead to the discovery of a great treasure. ...

Meu Nome é Lampião (1969)

Lampião's gang raids a farm just as the wedding of Antônio Saraiva and the Baroness's goddaughter is being prepared. In the shootout, Lampião's brother, Ezequiel, is killed, and in revenge, Lampião burns the Baroness alive and orders the bride to be be ...

Roberto Carlos, Looking for Adventure (1968)

While making a movie in Rio de Janeiro, the singer Roberto Carlos is kidnapped by an international gang that wants to make money with his songs in a computer, together with Pierre, the villain of the movie, and sent to New York. ...

Journey to the End of the World (1968)

During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction. ...

Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring (1967)

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled wit ...

Freedom of Press (1967)

A panel of Brazilian political scenery in 1967, alternating images of the main events and politicians and specialists' statements about freedom of the press. ...

A Public Opinion (1967)

Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1960s, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and the following dictatorship. Interviews with people in the street disclose their fears, aspirations ...

The Deceased (1965)

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde. ...

The Dare (1965)

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son. ...

Câncer (1972)

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society. ...

Entranced Earth (1967)

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conser ...

The Deceased (1965)

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde. ...