Lucélia Santos

The Erection of Toribio Bardelli (2023)

After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief. ...

Paula (2021)

Psuchological drama about a sucessful businesswoman who has not overcame ghosts of her past. ...

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. ...

Mulher Oceano (2020)

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those ...

Selvagem (2020)

Sofia has a very clear goal: pass the entrance exam, find a job and leave home. However, when the school where she studies is occupied by her friends and classmates, she finds herself in a dilemma between continuing to study alone or sharing her knowledge ...

Amazon - The Awakening of Florestania (2018)

Aiming to address how the environment has been mistreated since the beginning of the 20th century, the production brings back historical characters and compiles testimonies from representatives of diverse groups related to the theme. ...

Alguém Acaba de Morrer Lá Fora (2017)

The Serpent (2016)

Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister's suicide, Guida ...

Casa Grande (2014)

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes ...

Uma Visita a Holliweger (2010)

An obsessed nun is accused of setting fire to an orphanage and killing more than 50 children in the late 1960s. Some time later, the macabre past returns, bringing to light the last of the secrets. ...

Lula, the Son of Brazil (2010)

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history. ...

As Cartas de Chico Xavier (2004)

Three people accused of murder who were pardoned by the parents of the victims and acquitted by Justice thanks to the letters psychographed by the medium Chico Xavier. ...

The Egg (2003)

Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken. ...

3 Histórias da Bahia (2001)

O Sonho de Rose: 10 Anos Depois (2000)

Documentary depicting what happened to the characters in the film Terra para Rose, made by the same director. Shows the life of some 1500 families of landless rural laborers who, for the first time in 1985, occupied an unproductive large landholding, the A ...

Dib (1997)

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema. ...

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema. ...

Vagas para Moças de Fino Trato (1993)

In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promisc ...

Kuarup (1989)

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the ...

Terra Para Rose (1987)

Documentary about the oppression of a group of a families of the MST, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1985, and Rose, a woman fighting for the right of owning a land and ...

Fonte da Saudade (1987)

The Seven Vampires (1986)

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show. ...

Baixo Gávea (1986)

Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the actresses is the lesbian Ana, who interprets the poet Mário de Sá Carneiro. She is Clara's friend and conf ...

Patriamada (1985)

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. ...

Luz Del Fuego (1982)

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law. ...

Cute But Ordinary (1981)

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family's honor. ...

Family Album (1981)

Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century. ...

Engraçadinha (1981)

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with ...

O Ibraim do Subúrbio (1977)

A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV station; Casimiro de Abreu de Sousa lives in a fantasy world in which he imagines himself to be part of high ...

Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente (1976)

Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tatt ...

Paranóia (1976)

Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family. ...

Um Brasileiro Chamado Rosaflor (1976)

The Serpent (2016)

Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister's suicide, Guida ...

Timor Lorosae (2001)

The situation in East Timor, a year after the ballot that decided its independence. ...