Lui Mendes

Atena (2025)

Athena was abused by her father during her childhood. Years later, without answers and marked by the absence of justice, she decides to take matters into her own hands in similar cases in the city where she lives. With the help of journalist Carlos, she tr ...

The Black Belt - The True History of Fernando Tererê (2022)

Five-time Jiu-jitsu world champion, Tererê won almost every battle he faced on the tatami mats, but it was far from them that he suffered his worst defeat. ...

Solteira Quase Surtando (2020)

The Inventor of Dreams (2013)

Centered on two young boys, an aristocrat and a native, chronicles the period in which Brazil went from colony to the center of the Portuguese Empire. ...

400 Against 1: A History of Organized Crime (2010)

The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership in the ...

Streets of Rio (2008)

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in this way, help his family to have a better life. Although he is the best player in his neighborhood and the ...

The Inheritance (2001)

Reunited for their mother's funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expe ...

Daughters of Yemanjá (1995)

A woman named Sini travels to Brazil to meet her sister Sissi, who previously broke off Sin's marriage. Sini meets Sissi's husband, Jorge, who tells her that she has disappeared. Sini sets out to find Sissi together with Jorge's servant Tiago. ...

Os Trapalhões e a Árvore da Juventude (1991)

Didi, Dedé, Mussum (Mussum) and Zacarias are forest rangers that they work in the Amazon rain forest where they fight the action of smugglers with the aid of Juliana, a beautiful engineer. There are many funny scenes where they find the mythical source of ...