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Os Bons da Boca (2009)

Ritinha (2001)

O Vigilante (1992)

An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood. ...

Meu Homem, Meu Amante (1984)

O Filho Adotivo (1984)

Tzubra Tzuma (1983)

A bird-shaped nave flies over various places with different beliefs and religions. ...

Colegiais e Lições do Sexo (1980)

The principal of a school turns the classroom into a studio and makes his students porn film actors to be displayed in the motels of his property. At school, the principal sells grades and diplomas, not interested in academic performance. ...

Curumim (1980)

Veneta (1980)

The proletariat are exploited by the bourgeoisie inside a gigantic robot-building. The situation gets worse and worse until, one day, they decide to take action. ...

Viúvas Precisam de Consolo (1979)

O Milagre - O Poder da Fé (1979)

O Outro Lado do Crime (1979)

Devil Nymphs (1978)

Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and death. ...

O Conto do Vigário (1977)

The Delights of Life (1974)

Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role. ...

Cordélia, Cordélia (1971)

Tired of her boring husband, secretary Cordélia finds refuge in a love affair with her boss and afterwards, believes she has found true love in the person of a car salesman. ...

Cleo e Daniel (1970)

A young and sensitive couple's impossible love affair. ...

O Quarto (1968)

A middle-aged man copes with the loss of his job and his impending blindness. ...

A Batalha dos Sete Anos (1968)

Investigation into the seven years that followed the closure of Companhia Vera Cruz, in 1955, which marked a period of crisis for national film production in Brazil. ...

The Corinthian (1967)

Manuel is a fanatical barber for a São Paulo soccer team, Corinthians, and that's why he always gets into trouble with his neighbors and family. ...

As Cariocas (1966)

Divided into three episodes based on stories by Stanislaw Ponte Preta (Sérgio Porto), the film portrays three young people from Rio de Janeiro: a furious lover, a beautiful beachgoer, and a former beauty queen. All live in profound solitude amid the appar ...

Mário Gruber (1966)

The Island (1963)

A millionaire invites some friends for a weekend on an island, where some say there is a buried treasure. But a storm takes the boat away, and they stay isolated from the rest of the world. In these conditions, everybody starts to show their real nature an ...

O Cabeleira (1963)

Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil. ...

Terra Sem Deus (1963)

Zé do Periquito (1961)

Zenó (Mazzaropi) is a poor gardener of a traditional school in São Paulo who falls in love with one of the local girls, much richer and younger than him. Willing to conquer her, he decides to get rich, getting involved in the most varied and funny situat ...

As Aventuras de Pedro Malasartes (1960)

It is the story of Pedro, who after being passed over by his brothers, wanders the world in search of a better life, but on the way, finds children who eventually conquer it, and in order to help them, he passes scamming other people he met along the way, ...

Conceição (1960)

An engaged couple discovers the corpse of a woman killed by strangulation in the Santo Amaro dam. Inspector Castro and his assistant, Pedro, start the investigation, collecting testimonies, and find a phone number with the name Conceição in the victim's ...

O Pão Que o Diabo Amassou (1957)

A ruthless loan shark doesn't realize the evil that he has done to his own family: his son is waist-deep in resentment, and his daughter- married to an unsuccessful lawyer - ends up prostituting herself. ...

Na Ilha (2019)

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes. ...

When The Marquees' Lights Go Out (2018)

With archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, a story of movie theaters that were located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyda ...

Mazzaropi (2013)

A documentary on the life and work of Amácio Mazzaropi, a phenomenon of popularity and profitability of Brazilian cinema. ...

The First Time of Brazilian Cinema (2013)

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. ...

Reparation (2010)

In 1968, Orlando Lovecchio was made victim of a guerilla's bomb terrorist attack, which main objective was to fight against the Military Regime. Orlando lost one leg after the world-reckoned attack against the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo. ...

O Cineasta das Platéias (2002)

This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show. ...