Ricardo Costa

Virgínia e Adelaide (2025)

Adelaide and Virgínia met in 1937, a year after the German arrived in Brazil, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews, where she came with her husband and two daughters. Together, they founded and popularized psychoanalysis in Brazil, breaking down barri ...

Siso (2024)

Shortly after undergoing a procedure to remove his wisdom teeth, a young man goes through a torturous recovery period, where he will face strange sensations. ...

His Body (2024)

On the last days of soul in Rio de Janeiro — Groove is everywhere in the night —, and Carlos and Tony have unfinished business. A tribute to Blaxploitation, the queer horror jam "His Body" chronicles the supernatural meeting of two ex-lovers on a night ...

Motherboard (2024)

Nadi is an android with citizenship, who earns the right to adopt two children. However, a sensationalist politician, brings up several controversies about the case, in order to gain popularity for his candidacy for Senate president. ...

Uma Carta para Papai Noel (2023)

Chef Jack: The Adventurous Cook (2023)

Chef Jack and his assistant Leonard will travel through the Culinary Islands to participate in the biggest gastronomic competition in the world and, thus, try to defeat their opponents. ...

Beyond Ourselves (2022)

Leo is a young ranch hand who has never left his small community, located in southern Brazil, until he is faced with the need to fulfill his father's last wish. He travels to Rio de Janeiro with his uncle Arthur who he isn't very close to. During the trip, ...

Vai Dar Nada (2022)

Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back. ...

The Broken Glass Theory (2021)

Claudio is promoted to policy coordinator in his insurance company, but he has to move to a remote small town for the position, and after arriving numerous cars begin to be set on fire. Claudio is pressured to cover the cars' insurance in a hostile environ ...

Loop (2019)

After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel then gives up ...

Rend Your Heart (2018)

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son. ...

Quem É Primavera das Neves (2017)

The starting point is an unlikely name, Primavera das Neves, a translator of Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe and Julio Verne, who disappeared without a trace in the 1960s. Could it be a pseudonym? The search for a name found an extraordinary woman and a life d ...

A Matter of Courage (2016)

Hermano is a doctor who plans to climb a dangerous mountain. He feels guilty about the death of his best friend and needs a test of courage. But Hermano's wife reveals that she is pregnant and he needs to make a decision. ...

Vento (2016)

S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 2 (2015)

Afraid her husband will fall back with his ex girlfriend after they're assigned to work together, Adriana and her sister set sail to the U.S. to go after him to stop this from happening. ...

True Beauty (2015)

A photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town. ...

Entreturnos (2014)

Beto is a bus conductor married to Gilda, who longs to have a child. When Beto gets closer to Leia, owner of his favorite bar, he meets Valcir, a newcomer who completes the love triangle that results in pregnancy. Amid the difficulties in dealing with this ...

Tattoo (2013)

Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship ...

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. ...

Le mystère Atlit Yam - 10 000 ans sous les mers (2013)

Sweet Mother (2012)

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she ...

180 Degrees (2011)

Anna, Russell and Bernardo, 3 middle class brazilians involved in a game of passions between the autorship of a succesful book. ...

Heleno (2011)

José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil's 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de Freitas. T ...

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. ...