Rubens de Falco

Helena Meirelles - A Dama da Viola (2004)

Sonhos Tropicais (2001)

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt. ...

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)

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

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1996)

In the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosius, newly arrived at the village, pities the girl but his interest in her unleashes the jealousy of Rochus and the conflict between passion and celibacy beg ...

La hora Texaco (1985)

Set against the turbulent backdrop of Venezuela's oil industry on the cusp of nationalization, La hora Texaco follows the Montoya family as they struggle with internal crises amid social change. The father, a skilled oilworker, sinks into depression; the m ...

Profesión: vivir (1985)

Existential confrontations are unleashed while people try to survival within a concret jungle. Such conflict gets worst when the person is near his fifties and finds himself empty-handed, without a real company, full of frustrations that hound him. ...

Macho y hembra (1984)

Thirty-three years old Eva begins the writing of her memories and recalls her past love-life, when she used to live with her boyfriend and her best ladyfriend. In the beginning everything seems to work beetween them but after living together for some time ...

Pixote (1980)

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they sta ...

Dracula, a Love Story (1980)

Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments ...

Os Foragidos da Violência (1979)

Colonel Delmiro Gouveia (1979)

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company. ...

A Dama de Branco (1978)

A man returning from a trip is invited to stay in his best friend's residence. There, he meets the man's wife and soon a love affair begins. With a great sense of enthusiasm he shares to his friend that he's deeply in love with a woman he just met, creatin ...

Encarnação (1978)

Esse Rio Muito Louco (1977)

O Homem da Cabeça de Ouro (1976)

Alberto and Daniel are friends with opposite tempers. Alberto is a family man, two childrens, and keep his love affairs in the shadows. Daniel is not discreet at all and after unsuccessfully tries to conquers Lurdinha, Alberto's secretary and his former mi ...

Nós, Os Canalhas (1975)

Two twin brothers, Cláudio José and José Cláudio, definitively separate when one of them decides to leave for the big city. Years later, the second brother also started living in Rio de Janeiro. One night, he is attacked by three thugs, who kill his pr ...

O Sósia da Morte (1975)

A professor faces a double of himself and hires a detective to find out who that is and what are his real intentions. ...

Deixa, Amorzinho... Deixa (1975)

Dino and Dalmo are twin brothers. Dino is very shy, and the other, the opposite: a true Don Juan. When Dalmo dies, after being shot by a furious husband, he is received in heaven by a Club of Don Juans. But, in order to be admitted, he must go back to Eart ...

O Mau-Caráter (1974)

A man leads a double life: during the day, he's the manager of a car shop but, when the sun goes down, he becomes a crook, pretending to be a playboy (the target being old women), a sultan who is gathering money for his cause, helped by a fake baron and hi ...

Café na Cama (1973)

In order to become an actress, young woman tries many jobs, but in all those places she finds a man trying to have sex with her. ...

A Difícil Vida Fácil (1972)

Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is drugged and raped while some photographs are taken, to be presently used as blackmail, to force her to work as ...

Missão: Matar! (1972)

A professional hitman returns to Brazil and is hired to eliminate an Argentine Delegate in a Rio de Janeiro convention. Inspector José da Silva realizes the plot and starts to pursuit him. ...

Uma Pantera em Minha Cama (1971)

Womanizing dentist takes his wife for a vacation in Petrópolis, Brazil. In their hotel, a woman dressed in white visits the room of a different man each night, causing trouble. ...

Angels and Demons (1969)

A young woman and her lover draw an unsuspecting lawyer into their plan to kill her rich uncle and stay with his fortune. ...

Time of Violence (1969)

Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals. ...

O Impossível Acontece (1969)

Anthology comedy made by the director of "The Given Word" among other directors. ...

The Man Who Bought the World (1968)

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape. ...

Essa Gatinha é Minha (1966)

The troubled life of two idols of the Jovem Guarda amidst the pleasant rhythm of the contagious iê-iê-iê. ...

Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta (1966)

After marrying everyday man Zózimo, Engraçadinha, who had been through intense sexual experiences as a teenager, settles to live a quiet and normal life. As the years go by, her teenage daughter's behaviour seems to call back Engraçadinha's own teenage ...

Moral em Concordata (1959)

Rosario is a prostitute who lives in her married sister's house. When the latter wants to be a hooker too, she doesn't approve. ...

O Capanga (1957)