Severino Dadá

A Nave de Mané Socó (2020)

Revoada (2015)

Marajó: A Origem das Águas (2010)

Film started in 1991, interrupted due to technical problems and finished in 2010. The camera travels along the banks of the Amazon, focusing on the diversity of virgin flora. Walks among trails of kindling culminating in the folkloric march of Marajoara rh ...

Geraldo José - O Som Sem Barreira (2003)

The story of the most famous sound technician in cinema and television in Brazil, known as the "noise-man". ...

O Galante Rei da Boca (2003)

Documentary about the trajectory of Antônio Polo Galante, known as "The King of Boca". The film maps work and forms of production in Boca do Lixo, popular area in Luz neighborhood located downtown São Paulo, where usually night clubs and sexual services ...

Polêmica (1999)

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista. ...

Castelos de Vento (1998)

A brief story about the power of the wind: it erases lines, destroys houses and carries people. The blow that creates men, uniting them or separating them. ...

Corisco & Dadá (1996)

Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they ter ...

O Capeta Carybé (1996)

A Saga do Guerreiro Alumioso (1993)

Aroeiras is a fictional city in the northeastern interior of Brazil where Genésio lives. Old, widowed, retired and childless, he fills his loneliness drinking and dreaming of the nostalgic heroism of cangaceiros (northeastern outlaws) and the love of Ros� ...

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1991)

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes. ...

Welles' Language (1990)

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission. Although being turned down by Hollywood producers, he developed a triumphantly accomplished mission in ...

Abolition (1988)

In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his country. This documentary provides an in-depth look through extensive archival researching and interviews of key figures ...

Johnny Love (1988)

A photographer falls in love with a rock singer. ...

Fugindo do Passado (1987)

São João em Santa Cruz (1987)

Estrelas de Celulóide (1986)

It's Not All True (1986)

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True. ...

Sulanca (1986)

The Feira da Sulanca still exists as a famous market in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil, that sells and exports items for the national clothing industry. While these markets were once an unfriendly place for women, who were struggling to make a living, Ka ...

Olinda Só Riso (1986)

A Resistência da Lua (1985)

A Terra Queima (1984)

Longa Noite do Prazer (1983)

Two criminal friends pick up two women. ...

Ikátena (1983)

Dinner of Sexual Desires (1982)

Gregor Nastase, just arrived from Transylvania, comes to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, to meet Vladmir Vladislav, a young sculptor who is Count Dracula's direct descendant. He tells him he must capture four women for a sacrifice, according to his uncle's wishes. ...

Aniceto do Império: Dia de Alforria (1981)

Zózimo Bulbul's film is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares and to all Maroons dead and alive. ...

Boi de Prata (1981)

Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José M ...

The Seven Kittens (1980)

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back from boarding school after killing a female cat and her seven newborns in a h ...

Semear (1980)

Batalha dos Guararapes (1978)

In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer, João Fernandes Vieira, sees himself in the middle of a conflict, torn between joining his friend Mauricio de Nassa ...

Paulo Moura (1978)

Na Ponta da Faca (1977)

Adventures of a migrant who comes from Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, where he meets a prostitute. ...

Tent of Miracles (1977)

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only th ...

A$$untina of the Amerikas (1976)

A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spen ...

Um Brasileiro Chamado Rosaflor (1976)

Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança (1975)

Teatro Brasileiro: Novas Tendências (1975)

The Amulet of Ogum (1974)

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum's blessings. As time goes by, he becomes a valuable member of a mobster's hit-team, but en ...

Queima de Arquivo (1967)

O Cangaceiro da Moviola (2023)

A Nave de Mané Socó (2020)

The Divine Luz del Fuego (2017)

A documentary about Luz del Fuego, the naturist dancer who shook the moral foundations of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1940s and early 1950s with her transgressive way of life. ...

Que Cavação é Essa? (2008)

A short film that emulates the activities of early Brazilian filmmakers known as "cavadores". ...

O Galante Rei da Boca (2003)

Documentary about the trajectory of Antônio Polo Galante, known as "The King of Boca". The film maps work and forms of production in Boca do Lixo, popular area in Luz neighborhood located downtown São Paulo, where usually night clubs and sexual services ...

Lara (2002)

The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life. ...

Tent of Miracles (1977)

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only th ...

Sweet Thieves (1977)

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira. ...