Teca Pereira

Drenched in Blood (2026)

After his father's death, Gabriel leaves for Armação Beach in search of his origins. What he ends up finding is a complex plot around the mysterious figure of his grandfather, a whale skeleton and a city that wants to bury the past at any cost. ...

Old Bandits (2026)

An elderly retired couple teams up with young partners to plan a daring bank robbery, while trying to outwit a detective determined to stop them. ...

White House (2025)

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his t ...

A Redenção de Cam (2024)

SUNDOWN SYNDROME (2024)

Phantom Ladies Over Rio. Summer. Rio de Janeiro under possessions. Gay times. Sharks on attack. Claudete, a 64-year-old black woman, is facing a great dilemma: she only falls in love with gay men. ...

Saideira (2024)

Two sisters with very different personalities and who have not spoken with each other for years come together to fulfill their grandfather's last wish, a kind of wild treasure hunt that leads them to know their true history, helping them to grieve the suff ...

The Hijacking of Flight 375 (2023)

Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis. ...

Ritmo de Natal (2023)

TPM! Meu amor (2023)

Firmina (2023)

An elderly woman, when moving to her new apartment, is trapped and incommunicable. Upon hearing the cries for help coming from downstairs, she needs to race against time to save her neighbor. ...

Just Short of Perfect (2021)

A divorced lawyer falls for a charismatic cardiologist. But when their difference in size leads to family friction, is she ready to listen to her heart? ...

Marighella (2021)

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionar ...

All the Dead Ones (2020)

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times th ...

Êles (2019)

Divine Love (2019)

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana ...

Malasartes e o Duelo com a Morte (2017)

Small-town trickster Pedro Malasartes has to face two great enemies: Próspero, who will do anything to impede such a lazy, cowardly person like Malasartes from dating his sister, Áurea; and Death incarnated, who wants to take a vacation after two thousan ...

A Felicidade de Margô (2017)

After a stint with the police, Margô decides to tame her impetuous temper and adopt a different lifestyle in the metropolis of São Paulo, far from drugs and crime. Upon achieving her long-awaited promotion, an encounter with a law enforcement officer on ...

Opala Azul Negão (2017)

Maicon Douglas is in love with Silmara. One day her mother wakes up in bad health and Maicon needs to urgently take her to the hospital. Maicon calls his friends, everyone boards a Opala Azul Negão to try their luck in a city of contrasts. ...

Magal e os Formigas (2016)

Trash (2014)

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. ...

Father’s Chair (2012)

Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He's a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved me ...

The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga (2011)

Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a ...

O Bolo de Morango (2006)

Party (1989)

A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems like forever. They witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests loosen up. ...

Hysteries (1983)

Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha's "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the filmmaker's words this experimental short is about "the psychic suffering of women in a patriarchal society". ...