Xandó Batista

The Brazilwood Man (1982)

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half. ...

Erotic Stories (1980)

Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lod ...

Stories Our Nannies Don't Tell (1979)

Erotic spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ...

Rain Lovers (1979)

A curious story: it rains whenever a couple of lovers meet. Against the weather forecast, it rains all over the city. And as the love grows, the stronger becomes the rain. Found by a television crew, they receive the title of "Rain Lovers", and their dates ...

A Noite dos Duros (1978)

A Casa das Tentações (1977)

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício. ...

O Sexualista (1977)

Fábio, a mediocre and broke writer, is evicted for unpaid rent and even ends up in jail after a police raid on a brothel. His life changes when he unexpectedly inherits the fortune of his wealthy uncle Casemiro — only for the old man to recover soon aft ...

Tiradentes, O Mártir da Independência (1977)

O Seminarista (1977)

Eugênio falls in love for Margarida, a poor girl who lives in his parents' farm. In order to avoid their love affair, the parents send him to a Catholic Seminary to be a priest. Just before his ordination, he meets Margarida again, and their old feelings ...

Fruto Proibido (1976)

Accused of raping and killing five women, Rodolfo is convicted of the crimes. ...

Chão Bruto (1976)

O Predileto (1975)

Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after mov ...

Efigênia Dá Tudo Que Tem (1975)

Trote de Sádicos (1974)

Desafio à Aventura (1972)

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. ...

The Kiss (1965)

When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss tha ...

Mord in Rio (1963)

Barbara Leen owns a coffee export company based in Rio de Janeiro. The company has long since been infiltrated by smugglers, without Barbara knowing about it. The criminals are smuggling diamonds. Barbara's boyfriend is a journalist and tries to get to the ...

O Preço da Vitória (1959)

Rebelião em Vila Rica (1957)

Candinho (1954)

Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother. ...

Luz Apagada (1953)

On a small coastal town, a light-keeper lives in total seclusion after his wife's passing. His daughter is also there and she becomes his only contact with the other locals, and when a helper is sent to assist him on duties, she asks a childhood friend of ...

Uma Pulga na Balança (1953)

Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives. ...

Nadando em Dinheiro (1952)

Isidoro, a poor guy, suddenly becomes a millionaire, and gets into the most bizarre situations. ...

Sai da Frente (1952)

Isidoro Colepicula is a humble truck driver hired to transport some furniture from São Paulo to Santos, in his worn out truck he calls "Anastácio". Hiding among the pieces travels a bride who's trying to escape her own marriage. With his dog Coroné, he ...

Appassionata (1952)

Sílvia Nogalis, a renowned concert pianist, prefers her career to her marriage. On the night she performs Beethoven's "Appassionata", she learns of the death of her husband, maestro Walter Hauser. ...

Angela (1951)

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation. ...