Zezé Motta

Alma Negra, do Quilombo ao Baile (2026)

Milton Gonçalves, Além do Espetáculo (2025)

This biopic documents the life and work of one of Brazil's most prolific artists: Milton Gonçalves. This actor and director are credited with more than sixty television titles, seventy movies and twenty plays. Known from classic full-length features like ...

The Son of a Thousand Men (2025)

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets. ...

Abah and His Band (2025)

A kingdom of fruits. A king with no strength to keep ruling. An orphan prince who does not accept his fate. A world at imminent risk. These are some of the ingredients of Abah, an adventure movie full of humor, in which we can follow the young Pineapple pr ...

Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil (2025)

A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greatest art ...

Othelo The Great (2024)

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and racism, he built a stellar career, facing controversy yet using it to challenge prejudice. ...

Tributo: Zezé Motta (2024)

Príncipe Lu e a Lenda do Dragão (2024)

Heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Lucebra, Prince Lu lives carefreely, playing pranks on his family and friends. However, according to legend, when he turns 18, he will confront the mysterious Evil Dragon and save the people of Middle Earth. Despite the ...

If I'm Here It Is by Mystery (2024)

New Rio, 2054 AD. The Order of Truth wreaks havoc on the streets, killing every being that has special powers. Renowned witch Dahlia is determined to beat the Order and assembles a clan of trans and queer people, each with their own supernatural talent. Th ...

Wedding Games (2023)

When Alex and Eva choose to exchange vows at the very spot they first crossed paths, a series of hilarious missteps derails their journey to the altar. ...

Falas da Vida: Histórias (Im)possíveis (2023)

Gerson King Combo – O filme (2023)

Deixa (2023)

Carmen lives her last day of freedom before her husband leaves prison. ...

Eulália (2023)

A simple woman finds herself trapped in a toxic marriage, living a daily journey of submission and unhappiness. With few social ties and no future prospects, she looks for a job to become independent. ...

Gota D'Água (2023)

The Last Party (2023)

'The Last Party' is a young romantic comedy that follows a group of four friends at their high school graduation party. Each protagonist with their love dilemma to solve throughout the night, all connected by the issues of this generation. It's their last ...

Na Rédea Curta (2022)

Júlio was raised only by his mother. Now, at the age of twenty, he discovers that it will be his turn to be a father, and that's why he decides to go after the father he's never seen. ...

Fim de Semana no Paraíso Selvagem (2022)

Rejane returns to her hometown, Paraíso, in search of answers to her brother's murder. ...

Fio do Afeto (2022)

Thousands of Brazilian women have contributed to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to a solidarity network of mask making and donations. Eight women seamstresses - quilombolas, indigenous, riverside, and peripheral - reveal how they came toget ...

Alemão 2 (2022)

The Alemão community in Rio de Janeiro is known for its high crime rate. Once again, a team faces drug trafficking to try to carry out the proposals inside the complex. ...

Intervenção (2021)

Larissa competed for the Rio Military Police in search of the ideal of "protecting the citizen". ...

Galeria Futuro (2021)

Valentim, Kodak and Eddie have known each other since they were little and are shopkeepers at Galeria Futuro, a shopping center in Copacabana that boasted luxury and pomp in its past, and which today, is nothing more than a sad and decaying place. Full of ...

Falas da Vida (2021)

Prateados: A Vida em Tempos de Madureza (2021)

Dr. Gama (2021)

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's ...

4x100: Running for a Dream (2021)

The women's athletics (4x100m relay) is about to win a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games, the Brazilian victory is almost certain and the athletes are one step closer to what would be a milestone. If only one fatal error hadn't put off their dreams: the ...

Novo Mundo (2020)

A paradise for the eyes, the phrase defines the character's destination place, A Terra Sem Males. After walking through forests and ruins, she realizes that that territory was built on the blood of many peoples. This knowledge could paralyze her, create ...

Todas as Melodias (2020)

"Todas as Melodias" is a sensible journey throught the life and works of one of Brazilian music's biggest artists, Luiz Melodia. Featuring archive footage that goes back to the 1970s, the film presents the musician's cronology from his youth in the neighbo ...

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European invasion of the continent, police violence, the genocide of the black people, the massacre of indigenous peop ...

Women's Cinema (2020)

Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break with oppression, look after precious archives, play remarkable characters, produce and direct successful fi ...

Juntos a Magia Acontece (2019)

The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date. ...

M8 - When Death Rescues Life (2019)

When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection. ...

Eu Sou Brasileiro (2019)

Pressed, Ripped Apart (2019)

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? 'Pressed, Ripped Apart' makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited pres ...

The Devil's Knot (2018)

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns ...

A Comédia Divina (2017)

The Devil himself comes to Earth to open his own church and the world becomes a pandemonium of delights and confusions. Based on a short story by Machado de Assis, the most famous realistic Brazilian writer of the XIX century. ...

Cora Coralina: Todas as Vidas (2017)

All the lives of Cora Coralina in a poetic narrative in the voices, feelings and interpretations of six generations of great Brazilian actresses. A polyphony of the voices that inhabited Cora, revealed in prose, verse and images with its immense literary t ...

Pitanga (2016)

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and ...

Haroldo Costa - O Nosso Orfeu (2015)

Dois de Julho — Guerra da Independência na Bahia (2015)

Irmã Dulce (2014)

Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the "Good Angel of Bahia", also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an in ...

O Lucro Acima da Vida (2014)

Fiction based on a true story of Brazilian workers and people living near a pesticide plant, first owned by Shell and then by BASF, that suffered cancers and other severe health problems as a result of land and groundwater contamination around the plant an ...

Gonzaga: From Father to Son (2012)

Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complicati ...

Bróder (2010)

Three childhood friends plan meeting for a day in order to reassert their friendships and fight for their differences. One of them is involved with crime, one is a famous football player and the other struggles to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. ...

Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess (2009)

Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together ...

Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas (2009)

A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil. ...

A Ilha dos Escravos (2008)

After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they ...

Cobrador: In God We Trust (2007)

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored. ...

Happy Desert (2007)

Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him. ...

Kinshasa Palace (2006)

The filmmaker searches for his brother Max, who left his children without explanation. The brothers grew up in the Congo with their white father and Congolese mother. He visits their mother, who still lives in Kinshasa, and their father in Lisbon, as well ...

The Invisible Friend (2006)

Bom Dia, Eternidade (2006)

What Is It Worth? (2005)

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil. ...

Xuxa and The Treasure of the Lost City (2004)

Deep in the Amazon rain forest, there is a lost subterranean city. The place was built by Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured up the Amazon River, and shelters a mysterious treasure. In order to find the secret location, Bárbara and the ch ...

A Idade do Homem (2004)

Viva Sapato! (2003)

A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her ...

The Longing (2003)

Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. ...

Xuxa and the Elves 2: The Road of The Fairies (2002)

Kira, a botanist who is also the daughter of elves, must fight the evil wicked witch Algaz. In her quest, Kira will be helped by Epifania, agood witch, elf Daphnis and even Queen Dara, the fairy mother. ...

Poeta de Sete Faces (2002)

Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work. ...

Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino (2002)

A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro's most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro. ...

Denying Brazil (2000)

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyses race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling att ...

Chronically Unfeasible (2000)

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes. ...

Orfeu (1999)

Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives. ...

Polêmica (1999)

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

Napomuceno's Will (1997)

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". ...

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)

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

Tieta of Agreste (1996)

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order. ...

Era Uma Vez... (1994)

Sant'Anna dos Pescadores (1993)

Vênus de Fogo (1993)

A Serpente (1992)

Two sisters are newly married; Guida to Paulo and Lígia to Décio. They spend their honeymoon in the apartment, a gift from the father of the brides. They will live there. Just a wall separating the intimacy of the two couples. Guida and Paulo are very ha ...

Extraterrestrial Cat in Boots (1990)

A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard. ...

Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda! (1990)

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel undervalued by ...

Better Days Ahead (1989)

Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star. ...

As Divas Negras do Cinema Brasileiro (1989)

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the Brazilian artistic world. Starring actresses Zezé Motta, Ruth de Souza, Léa Garcia, Zenaide Zen and Adele F ...

Sonhos de Menina Moça (1988)

Iolanda, a widow who is the matriarch of a large and complicated family, is the hostess of a large party in a mansion that brings back many memories. The celebration is marked by a barbecue with lots of gossip and fun among old friends. ...

Natal da Portela (1988)

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro. ...

Prisoner of Rio (1988)

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs. ...

Jubiabá (1987)

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador. ...

Angels of the Night (1987)

Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, a drag queen; Teddy, a hustler; Guto, a gay reporter; and Marta, an actress. ...

Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman (1987)

The life and work of Zezé Motta. ...

Quilombo (1984)

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a ...

Para Viver Um Grande Amor (1984)

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes ...

Águia na Cabeça (1984)

A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power structure resents this disturbance and can fall apart, specially since there's a witness. ...

Mulher 80 (1979)

Mulher 80 emerged as a result of the success of 'Malu Mulher' (1979), a miniseries starring Regina Duarte, which addressed the female situation in Brazilian society at that time. The main focus of the special was the female presence in music, honouring the ...

Everything's Alright (1978)

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell. ...

O Bom Marido (1978)

An industrial couple spends more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Afraninho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign executives, in which the product is his own wife Malu. They succeed, and soon other couples start doing the s ...

Os melhores Momentos da Pornochanchada (1978)

The troubles of a separated couple, the adventures of a bookseller in the home of a lascivious woman, and the confusion of a businessman from São Paulo. ...

Bloody Gold (1978)

The son of a millionaire who owns gold mines in Transopia, Africa, Antoine Leblanc, who lives in a mansion in Rio, one day receives a letter from his father asking him for help against the gold smugglers from Transopia to Brazil. ...

Cordão de Ouro (1977)

The Force of Xango (1977)

Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects for many children. But time passes and Tonho returns to being the womanizer he had always been. Zulmira, daughter ...

Xica da Silva (1976)

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power. ...

Um Varão Entre as Mulheres (1975)

The Devil Queen (1974)

Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot agains ...

A Banana Mecânica (1974)

Dr. Ferrão, a famous psychoanalyst, uses his daily column on a newspaper to atract women to his practice. ...

Go To Work You Bum! (1973)

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players. ...

Cleo e Daniel (1970)

A young and sensitive couple's impossible love affair. ...

Em Cada Coração um Punhal (1970)

A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man becomes a sex symbol after an advertising campaign. ...

Transplante de Mãe (1970)