The adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He leaves his hometown Belo Horizonte to share a...

In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constant threat of sexual violence coming from the...

Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by...

Sérgio Mallandro is chosen by an alien to be the one to receive special powers to do good. But before that he must prove his worth and kind heart...

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as...

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the...

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of...

The Robin Hood from the movie The Trapalhões and his pack ruin the plans of a farmer named João Climério. He wanted to take the lands of his...

A successful writer in a creative crisis lives with her characters and others who do not know what dimension they live in.

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.

Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure from the pioneers, and end up going back two...

The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished...

Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the...