Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...

UFO falls on a hillbilly's hencoop and he tries to sell it. Soon international missions are sent to the place, for there's a suspicion it might be...

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

A misogynist and shabby farmer, brother of other three goofy hillbillies leaves to the big city searching for a wife and wins the heart of a hot...

A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure.

The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's...

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

Industrialist's son returns from the USA, where he'd been supposedly studying Nuclear Physics, when in fact he'd devoted himself to pop music...

Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One...

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful...

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

The film narrates the adventures of the trickster Juca Moleza in the carnival while he has to deal with the consequences of the scams he applied to...

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Three segments with stories about the sexual relationships between adolescent boys and the maids who work at their homes.

Three young women sharing a room in a boarding house owned by a very strict matron dream of becoming famous in show busines