
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman...
Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman...
A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he...
A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some...
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
O Descobrimento do Brasil (The Discovery of Brazil) is an impressive historical epic recreating Álvares Cabral’s voyage to the New World...
Coronel Januário's goddaughter, Maria Fausta, is having a secret affair with João do Carmo. While her godfather is engaged in his...
Lelita, a rich young lady, is courted by Paulo, her cousin, but she has reason to believe he is also having na affair with Lelita's sister, which...
A young man from Rio who, down on his luck in the capital, takes a job as manager of a sugar mill in the country, where he finds love with the mill...
When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her...
In Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto (Celso Guimarães) is a talented artisan engaged of Marina (Lídia Mattos), working in a pottery factory. He...
Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da...
Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for...
The film demonstrates all stages of production of the yellow fever vaccine that took place in the Yellow Fever Service laboratory of the Rockefeller...
At the Rockefeller Foundation, the rat colony for experiments with viruses and antibodies in humans. In Ilha dos Macacos, next to the Oswaldo Cruz...
A documentary-tribute to the filmmaker Humberto Mauro considered the pioneer of Brazilian and Latin American cinema, directed by his grandnephew,...
A look at the now abandoned production farms, substituted by power plants.
A cinematographic interpretation of a Casimiro de Abreu poem.
Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal...
An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.