Nello Melli

In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer, João Fernandes Vieira, sees himself in the middle of a conflict, torn between joining his friend Mauricio de Nassau alongside the ruling Dutch and siding with his lover Ana Paes in the fight to free his homeland.

Adventures of a migrant who comes from Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, where he meets a prostitute.

A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed on a plane crash in 1972, discuss about her life, her work and her legacy in Brazilian culture.

A man who wanted to set an example to society promises a million dollars to his future daughter if she remains a virgin until she is 28 years old, but a boy is born and the challenge falls on him.

This film denounces the exploitation of natural resources by certain industries of extraction and transformation. This documentary is considered as the first Brazilian film on this theme.

An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilemma of integrating into the system or preserving individual freedom, the family moves toward disintegration as the city prepares to launch a space rocket.

Virgínia is an orphan teenager who lives with her rich uncle Marcos, whom she drugs with barbiturates to promote parties in the apartment for her friends. At these parties, which are attended by minors and are fueled by drugs and alcohol, she gets involved with the scammer and ruffian Paulo, a teenager who lives in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. She and Paulo end up in the police after sexually abusing other minors, but her uncle's lawyer, Henrique, manages to save them from being prosecuted. Pretending gratitude, Virginia approaches Henrique and, when her uncle takes her out of town, to get away from "bad company", she tells Henrique her plan: murder her uncle to keep his fortune. Henrique gets involved by the girl, not knowing that she, in fact, intends to blackmail him.

Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.

Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his.

Inspired by the life of one of the most famous policemen in the history of Brazil: detective Perpétuo de Freitas, immortalized in the annals of Brazilian criminal history for relentlessly pursuing and without the slightest assistance of the Rio police force one of the most wanted criminals in the country.

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the self-conscious antics of the French New Wave. The pampered son of a general, El Justicero is a hipster playboy who fancies himself a James Bond/Jean Paul Sartre urban hero. “Archetypical” yet “full of contradictions,” he sees that justice is achieved for the disadvantaged while taking advantage of certain bourgeois perks. His exploits are closely followed and eventually directed by his biographer who decides a film is not only more lucrative than a book, but it gives him the luxury of reviewing previous scenes. Unlike Bond, El Jus eventually experiences an awakening which threatens to compromise the entertainment value and glamour of his life story. - Harvard Film Archive

Single retired civil servant decides to return to his hometown to meet his first and only love. But the woman he finds is just a spectre of his memory.

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde. In poor health, Zulmira makes all the preparations for the day of her death and asks her unemployed husband to deal with the costs of the coffin and funeral with a man named João Guimarães Pimentel. What Tom doesn't know is that Zulmira and this man hide some secrets that he could never imagine.

Irma can only think about getting rid of her cowardly dirty husband. She seeks out lovers not to commit adultery or for pleasure, but to find an accomplice to kill her husband.

Documental sobre el jugador de fútbol del fútbol brasileño (algunos dicen que de la historia del fútbol) En el cenit de su carrera , mostrando escenas clásicas de 1958 y 1962 de la Copa Mundial . Garrincha era un jugador muy original y con mucho talento, con piernas curvas . Las mujeres y el alcohol eran su pasión, y la causa de su posterior decadencia. Después de una carrera gloriosa , que murió en la miseria financiera, olvidado.

Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.

Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.

Meus Amores no Rio is a thin romantic comedy about a young woman (Suzana Freyre) who wins a trip to Rio de Janeiro on a television quiz show. Being both young and attractive and excited about the city, she manages to enchant three different men. The first man to fall for her is a pilot, and then there is the journalist, and then a womanizer.... Each encounter reveals more of the city and its impressive vistas, a fourth important protagonist in this film.

Una actriz que llega al campo se enamora de un peón.

Una adolescente pretende convertirse en mujer enamorando a un actor francés borracho.

Historia de un productor de la época de los grandes estudios, en la que el cine de autor no tiene cabida.

A policeman goes on the trail of a smuggling gang whose boss wants his girlfriend.

El hijo de un empresario es fuertemente atraído por una corista de teatro de revistas.

During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.

A young woman passionate about music leaves everything for it, putting aside her family and a lover.

The experiences of several young people who practice music and want to form an orchestra.

A heart-warming and entertaining chronicle of Salesian priest Lorenzo Massa. His work in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires in the early 1900s led to the founding of San Lorenzo de Almagro, one of the best soccer clubs in Argentina. (Pope Francis, who grew up in this neighborhood in the 1940s, is a fan). Father Massa (Ángel Magaña), an athletic young priest, is sent to serve a working class community, where he initially faces indifference and hostility. Following the conventions of the Hollywood biopic, the film describes the characters and their plights with affection, and a dash of drama, as they are changed by the example of the priest.

The Argentine Sala de Guardia was released in English-speaking markets as Emergency Ward. South-of-the-Border matinee idol Carlos Thompson stars as an idealistic intern, doing his best to survive a very tough day on the job. When not scurrying from one patient to another, the intern tries to maintain equilibrium in his romance with a nurse (Elisa Galve). Comedy dovetails neatly into tragedy, which in turn segues smoothly into heart-tugging pathos. A box-office smash in Argentina, Sala de Guardia repeated its moneymaking performance all throughout Latin America.

An orphan woman joins an otter hunter who mistreats her and an Italian emigrant will protect her.

A young woman has her plans to catch a doctor reluctant to marry.

La pasión de un marino por una prostituta que trata de retenerlo con maleficios y conjuros.

Versión novelada sobre la epopeya de la fundación y establecimiento de la ciudad de Esperanza (Santa Fe), primera colonia de inmigrantes creada en Argentina en la provincia de Santa Fe en 1856.

Narra las vicisitudes de un joven de 24 años que pierde todo su dinero en la mesa de la ruleta y decide suicidarse, es interrumpido por un misterioso hombre que lo invita a ingresar a un club de suicidas. Allí, a través de las cartas, se sortea quien va a morir. El héroe se involucra en el juego y es señalado por las cartas. Tiene sólo siete días de vida, en los cuales intenta en vano la denuncia policial en su afán por desvincularse del compromiso. En su vagabundear por las calles de Londres, conoce a una mujer que se empeña en acompañarlo. Su interés por vivir posee ahora una nueva motivación.

Un hombre seis veces viudo convive con sus seis suegras y busca nueva esposa.

A man finances the invention of a friend overshadowed and dominated by the women of his family.

Al enfermarse un hombre, su familias e entera que tiene un hijo natural. Mandan a buscarlo al colegio y llega un niño que es negrito. La familia se escandaliza y decide devolverlo inmediatamente a la escuela, especialmente porque sus hermanitos se han encariñado con él,pero la gestión de un cura permitirá que el niño se quede en el hogar en calidad de hijo de un pariente soltero.

Una mujer rememora ante el espejo su pasado romántico y el sacrificio que realizó en beneficio de su madre y de su hermana.

Se trata de una comedia que gira en torno de las vicisitudes de los integrantes de una familia porteña frente a su bancarrota económica y de la actitud de cada uno de ellos en la emergencia.

Un autoritario tutor cambia su conducta gracias a una joven huérfana de la que termina enamorándose.

The happiness of a child is marred by the harsh attitude of the captain of a boat.