Álvaro Freire

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.

Adaptación de la novela "El gran arte", de Rubem Fonseca.

The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who ran away with another, the girl seeks comfort on the farm where the two in-laws live and the widowed father-in-law. There, the girl discovers a new world.

The relationship among three friendly couples turns upside down when two of the men get a job on TV. Their girlfriends leave them, looking for more action in their lives.

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.

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, and her husband Zeca, a writer in crisis about his work.

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters.

A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.

João da Silva Brown, a resident of Salvador, has always been a fan of comics, movies and adventure series and superheroes. Once he learns about a course for detectives and decides to attend it. With his private detective degree, he sets up an office and places an ad in the newspaper. Now wearing a cape and hat, he waits in vain for customers.

Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.

During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she dives into Rio de Janeiro's underworld and meet all kind of criminals. She also goes back in time, to a past carnival, where she thinks she might pin-point the culprit among a group of people.

A punto de ser desalojado , los residentes de una comunidad hacen un llamamiento a las deidades que continúen en sus hogares . Yemanjá , la reina del mar de acuerdo con las religões Afrobrasileño envía el pescador Nelson para luchar por la permanencia de las familias .

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

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.

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

Pueblito brasileño Bahia, en los años veinte. La bella Floripides Guimaraes, más conocida como Doña Flor, está casada con el pícaro y mujeriego Valdomiro Santos Guimaraes, alias Vadinho. Si bien su marido es un irresponsable juerguista, Doña Flor se siente compensada con la ardiente vida sexual que le da. Cuando Vadinho muera de un infarto en pleno carnaval, Doña Flor sentirá que su vida (sexual) ha quedado vacía. La solitaria viuda acepta casarse con el respetable y pulcro Dr. Teodoro Madureira, un hombre metódico y responsable. Pero, pese a ser un ciudadano modelo, el nuevo esposo no logra cubrir el vacío pasional dejado por el ardiente Vadinho. Doña Flor reconoce que su nuevo marido nunca le podrá satisfacer en el campo del deseo como su primer marido. Pero, de manera sobrenatural, Doña Flor verá la oportunidad de satisfacer su nostalgia sexual: Vadinho ha regresado al mundo de los vivos, solo visible a los ojos de ella... y dispuesto a saciar los deseos de la apasionada viuda.

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working and goes to the big city, facing a cruel and hostile world, working in factories, bars and bordellos.

Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé.

The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.