Orlando
Hermanoteu is a young shepherd boy who, enlightened by the "Divine Light", travels to the land of Godah to free the people from the oppressive hands of cruel tyrants. A comedy based on the hugely successful play "Hermanoteu in the Land of Godah" by the Brazilian theater company "The Best of the World".
Alfredo Vianna
The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Orlando
The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date.
Dr. Louveira
What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.
Ele mesmo
The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
Narrador
Self
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. He career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. Pitanga deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Waldemar de Brito
브라질의 축구 선수를 넘어 20세기 최고의 천재 축구 선수 펠레. 브라질의 조그만 마을에서 태어나 어릴때부터 아이들과 축구를 하며 자라던 펠레는 산토스 축구팀에 입단하면서 세계 무대로 입성하게 된다. 짜여진 축구의 기술보다 브라질의 감성을 담은 축구를 하고 싶었던 펠레는 그만의 기술로 한발짝씩 성장해 가는데…… 7월, 월드컵의 함성과 함께 축구의 감동을 느껴 보자
Monsenhor Fidélis
Manuel is a crafty cowboy and swindler who lives to serve his two great loves – his fiancée Das Dô, and his mule Beija-fulô – and his business of selling unsound horses to suckers. The killer Targino arrives in town looking for a horse. Thinking that he is being clever, Manuel sells a sick horse to the assassin. Targino swears that he is going to kill Manuel, and dishonor Das Dô’s reputation after he’s dead. Under pressure, Manuel calls on the magic of Toniquinho das Pedras to protect his body. However, the witchdoctor demands the mule Beija-fulô as payment. Manuel, sees himself in the dilemma between having to choose between his fiancée Das Dô, and the mule, Beija-fulô.
어딜 가나 사고를 치고 다니는 말썽꾸러기 페르난도. 언제나 장난감들과 비디오 게임만 하는 페르난도가 걱정되는 마음에 아버지는 여러 방법을 시도하다가 ‘폭풍 대장 이야기’라는 책을 페르난도에게 선물한다. 책에 푹 빠진 페르난도는 머나먼 땅 캄차카에 잡혀 있는 폭풍 대장을 구하러 가기로 결심한다. 아프리카와 인도, 중국을 거치며 페르난도와 장난감 친구들은 넓은 세상을 구경하고, 갖은 고비를 넘기며 돈독한 우정을 쌓게 되는데…
Governador
Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão entertains the small town of Periperi with the stories of his many adventures travelling around the world as a captain of the merchant navy. Stubborn Chico Pacheco is the only one in town who doesn't believe his tales.
Ozires
Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for murder.
Journalist Geneton Moraes Neto interviews Brazilian international players who lost to Uruguayan national team in the finals of the World Cup 1950 in Maracanã stadium.
Roberval
The aspiring actress Marivalda, her husband Wanderley, a bankrupt insurance broker and a false priest do their best to get along in life. But they end up in the hands of a drug boss, whose daughter they promised to save the life of, hit in a shooting at a party in São Cristóvão. A huge cash reward is at stake and now all three have to chase the promised miracle.
Pastor
"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.
Delegado Morais
죽음을 한판의 축제로 만들어버리는 브라질산 흥겨운 코미디. 천둥번개가 몰아치는 밤 바다를 배경으로 킹카스의 내레이션이 울려 퍼진다. 떠돌이 선장인 그가 72세 생일잔치를 앞두고 죽자 빈민가 친구들이 딸에게 소식을 전한다. 바다에 그를 묻으려는 쪽과 예식을 중시하는 쪽 간의 왁자지껄 실랑이가 벌어진다. (2010년 제15회 부산국제영화제)
Presidente Dantas
Pai
This short film portrays the last hours of a young man before assuming homosexuality. He struggles to tell his father that he is gay, but gets inspired from a conversation with friends.
Self
Self
The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.
Tesoura
After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel left for exile. His supporters don't give up on returning him to the throne. Willing to do anything they even try to use the slaves of the colonies. A mysterious emissary is sent to Cape Verde to prepare an uprising. But other reasons were behind his visit to the archipelago ....
Diretor Severo
Kika, a math teacher, accidentaly becomes a child again after eating a magic cupcake. This leads her in a journey of self-discovery, while also helping Juju, a 10-year old girl chasing her dreams.
Zinho
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.
Narrador
The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the importance of respecting difference and his belief that an alternative globalisation model could wholly enfranchise all citizens of the world. An illustrious presence in 20th century social sciences, the man dubbed as ‘geography’s philosopher’ eloquently elucidates a developing world perspective on the global age.
Padre
The musician and writer of the comic book "Ghost with Heart of Stone" Eduardo meets the gorgeous Laura, who is engaged and close to her marriage, in a bookstore and immediately they fall in love for each other. Sooner they get married, and one night, Eduardo unexpectedly dies, but his soul does not move to the Third World. He meets the Ghost with Heart of Stone stranded in his house, stalking his beloved next door neighbor D. Mariana and he asks to the ghost how he can communicate and say farewell to Laura.
Narrator
A re-imagining of the myth of Yansan, Shango and Ogum in a luminous, futuristic Japan.
Euclides Arquimedes (voice)
With the help from his little guardian angel, Xuxinha, a 7-year old boy called Guto faces the terrible garbage eating monsters from the planet XYZ in the first-ever animated Xuxa film.
Zé das Bicicletas
É uma lírica história de redenção amorosa entre irmãs, mães e filhas, em uma pequena cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, onde os fantasmas da escravidão e do racismo acentuam os dramas de forma sutil e poderosa.
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Hélio Hipólito
Deep in the Amazon rain forest, there is a lost subterranean city. The place was built by Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured up the Amazon River, and shelters a mysterious treasure. In order to find the secret location, Bárbara and the children Riacho and Manhã will have to face many challenges. Vicious snakes and dangerous pendulum blades are only the beginning of our heroes' adventures.
Závos
The planet Earth is devastated by the lack of water. Desert and arid, left this place few living beings , who had to adapt to the new bioma.2 Isolated in small communities , living separated...
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The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arched legs, a passion for women and booze. Also had a much talked extramarital affair with singer Elza Soares and died in relative decadence. The movie focuses on his zenith, from 1953 until the World Championship and the Rio Regional Championship, in 1962.
Chico
남미 최대의 감옥 카란디루. 과밀수용으로 폭력과 전염병이 급속도로 번져가던 어느 날 에이즈 치료와 예방교육을 위해 한 의사(드라우지오 바렐라)가 도착한다. 바렐라는 카란디루에 발을 들여놓는 순간부터 거친 수감자들의 칼부림을 목격하고 열악한 환경에 몸서리치지만, 수 많은 환자들을 외면하지 못해 그곳에 남기로 한다. 감옥 한 쪽에 마련된 간이 진료실은 ‘이곳에 죄 지은 사람은 없다’는 수감자들의 각양각색 사연들이 오가는 특별한 공간이 된다. 자기는 원래 좀도둑에 불과했다고 주장하는 우연한 살인범 에보니, 아내‘들’의 사랑다툼이 방화로 이어져 감옥신세까지 지게 되었다는 미워할 수 없는 바람둥이 하이니스, 이름과는 정반대로 트랜스젠더 레이디 디와 사랑에 빠지고 옥중결혼식까지 올리는 행운의 사나이 투 배드(Too bad)... 바렐라는 다양한 죄수들을 만나 각각의 너무나 인간적인 범죄의 뒷이야기에 귀를 기울인다. 얼핏 보면 온갖 범죄자들이 모인 무법천지, 그러나 나름의 엄격한 위계질서를 가지고 움직이던 카란디루의 최대행사인 축구시합이 열리던 날! 축구장 밖에서 일어난 사소한 싸움이 카란디루 전체의 폭동으로 번지게 되고... 경찰기동대의 잔혹한 진압으로 카란디루는 순식간에 끔찍한 피바다를 이룬다. 운 좋게도 비극의 그날 카란디루를 잠시 떠나있었던 바렐라는 살아남은 자들의 생생한 고백을 전해듣는다.
Padre Arnaldo
Scoundrel João Fausto, a former Portuguese officer, arrives in Tiradentes,in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using his status of former Imperial Court member, he tries to become lover of both ms. Lima and ms. Rocha, with the intention of taking their money.
Delegado Ferreira
Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Himself
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyses race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Brazilian African-Americans' identity-forming processes.
Saxofonista (voz)
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Inácio
Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives.
Padre Clemente
The 20 episode miniseries edited into a 141 minute TV film. The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho and soon finds out he's spending all their money on gambles and has mistresses all over the city. Vadinho suddenly dies while partying during Carnival, and Flor, left helpless and full of debts, ends up marrying Teodoro, who's the exact opposite of her late husband.
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways
Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
Sergeant
자선 경기 참석차 리오로 가던 킥복싱 선수 데이빗 슬로안(David Sloan: 사샤 미첼 분)과 그의 트레이너이자 정신적 스승인 지안(Xian: 데니스 찬 분)은 고아 마르코스(Marcos: 노아 베르두주코 분)와 이자벨라(Isabella: 알레테아 미란다 분)와 친구가 된다. 경기는 잘 진행되지만 아르헨티나 선수 에릭 마틴(Martine: 이안 잭클린 분)은 데이빗의 정신을 교란시키려고 반칙을 하며 소란을 피운다. 시합 후 마틴의 메니저 레인(Lane: 리차드 코마 분)은 데이빗을 파티에 초대한다. 소녀들을 팔아 매음굴을 운영하는 레인은 이자벨라를 보자 납치한다. 마르코스는 데이빗에게 도움을 청하고 경찰에 가지만 경찰은 무관심하다. 수없이 많은 소녀들이 납치되고 있기 때문이다. 이자벨라를 찾는 과정에서 싸움이 생기고, 데이빗과 지안은 감옥에 갇힌다. 레인은 돈을 써서 두 사람을 풀어준다. 그리고는 제안을 한다. 시합에 지면 돈을 주겠다는 것이다. 이를 거절한 데이빗은 이자벨라를 찾아 거물급 브랑코에게 간다. 브랑코의 집에 진입하려고 싸움을 하지만 오페라에 가고 없었다. 브랑코 부부를 위협해서 이자벨라를 납치한 것이 레인임을 알게된다. 데이빗은 레인을 찾아가지만 이미 정보를 듣고 데이빗은 함정에 빠진다. 레인은 데이빗에게 훈련을 시켜서 힘을 빼 시합에 지도록 하려는 것이다. 시합은 다가오고 데이빗은 녹초가 되어 싸울 수가 없다. 지안이 약초로 치료해 주어 데이빗의 힘은 되살아난다. 잠시의 고전뒤 데이빗은 마틴을 때려 눕힌다. 빈털털이가 된 레인은 마지막으로 이자벨을 데리고 도망가려 한다. 그러나 데이빗은 그녀를 구해내고 레인에게 상금을 주기로 한다. 후에 레인의 집에 가서 다른 소녀들을 구해내지만 레인의 총부리에 마주서게 된다. 하지만 레인은 자기의 부하에게 당하고 데이빗은 상금을 소녀들과 마르코스 이자벨라 남매에게 주고는 미국으로 돌아간다.
Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective France. Written by: Dias Gomes, Ferreira Gullar and Marcílio Moraes.
Narrator
A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos.
Francisco
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
Judge
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
Flavio
미모와 지성을 갖춘 젊은 여자 변호사가 진실하고도 격렬한 사랑에 눈뜨기까지의 과정을 그린 영화.
Carlo
뉴욕에서 활동하는 영화 배우 잭 노아는 스타덤에 오르고 싶은 욕망을 갖고 있는 평범한 사람이다. 그는 어느날 중남미 카리브해 연안의 파라도로 촬영을 떠나게 되는데, 이 영화 촬영을 이 나라의 대통령이 시찰하게 된다. 잭은 본의 아니게 그의 모습을 그대로 흉내내게 되어 대통령을 비롯 많은 사람들의 감탄을 자아낸다. 그러던 중, 이 독재자가 심작발작으로 갑자기 죽자 그 뒤에서 실제 권력을 행사하던 로버타는 잭 노아를 변장시켜 독재자를 시키게 하는 것이었다. 물론 불응시에는 생명이 위험하게 되자 잭은 어떨 수 없이 관중 앞에서 첫 연설을 하게 되는데, 결과는 그야말로 그 이상이었다. 그러던 어느날 하류층 출신의 독재자의 정부였던 마돈나는 그의 편에 서서 그가 가야할 길을 제시해주고 어느덧 두사람은 사랑에 빠진다. 그렇지만 독재자에 대한 불만이 커진 공산 게릴라들은 급기야 폭발 테러를 일으켜 큰 위험도 겪는다. 이것에 자극을 받은 잭은 로버토로부터의 위험을 무릅쓰고 급개혁을 단행하게 되고 자신을 노렸던 게릴라들과도 협상을 제시하는 등 그의 인기는 날로 치솟는다. 하지만 잭은 연기자의 생활로 되돌아가 뉴욕으로 가고 싶어한다. 그러던 중 꼭 1년이 되어 자신과 똑같이 파라도로 로케를 온 영화촬영팀에서 특수효과 전문가를 만난다. 그리고 그와 함께 연설 중 자신이 총에 받아 암살되는 계획을 세운다. 그것은 완벽하게 성공하여 그는 죽기전 로버타를 살인자로 지목하고 죽는다. 로버타는 성난 군중에 쉽사여 죽게 되고, 깨어난 잭은 마돈나와 아쉬운 이별후 파라도를 탈출한다. 뉴욕에 돌아온 잭은 파라도가 혼란이 끝나고 마돈나의 주도하에 자신이 못다한 대대적인 개혁 작업이 단행되고 있음을 보면서 흐뭇해하는데...
Natal da Portela
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters.
A bank sends three prize-winning employees on a vacation to Rio.
Pedro
호모인 모리나(윌리암 허트 분)는 반도덕 범죄자로 기소되어 복역 중, 감방 동료로 발렌틴(라울 줄리아 분)이라는 진보주의 정치범을 맞게 된다. 섬세한 감성의 모리나는 매일 밤 어둠 속에서 나찌 장교와 프랑스 레지스탕스 여인의 비극적 사랑을 담은 영화 이야기를 들려주며 고문으로 처참하게 망가진 발렌틴의 상처를 어루만져준다. 모리나에 대한 거부감이 연민으로 바뀌면서 둘 사이에는 우정이 싹트고, 발렌틴이 육체와 정신의 건강을 되찾고 모리나를 이해할 즈음에는 사랑의 감정이 싹튼다. 모리가 출감하는 날 발렌틴은 동지이자 연인인 리디아(안나 마리아 브라가 분)에게 메세지를 전해줄 것을 부탁한다. 모리나는 자신이 미행당하는 것을 알면서도 발렌틴에 대한 애정으로써 약속 장소로 향한다.
Cacareco
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
Bráulio
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
Bené
Turista
Luquinha
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira.
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History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies and his fight against a death squad.
Macumbeiro
Young and rich executive living in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, leaves his wife and kids behind and goes to Porto Seguro, Bahia, to try and live as a fisherman with his mistress.
Rainha Diaba
Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot against Her Majesty arises!
Ladrão 1
Sad with her grandfather's death, Maria goes on vacation with her friend João on board a jeep. After being threatened by three thieves and helped by a Japanese traveler who opens their eyes to the mysteries of love, a pair gets lost in the forest and ends up at the home of a strange woman, who turns out to be a powerful witch Astarte. Realizing the danger they are in, Maria asks for help from the forest beings who teach her the secrets of the four magic keys: earth, air, fire and water. With these teachings, Maria leaves for the final confrontation against Astarte.
Jiguê
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
Severino
Couple of lovers want to steal the income of a popular soccer game, at Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.
Bruno is a physician whose license had been revoked, due to some ethical problems in the past. He gathers some criminals to kidnap the children of two powerful bankers. While the police faces contradictory evidence and clues, Bruno starts killing the other criminals, to keep the ransom for himself.
Urtiga
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.
In a fictitious country, civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities because he could break world economics. But he manages to escape.
Based on real-life Brazilian bandit "Mineirinho", the film follows the story of Zezé, a man falsely accused by sensasionalist press of being a high-caliber criminal who suddenly becomes one of the most wanted men of Rio de Janeiro.
Jerry is a tutor at an orphanage. On the first day of vacation, the boys go to the beach with Professor Teobaldo and find a skeleton and a treasure map. Word spreads and a rush for gold begins. On the one hand, Jerry and Neyde, television colleagues; on the other, the director of the station, Indalécio, and his lover Aphrodite; finally, the evil Rock Trombada, in the company of scientist Bertini and Daniel. On Treasure Island, the three camps promote mutual sabotage. After many confusions, Trombada flees with the treasure to the ship's cemetery but they are surrounded by the boys and Indalécio. It's the final war. But it is Jerry who will take the wealth in order to improve the situation at the orphanage.
General's daughter, who lives with her boyfriend without being married, gets in trouble when her conservative father decides to visit her. A friend decides to help them, but things only get worse.
Bira
True story of a famous and violent Brazilian outlaw nicknamed "Paraíba". After being shot, Paraíba tries to hide inside a church, where he starts remembering episodes of his criminal life.
Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes. After Diadorim's father is killed, she swears revenge, being joined by Riobaldo in this mission.
The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker.
(segment "Couro de Gato")
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Black man working
A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.
Based on true events, the film tells the story of Brazilian outlaw Promessinha, one of the most famous and feared criminals of his time, depicting his crimes and cruelty, until his death confronting the police.
On the day of his wedding, young man from a family of immigrants faces some problems to get the money needed for the last arrangements. The family do what they can in order to honour the great event, selling personal belongings and buying enough supplies for a decent party.
