Brazil

Made in the famous “Água de Meninos” market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid environment of exotic cabarets.Read More »

This is a film adaptation of a chamber drama of the same title by Plínio Marcos which is something of a classic repertory piece in Brazilian theater.

Synopsis:
A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello’s gay cleaner fight over the gigolo’s missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.Read More »

When he learns of his mother’s death, Thomas returns to Brazil with Beni, his partner, and is told he now owns a country house that used to belong to a grandmother he never met. Curious to connect with his family history, they vis…Read More »

Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.Read More »

Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son’s revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.Read More »

The lonely young woman Ariella feels among strangers in her upper-class family in her own house. Ariella is discovering her sexuality and her arrogant mother Helena, her father Rodrigo and her brothers Clécio and Alfonso do not give love or affection to her. When Ariella overhears a conversation of her brothers, she learns that he biological father was lured by Rodrigo that had stolen his fortune and raised her as a daughter. Now Ariella plots revenge against her family using her beautiful body to reach her goal.Read More »

In the fictitious country of Eldorado, taken by the internal struggle for political power, the idealist and journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. He is torn between the elite’s madness and the blind submission of the masses.Read More »

Married woman only feels well when she’s in love. In search of a ravishing love, she has many love affairs, with her husband’s consent.Read More »

Quote:
Our story begins with Macunaima’s miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born full grown, he discovers his life’s purpose which leads him and his family/followers on a journey to the Big City. On the way, more miracles occur, but Macunaima still has the heart and mind of a child. In the Big City, he is co-opted by terrorists who enlist him in their revolutionary schemes. In the Big City he learns that nuts are not always food and other hilarious lessons of life.Read More »