Ruy Polanah

Cristais de Sangue

Luna Alkalay

Paulo Cutuba, Salma Buzzar

Fitzcarraldo

Werner Herzog

Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

The Guns

Ruy Guerra

Átila Iório, Nelson Xavier

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.

Ladrões de Cinema

Fernando Coni Campos

Antônio Pitanga, Milton Gonçalves

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.

Tragic Jungle

Roberto Farias

Reginaldo Faria, Rejane Medeiros

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

Memória Viva

Octávio Bezerra

Aloísio Magalhães, Fernando Albagli

Bar Esperança

Hugo Carvana

Marília Pêra, Hugo Carvana

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.

Sagarana, o Duelo

Paulo Thiago

Milton Moraes, Ana Maria Magalhães

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

Barra Pesada

Reginaldo Faria

Stepan Nercessian, Cosme dos Santos

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.

The Emerald Forest

John Boorman

Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

A Dança dos Bonecos

Helvécio Ratton

Wilson Grey, Kimura Schettino

Mr. Kapa and his assistant meet Iara, a mythical being, in a river with purple waters. Geléia, the assistant, fills a bottle with this magic water and makes three puppets turn alive.

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Héctor Babenco

Tom Berenger, Джон Литгоу

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?

Noites do Sertão

Carlos Alberto Prates Correia

Cristina Aché, Débora Bloch

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.

O Homem do Corpo Fechado

Schubert Magalhães

Roberto Bonfim, Esther Mellinger

Anchieta, José do Brasil

Paulo Cézar Saraceni

Ney Latorraca, Luiz Linhares

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

Quilombo

Carlos Diegues

Tony Tornado, Antônio Pompêo

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.