Jardel Filho

Depois do Transe

Paloma Rocha, Joel Pizzini

Glauber Rocha, Paulo Autran

The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martim Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."

Esse Rio que Eu Amo

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Jardel Filho, Tônia Carrero

Pixote

Héctor Babenco

Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Arrastão

Antoine d'Ormesson

Duda Cavalcanti, Pierre Barouh

Crônica da Cidade Amada

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Procópio Ferreira, Jaime Costa

Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.

Leonora dos Sete Mares

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Arturo de Córdova, Susana Freyre

A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.

Improvisiert und zielbewusst: Cinema Novo

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Glauber Rocha, Arnaldo Jabor

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

Floradas na Serra

Luciano Salce

Cacilda Becker, Jardel Filho

Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.

Entranced Earth

Glauber Rocha

Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

Before the Summer

Gerson Tavares

Jardel Filho, Norma Bengell

A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.

Moral em Concordata

Fernando de Barros

Odete Lara, Maria Della Costa

Meus Amores no Rio

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Susana Freyre, Jardel Filho

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.

Cidade Ameaçada

Roberto Farias

Jardel Filho, Eva Wilma

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.

Buscando a Mónica

José María Forqué

Carmen Sevilla, Alberto de Mendoza

A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.

O Homem que Comprou o Mundo

Eduardo Coutinho

Flávio Migliaccio, Marília Pêra

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.

Macunaíma

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Grande Otelo, Paulo José

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.