Stênio Garcia

Compasso de Espera

Antunes Filho

Zózimo Bulbul, Renée de Vielmond

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.

Vereda da Salvação

Anselmo Duarte

Raul Cortez, José Parisi

In the Brazilian countryside, poor sharecroppers join a messianic group led by Joaquim, who believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Gaining power over the peasants, he begins to persecute those who do not pay absolute obeisance.

O Beijo no Asfalto

Murilo Benício

Lázaro Ramos, Débora Falabella

When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.

Bandidos da Falange

Jardel Mello, Luiz Antônio Piá

Betty Faria, José Wilker

Casa de Areia

Andrucha Waddington

Fernanda Montenegro, Ruy Guerra

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

O Circo das Qualidades Humanas

Jorge Moreno, Paulo Augusto Gomes

Stênio Garcia, Rogério Cardoso

O Vigilante Rodoviário: Missão Secreta

Ary Fernandes

Carlos Miranda, Geraldo del Rey

As Amorosas

Walter Hugo Khouri

Paulo José, Jacqueline Myrna

An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV actress selling the image of a femme fatale and his bourgeois sister.

O Crime do Zé Bigorna

Anselmo Duarte

Lima Duarte, Jofre Soares

In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.

Tudo Bem

Arnaldo Jabor

Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Gracindo

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.

O Pornógrafo

João Callegaro

Stênio Garcia, Liana Duval

Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.

Me, You, Them

Andrucha Waddington

Regina Casé, Lima Duarte

A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.

Os Matadores

Beto Brant

Chico Diaz, Maria Padilha

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

The Woman of Everyone

Rogério Sganzerla

Helena Ignez, Jô Soares

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.

Redentor

Cláudio Torres

Pedro Cardoso, Miguel Falabella

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.

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?