Daniel Filho

Vianinha

Jorge Achôa, Gilmar Guedes Candeias

Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Raul Cortez

Esse Rio que Eu Amo

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Jardel Filho, Tônia Carrero

Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado

Gracindo Júnior

Paulo Gracindo, Gracindo Júnior

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.

O Homem Que Engarrafava Nuvens

Lírio Ferreira

Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.

Mulheres & Milhões

Jorge Ileli

Luigi Picchi, Jece Valadão

Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.

Golden Mouth

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Jece Valadão, Odete Lara

For his first in a long series of wildly imaginative literary adaptations, dos Santos reinvented Nelson Rodrigues' novel about a pathological gangster with solid gold teeth and a voracious appetite for women and power. Embracing radically modernist narrative techniques, Golden Mouth offers a splintered, refractive portrait of brutal masculinity that returns repeatedly to the same moment from different vantages, each time revealing unexpected perspectives on the brutal yet strangely charming criminal. Lurid and disturbing, Golden Mouth delivers a savage satire of marriage and class pretensions, revealing a similar venality at the corroded heart of the sanctimonious bourgeoisie, the moneyed elite and the working class as they all mercilessly claw their way up and down the rickety and ruthlessly hierarchical Brazilian social ladder. -Harvard Film Archive

Crítico

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Aki Kaurismäki, Alain Riou

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

As Quatro Chaves Mágicas

Alberto Salvá

Dita Côrte-Real, Daniel Filho

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.

Chuvas de Verão

Carlos Diegues

Jofre Soares, Miriam Pires

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

Querido Estranho

Ricardo Pinto e Silva

Daniel Filho, Suely Franco

On Alberto's birthday, his daughter Zezé gets engaged. But the party turns sour when he decides to expose his pain and regrets.

The Asphalt Kiss

Bruno Barreto

Ney Latorraca, Christiane Torloni

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.

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.

Chico Xavier

Daniel Filho

Nelson Xavier, Ângelo Antônio

A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.

The Unscrupulous Ones

Ruy Guerra

Norma Bengell, Jece Valadão

Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.

Pobre Príncipe Encantado

Daniel Filho

Wanderley Cardoso, Maria Lúcia Dahl

Wanderley, a young and dreamy Army parachutist, arrives in Teresópolis, a resort mountain town, to enjoy his holidays with his father, a housekeeper for a rich family. Wandering around the woods, he meets Débora, an extremely good-looking girl, but doesn't reveal his true identity, saying only he was a Prince Charming in search of a Sleeping Beauty.

Peacetime

Daniel Filho

Dan Stulbach, Tony Ramos

Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1945. Brazil's foreign policy aligns closely with that of the United States and opens a brief period of democratic rule after the end of World War 2. For years, hundreds of people were arrested and tortured by the Vargas regime. But with the external pressure, several political prisoners gain freedom.