Cecil Thiré

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.

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.

O Diabo Mora no Sangue

Cecil Thiré

Ana Maria Magalhães, Hugo Brockes

Cinco Vezes Favela

Miguel Borges, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Zózimo Bulbul, Glauce Rocha

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

O Bravo Guerreiro

Gustavo Dahl

Paulo César Peréio, Mário Lago

Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.

O Ibraim do Subúrbio

Astolfo Araujo, Cecil Thiré

José Lewgoy, Lucélia Santos

Cronicamente Inviável

Sérgio Bianchi

Dan Stulbach, Dira Paes

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.

Sonhos Tropicais

André Sturm

Carolina Kasting, Bruno Giordano

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.

Os Mendigos

Flávio Migliaccio

Antonio Carlos da Fontoura, Cecil Thiré

Ainda Agarro Esta Vizinha

Pedro Carlos Rovai

Cecil Thiré, Adriana Prieto

Tatá is a typical Rio de Janeiro guy, easy living, hedonistic, living in an apartment in one of those buildings where everything goes, in Copacabana, near the beach. One day a beautiful new neighbor, Teresa, moves into the apartment in front of his, and he falls in love.

Muito Prazer

David Neves

Ítala Nandi, Cecil Thiré

Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival.

Como nos Livrar do Saco

Cesar Ladeira Filho

Cláudio Cavalcanti, Sandra Barsotti

Cícero and Samantha are lovers who are going to spend a "honeymoon" in Teresina. However, the girl dies suddenly and Cicero calls his friend Edgar to help him hide the body. The already complicated situation gets even worse when the car that holds the body is stolen.

Caminho dos Sonhos

Luca Amberg

Elliott Gould, Talia Shire

A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.

The Quartet

Fábio Barreto

Glória Pires, Patricia Pillar

The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny, leaving their partners. Quatrilho is the name of a card game in wich the player have to betray his partner in order to become the champion.

Fabula de la Bella Palomera

Ruy Guerra

Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana

Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.