Eliezer Gomes

Assault on the Pay Train

Roberto Farias

Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

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.

Faustão

Eduardo Coutinho

Eliezer Gomes, Jorge Gomes

A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique Pereira, son of Colonel Pereira, is wounded in an ambush. Faustão rescues him and demands the father to pay a ransom in exchange for the life of his son. The bandit makes it clear to Henrique that he is not a prisoner and that he is only obeying the law of the backlands. Lucena, a henchman working for the Araújos, finds Faustão and offers twice the amount being asked to the colonel in order to take Henrique as a prisoner, but the bandit refuses the offer. Colonel Henrique pays the ransom, but the son refuses to return home, even being aware of the feud between his family and the Araújos. The young man chooses to join the gang.

O Beijo

Flávio Tambellini

Xandó Batista, Norma Blum

When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss that resulted in the eventual persecution and death of the man is never shown in this plodding, downbeat drama.

Ganga Zumba

Carlos Diegues

Antônio Pitanga, Léa Garcia

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

O Anjo da Noite

Walter Hugo Khouri

Selma Egrei, Eliezer Gomes

Student girl goes to a mansion in Petrópolis, Brazil, to babysit two children, while their parents are away for the weekend, and is terrorized by anonymous phonecalls originating in the house.

Na Mira do Assassino

Mário Latini

Agildo Ribeiro, Wilson Grey

Joanna Francesa

Carlos Diegues

Jeanne Moreau, Eliezer Gomes

Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest surroundings of a landlord's farmhouse. To the extent she will defend her land like a 19th century owner - of lands and men alike.

Le Maître du temps

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Duda Cavalcanti

An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

Svarta palmkronor

Lars-Magnus Lindgren

Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson

Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober.

Perpétuo Contra o Esquadrão da Morte

Miguel Borges

Milton Moraes, Waldir Onofre

Inspired by the life of one of the most famous policemen in the history of Brazil: detective Perpétuo de Freitas, immortalized in the annals of Brazilian criminal history for relentlessly pursuing and without the slightest assistance of the Rio police force one of the most wanted criminals in the country.

Sete Homens Vivos ou Mortos

Leovegildo Cordeiro

Maurício do Valle, Wilson Grey