Jece Valadão

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is...

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

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...

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the work of two young priests.

A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The...

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the...

Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...

On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city....

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.

After a powerful outlaw dies, a reporter interviews his lover and gets three different stories about the legendary man.

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

In the early seventies in Rio de Janeiro, detective Mariel Moryscötte de Mattos belonged to a special police force called "The Golden Men". This...

A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power...

A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.

A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello's gay cleaner fight over the gigolo's missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.

Hit man does his part in a deal, but doesn't get the money he was promised. For the treason, he decides to eliminate them all.

A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.

Zionists hire a hitman to kill a Nazi war criminal exiled in a Latin American country, where he's being protected by the local dictator. Get ready...

Otavio has to find and marry Madame Bettina's daughter if he wants to inherit her fortune.

A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves.

An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a...

True story of a famous and violent Brazilian outlaw nicknamed "Paraíba". After being shot, Paraíba tries to hide inside a church, where...

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from...

Based on real-life Brazilian bandit "Mineirinho", the film follows the story of Zezé, a man falsely accused by sensasionalist press of being a...

This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version...

Two sisters are newly married; Guida to Paulo and Lígia to Décio. They spend their honeymoon in the apartment, a gift from the father...

A small town in Brazil is the background for this thriller about a murder, disclosing corruption among the leaders of the region.

While still a child, Lollipop falls in love with her orphaned cousin Silvio, who has been raised as a member of the family by her father, Dr....

A jaded reporter used to making up sensationalist headlines gets in trouble when real criminals come after him.

A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then...

Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is...

Two twin brothers, Cláudio José and José Cláudio, definitively separate when one of them decides to leave for the big...

Three young women sharing a room in a boarding house owned by a very strict matron dream of becoming famous in show busines

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

A man seeks revenge after his sister get raped by an unknown foreign, identified only by scar and a missing finger. But his payback journey is a long...

A man leads a double life: during the day, he's the manager of a car shop but, when the sun goes down, he becomes a crook, pretending to be a playboy...

As the owner of a very famous bordello in Rio de Janeiro gets buried, an old scoundrel remembers his own past among the bohemian circles of the city.

Bebeto is a playboy who commits a passional crime killing a friend because of his fiancee. Feeling cornered he kills other four people to survive and...

Alfredo, a rich playboy and restless womanizer lives a happy life until receive threats from several cuckolds. Things get worse when each of the...

In a little forgotten town three bandits robbers a bank and manages to run away with a lot of dough. The police is triggered killing two of them...

Man raised in a brothel tries to earn his living as a pimp, but gets in trouble when his girlfriend cheats him with an older man.

The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had...

Bruno is a physician whose license had been revoked, due to some ethical problems in the past. He gathers some criminals to kidnap the children of...

Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing unites them: the three are suspected of having...

A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry

A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.

Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for...

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

Adaptation of the series shown in 1986. Marcos and Lurdinha live in love in the 1950s. The young man is the son of separated parents and his mother,...