Chico Diaz
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1959-02-16
Locus Natus: Mexico City, Mexico
Et ut: Chico Díaz
O Magnata
An upper-middle class punk singer Andre, Magnata spends his time with his low-class friends, singing in clubs and wasting money. When he accepts a...
release : 2007.11.15popularis : 1.5
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 3.714
Diário Dentro da Noite
During the night lived in 2020 with denialism, an actor in rehearsal and confinement, his and the character who rehearses, one of the thousand...
release : 2022.01.21popularis : 0.61
Mango Yellow
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
release : 2002.08.14popularis : 6.433
Avaete, Seed of Revenge
Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true...
release : 1985.08.26popularis : 3.931
Vermelho Monet
Follows the story of Johannes Van Almeida, a painter who was just released from prison and wants to start his life anew, but everything changes when...
release : 2024.05.09popularis : 3.159
The Forest
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty...
release : 2002.11.01popularis : 1.999
Águia na Cabeça
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...
release : 1984.04.01popularis : 1.373
Luzia Homem
After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men of Brazilian "Sertão". As a...
release : 1988.05.05popularis : 1.927
The Patriot
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His...
release : 1998.04.29popularis : 2.255
Belly Up
Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.
release : 1997.09.10popularis : 1.667
Barrela: Escola de Crimes
In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constant threat of sexual violence coming from the rest...
release : 1990.02.06popularis : 1.756
Perfumed Ball
A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.
release : 1997.08.01popularis : 2.341
The Colour of His Destiny
Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years...
release : 1987.11.11popularis : 3.332
Words with Gods
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the...
release : 2014.11.20popularis : 1.637
Corisco & Dadá
Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who...
release : 1996.09.02popularis : 1.891
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...
release : 2020.10.22popularis : 2.358
Angels of the Sun
In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the...
release : 2006.03.04popularis : 4.04
Os Pobres Diabos
The Gran Circo Teatro Americano takes its attractions to the northeastern hinterland. In the city of Aracati, the troupe puts on a fun play about the...
release : 2013.09.18popularis : 1.029
The Dream's Not Over
The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a...
release : 1982.08.06popularis : 0.993
Quilombo
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...
release : 1984.06.03popularis : 1.758
Talking Cinema
A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature...
release : 1986.12.11popularis : 2.03
Rio's Love Song
Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. "Elephant's Stomp" : the story of a...
release : 1994.09.15popularis : 2.517
Aventuras de um Paraíba
Young guy from the poor Northeast region of Brazil comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. Naturally, he is faced with many adversities along the...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 2.113
The Ardor
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of...
release : 2014.05.14popularis : 3.226
Praça Saens Peña
Paulo works as a high school literature teacher, his wife Teresa is a local shopkeeper, and their daughter Bel is still in school. They live in a...
release : 2008.10.03popularis : 2.067
Em Nome da Lei
The journey of idealistic Vitor, a young federal judge who decides to dismantle the mafia that dominates the border between Brazil and Paraguay....
release : 2016.04.21popularis : 0.942
The Midday Sun
After a tragic crime of passion, Artur leaves the depths of Brazil on a journey in search of redemption. Early on, he meets Matuim, the anarchic...
release : 2010.10.01popularis : 0.151
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.
release : 1990.05.30popularis : 0.932
Where the River Runs Black
An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.
release : 1986.09.19popularis : 1.566
O Tronco
Vicente, a tax collector, is sent to a distant region to defy the dominion of Melo, a powerful landowner. When Melo's henchmen burn down the...
release : 1999.11.25popularis : 1.035
Parahyba Mulher Macho
Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and libertarian...
release : 1983.09.15popularis : 0.914
Deserto Azul
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until...
release : 2013.11.06popularis : 0.362
Benjamim
Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the...
release : 2003.10.21popularis : 1.611
Guerra do Paraguay
A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
release : 2016.05.04popularis : 1.133
Napomuceno's Will
Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 0.545
Going to Brazil
Four childhood friends are reunited at a wedding in Rio. But when they accidentally kill a young man during a party that gets out of hand, they are...
release : 2017.03.22popularis : 5.376
Garrincha: Lonely Star
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...
release : 2003.07.08popularis : 1.463
As Alegres Comadres
Scoundrel João Fausto, a former Portuguese officer, arrives in Tiradentes,in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using his status of former...
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 0.962
Doces Poderes
A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face...
release : 1997.11.17popularis : 0.653
The Third Bank of the River
After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of...
release : 1994.02.20popularis : 2.132
Favorite Son
Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological...
release : 2001.06.06popularis : 1.248
Innocence
In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the...
release : 1983.09.16popularis : 2.041
The Man in the Black Cape
Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.
release : 1986.03.31popularis : 1.961
The Story of Me
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
release : 2009.08.07popularis : 2.293
Cine Holliúdy 2: A Chibata Sideral
With the arrival of the VCR in people's homes, Francisgleydisson is forced to close his beloved Cine Holliudy. This jeopardizes your son's college...
release : 2019.03.21popularis : 2.033
O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil
Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the...
release : 2007.11.09popularis : 0.788
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness...
release : 2020.10.01popularis : 1.889
Alien Nights
Rio Branco, Acre, an Amazon city near the border with Peru and Bolivia, has been suffering the violent impacts of recent changes in trafficking...
release : 2023.03.23popularis : 2.84
Dossiê 50: Comício a Favor dos Náufragos
Journalist Geneton Moraes Neto interviews Brazilian international players who lost to Uruguayan national team in the finals of the World Cup 1950 in...
release : 2013.01.01popularis : 0.482
Santiago das Américas ou o Olho do Terceiro Mundo
In a small island convulsed by the 1959 revolution, Santiago Álvarez used the Seventh Art as a political weapon and created an aesthetic that...
release : 2019.07.10popularis : 0.519
Dona Flor and Her 2 Husbands
The 20 episode miniseries edited into a 141 minute TV film. The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho and soon finds out he's spending all their money on...
release : 1998.08.31popularis : 1.691
Chico Rei
Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the...
release : 1985.01.20popularis : 2.581
Jonathas' Forest
Jonathas lives with his parents and his brother, Juliano, in a cottage in a rural area of the Amazon. The family harvests and sells local products at...
release : 2012.10.08popularis : 2.862
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife,...
release : 2020.11.26popularis : 5.27
The Egg
Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken.
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 0.576
The Inventor of Dreams
Mixed with fiction and documentary, the film relives the interviews conducted by the writer Clarice Lispector published in the magazines "Manchete"...
release : 2010.01.01popularis : 0.968
Gabriela
In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small...
release : 1983.03.24popularis : 4.304
Jaguar Man
Two moments in the life of Pedro. First in 1997, he lives with his family in Rio de Janeiro and works at Gás do Brasil, a company that is...
release : 2021.08.26popularis : 1.051