Mauro Mendonça

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

Vrijlating : 1997.01.01
Populariteit : 3.93

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues...

Vrijlating : 1976.11.22
Populariteit : 7.489

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

Vrijlating : 1989.06.02
Populariteit : 1.148

A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a...

Vrijlating : 1982.01.11
Populariteit : 18.574

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....

Vrijlating : 1955.08.24
Populariteit : 2.829

Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister....

Vrijlating : 1978.01.01
Populariteit : 1.812

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a...

Vrijlating : 2004.09.10
Populariteit : 2.176

After Cláudia, haunted by her husband’s death on a car crash, starts a romance with another man, she starts receiving threatening...

Vrijlating : 1973.05.23
Populariteit : 1.298

Vrijlating : 1983.05.26
Populariteit : 1.005

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...

Vrijlating : 2003.10.21
Populariteit : 1.637

Vrijlating : 1973.10.07
Populariteit : 0.564

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers...

Vrijlating : 1991.06.01
Populariteit : 2.067

Yet another Godfrey Ho-scripted / Joseph Lai-produced / IFD-distributed "cut-and-paste" job. This one takes much of its footage from the 1983...

Vrijlating : 1987.01.01
Populariteit : 3.381

Vrijlating : 1964.05.23
Populariteit : 1.113

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of...

Vrijlating : 1988.02.19
Populariteit : 2.373

Vrijlating : 1957.12.30
Populariteit : 0.913

Vrijlating : 1960.03.10
Populariteit : 1.655

Documentary on Rosamaria Murtinho and Mauro Mendonça’s 60-year long career in Brazilian theater, film and television. The film not only...

Vrijlating : 2017.06.29
Populariteit : 1.471

Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days,...

Vrijlating : 2016.09.22
Populariteit : 5.246

Laura remembers an affair that just ended: for a few weeks, she and a married doctor, Alec, met every Thursday for lunch in a train station and a...

Vrijlating : 1968.04.14
Populariteit : 1.201

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso...

Vrijlating : 2021.04.10
Populariteit : 3.145