A pictorial portrait of the legendary sambista, Assis Valente. The film traces his biography in a sensorial way, capturing a world divided between joy and despair.

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obses...

Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. Wh...

An intricate exploration of football, international rivalry, personal disappointments and the enduri...

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' ...

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of ...

A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off ...

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees th...

Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio,...

Legendary rock band Rush plays the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the final night of...

Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neig...

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/son...

For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...

In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms he...