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.
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...
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to ...
Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make ...
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...
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 ...
At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a ...
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop...
Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio,...
Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. Wh...
The film tells the story of Luiz Antônio, a clumsy radio host, who unexpectedly finds himself in cha...
A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/son...
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms he...
Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neig...
2000 Release of Live Concert Filmed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Barcelona, Spain (1999). • 1. Maç...
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hi...