A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...
Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The...
A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowne...
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political pow...
Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of...
Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guima...
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
Gabriel decides to go back to his home town. In the way, he meets "El Signo del Caos".
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti...
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transfo...
Rebels on the surface, retrogrades in essence. “The Ridiculists”, a duo composed of the eccentric an...
Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins...
Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian film...
Experimental short-film made by brazilian students about the trópicalia and cinema novo movement. Th...
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in c...
A woman waits for her husband, a woodcutter, during long lonely days. She becomes weary and leaves h...