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 lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off ...
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marri...
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she ta...
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...
A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of ...
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era Ameri...
Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make ...
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...
Ferdinand Weitel, a forklift driver, is desperate: Insurance agent Arno von Mehling, a true sales ta...
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to ...
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the min...
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with enter...
Edgard has just lost his wife Eleonore he had met at the carnival in Venice. It evokes his memory by...
Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obses...
Hickspoiltation film from the early 1970s ostensibly starring Oscar nominee Mercedes McCambridge, bu...
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the bas...
Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together w...