Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when th...

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho...

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire...

Ray Charles plays himself in this film where he helps blind boy David in his struggle to regain his ...

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the mili...

A young man is warned by his boyfriend that he is leaving. Melancholia becomes part of his life unti...

Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is fill...

Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devo...

"Chicha, Hope and Pain" addresses the emblematic figure of Chicha Mariani, founder of the "Grandmoth...

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this seri...
Thieves hijack an aircraft loaded with diamonds, and then must face deadly Amazonian headhunters whe...

A bunch of delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced...

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

1970. Beatriz is an 18-year-old student. She is detained by the military dictatorship in Curitiba, B...

Brazil, 1964, military dictatorship. The young Juca lives in countryside and is influenced by an out...

Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th...

The story of the De Filippo brothers, children of Eduardo Scarpetta.

When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows e...

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. T...