Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
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...
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti...
Gabriel decides to go back to his home town. In the way, he meets "El Signo del Caos".
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The...
Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian film...
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...
A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowne...
Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guima...
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck p...
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...