Arduíno Colassanti Movies

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juca Chaves

Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arduíno Colassanti

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Cast: Regina Duarte

On Carnival's eve, girl dreams of a man to stay with her during these four days. She meets a photographer, with whom she has an affair.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arduíno Colassanti

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arduíno Colassanti

Middle-class teenage girl has a serious boyfriend that her parents approve of. Suddenly, she meets another boy with whom she is shown to have a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Laura Maria

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Xuxa Lopes

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a woman rebels against local morality after her child dies, with tragic results.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leila Diniz

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugo Bidet

Enterprising youths live many adventures when they decide to start a business specializing in making video clips for rock groups.

Genre: Music

Cast: Tânia Nardini

In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leandra Leal

The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christine Fernandes

A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lima Duarte

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arduíno Colassanti

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriana Prieto

American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Natasha Henstridge

The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jofre Soares

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nildo Parente

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Márcia Rodrigues

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Antônio Abujamra

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Neide Aparecida

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sônia Braga

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leila Diniz

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ítala Nandi

Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Anecy Rocha

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arduíno Colassanti

Married woman only feels well when she's in love. In search of a ravishing love, she has many love affairs, with her husband's consent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Darlene Glória

The life of Brazilian actress Leila Diniz.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louise Cardoso

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Fagundes

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

Genre: History

Cast: Tony Tornado

The critical success in France of How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman made possible dos Santos’ delirious science-fiction vision of free love in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noëlle Adam

Deep in the Amazon rain forest, there is a lost subterranean city. The place was built by Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured up the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Xuxa