Emmanuel Cavalcanti Movies

A documentary short on Tempo Glauber, a foundation created by filmmaker Orlando Senna and Glauber Rocha's mother Lucia in order to celebrate and...

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Cast: Lúcia Rocha

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jofre Soares

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juca Chaves

Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Pedro de Bricio

Genre: History

Cast: Othon Bastos

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arduíno Colassanti

In the 17th century, to guarantee the possession of the region, disputed with Spanish and Dutch pirates, the Portuguese built a fort at the point...

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Cast: Rinaldo Gines

Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jofre Soares

In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former...

Genre: History

Cast: Átila Iório

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nuno Leal Maia

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ribeiro

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jofre Soares

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jofre Soares

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

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Joel Barcellos

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

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carlo Mossy

The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old...

Genre: Action

Cast: Maurício do Valle

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alceu Valença

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jardel Filho

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Cast: Aloísio Magalhães

During an orgy of millionaires, a woman is mysteriously kidnapped and killed. The crime causes quite a stir in local society, as the investigations...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Vera Gimenez

In the small town of Taperoá João Grilo and confusion Chicó live setting, addressing a sacristan and a humble baker. Everyone...

Genre: Family

Cast: Renato Aragão

Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies, is bitten up and left for dead,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Othon Bastos

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow...

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Wilker

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriano Lisboa

The dreams and problems of three friends: Malagueta, an inveterate gambler; Perus, former factory worker who abandoned the assembly line to earn his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lima Duarte

A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Emmanuel Cavalcanti

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Cast: Emmanuel Cavalcanti

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: José Wilker

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roberto Bonfim

High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nelson Dantas

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orlando Senna

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

Genre: Music

Cast: Jorge Paulo

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Maurício do Valle

The path of Paraguayan immigrants who drive to Asuncion and then arrive in São Paulo. They are rural workers, musicians, vendors and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rafael Ponzi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rejane Medeiros

Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with Maria, who is facing problems in the family....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Salma Buzzar

A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zózimo Bulbul

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Conceição Senna

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jofre Soares

The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Alberto Riccelli

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugo Carvana

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Emmanuel Cavalcanti

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: José Marinho

A circus clown's life spirals out of control when his wife, a trapeze artist, dies during a performance, and, to his chagrin, their son vows to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Zilda Bethlem

Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel Barcellos

Who was it that caught me inside a drop of water? Mario Quintana

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuel Cavalcanti