Joana Fomm Movies

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo José

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cassiano Carneiro

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sérgio Hingst

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joana Fomm

Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geneviève Grad

A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ney Latorraca

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rossana Ghessa

Neglected wife tells husband about mysterious deaths occurred by the influence of Iemanjá, Afro-Brazilian deity, goddess of the waters

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sérgio Hingst

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joana Fomm

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nelson Xavier

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leila Diniz

This story begins with Marcelo's funeral. His family, his fiancée Lúcia and three suspicious men are the only people accompanying the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Oswaldo Loureiro

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

A mirror bought in an auction changes the life of an executive and his wife. They become sexually aroused under the influence of the strange object,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hileana Menezes

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

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

Three ghosts are trapped in a house and haunt each new resident in order to finish their mission on Earth so they can move on to the next life. That...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Felipe Abib

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Domingos de Oliveira

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joana Fomm

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Selma Egrei

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo José

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denise Bandeira

The life and times of Brazilian singer/songwriter Dolores Duran.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joana Fomm

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugo Carvana

Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mário Gomes

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ankito

Genre: Crime

Cast: Carlos Alberto

Bernadinho and Pedro are students and face the classic tasks of fulfilling school obligations, taking good grades, being well behaved and complying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danilo Gentili

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danton Mello

The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family...

Genre: History

Cast: Leonardo Miggiorin

Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joana Fomm

"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo José

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

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Cast: John Herbert

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joana Fomm

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Cast: Helio Souto

Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marco Nanini

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stepan Nercessian

Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Mayer