Antônio Abujamra Movies

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

At a poker table, five players discuss the possibility of having, in the Olympic Games, instead of the bow and arrow, the game of poker as an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sérgio Mamberti

In the midst of a disguised civil war, a cowboy and an executive settle the accounts of Brazilian social apartheid. Taking kidnapping as a starting...

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Cast: Antônio Abujamra

Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Othon Bastos

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Abujamra

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Ignez

A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Marco Ricca

In the 19th century, rich farmer with a passion for music dreams of having an orchestra. He hires a conductor, to help him organize the musicians....

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Cast: Leonardo Vieira

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lima Duarte

A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Abujamra

Raimundo, film producer, asks financial aid to his friend and producer J.C. to evaluate his own project. J.C. conditions his support to a change in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antônio Abujamra

Genre: Animation

Cast: Marcelo Tas

From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arnaldo Antunes

In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Glória Pires

A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007),...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo Autran

A deep dive into the life and work of Brazilian actress Maria Alice Vergueiro. The documentary explores her turbulent beginning in the theatrical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria Alice Vergueiro

Fred is a blind boy who lives alone with his mother. Out of his dull routine, in which nothing ever changes, he speculates continually about the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francisco Milanez

William is a middle-aged writer who lives alone in a small, untidy house and can't settle down doing what he loves. Confused and distressed, he...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Rômulo Braga

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

A middle-aged, wealthy man who lives in an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo, goes to put on his shoes and finds that his foot is no longer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Abujamra

MUSIKA is a small experiment about cinema, sound and the city. Freely inspired by the character Lulu from expressionist theatre

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Cast: Antônio Abujamra

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Felipe Montanaro

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Cast: Antônio Abujamra

This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Itamar Assumpção

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 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

"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Milhem Cortaz

The life of Carlota Joaquina, the Spanish infanta who met the prince of Portugal when she was only 10 years old and was immensely disappointed with...

Genre: History

Cast: Marieta Severo

A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elliott Gould

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gilberto Gil

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Laerte Coutinho

In a monologue, a man explains his thoughts on the exploitation of Brazil's native people's resources.

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Cast: Antônio Abujamra

In a monologue, a man expresses his distaste for the artistic community.

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Cast: Antônio Abujamra

In a monologue, a man expresses his views over the international selling of the Amazon rainforest.

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Cast: Antônio Abujamra

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Celso Martinez Corrêa