Anecy Rocha Movies

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

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

An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo José

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

After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geraldo del Rey

During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anecy Rocha

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

Old couple are being evicted and turn to their five children for help. Since no one can accommodate the two of them, the children decide to separate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rodolfo Arena

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

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

The eccentric members of a wealthy Brazilian family each go through personal torment, debauchery and intense guilt in this symbolic and gory film....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernanda Montenegro

A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique...

Genre: Western

Cast: Eliezer Gomes

After years lost in a ingrate job, Hugo decides to take a drastic measure: to compensate for the time he lost, he will rob the bank in which he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rubens Correia

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lúcia Rocha

Documentary about Maria Bethânia, at the very beginning of her career as a singer, when she arrived in Rio da Bahia to replace Nara Leão...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria Bethânia