Movies:

Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married wo...

Young guy from the poor Northeast region of Brazil comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. Naturally, he is faced with many adversities along the way....

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos....

Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life....

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

Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival....

A short contemporary story about the crew of a small Brazilian fishing boat. Part of the anthology The State of the World....

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The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with ...

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Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums, where life changes very quickly in the short space of time....