Discover Movies

Three people wake up together in an apartment in São Paulo. A photo shoot. An accepted proposal. A place in ruins. He, She and Ana.

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 amulet bearing Ogum's blessings. As time goes by, he becomes a valuable member of a mobster's hit-team, but ends up joining a group of people who resist his original employers.

Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...

Ozório is a man who lives alone in an isolated place. He spends his days listening to rock on the radio, while mourning for the loss of his wife. This is until a movement in the sky breaks his loneliness.

Aromantic people share their own experiences and perspectives on cinema, a medium dominated by romance standardized by normativity. Interviewees reveal how the way cinema portrays romantic relationships has affected them from childhood to the present day.

In the movie, Eduardo Moscovis is Danilo, a stage director obsessed with the injustice committed against XIX century farmer Manoel da Motta Coqueiro, case that initiated the process of extinction of death penalty in Brazil. Incited by a beautiful and mysterious woman, Danilo takes a fateful decision. He stages a play about the case with himself as Motta Coqueiro and psychiatric patients playing all the other parts. When the borders between reality and fantasy start to blend, Danilo relives the historical facts in first person, all the time conscious of the tragic doom of his character. Full with uncommon characters and surprising turns, the movie approaches the issue of death penalty in a refreshing new perspective.

After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief.

A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.

While still a child, Lollipop falls in love with her orphaned cousin Silvio, who has been raised as a member of the family by her father, Dr. Arnaldo, a highly respected government official. Years pass, and to Lollipop's dismay, Silvio becomes engaged to her cousin Leticia. During the engagement party, the enraged Lollipop seduces Silvio, and sometime later, she reveals to Leticia that she is pregnant as a result of the encounter.

The story of Jesus, according to the St Matthew version of "The New Testament".

In a very claustrophobic environment, this horror movie tells the story of Alma: a shy girl who gets stuck with Eduardo inside an elevator.

The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.

Rafael is an aspiring painter who has just arrived at Heitor's atelier, an experienced artist, but his entrance seems to arouse a series of consternations that go beyond his ordinary duty as a disciple.

Olga is on her way home to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Daniel is on his way to Mexico. They end up in the same airport 24 hour restaurant killing time before their flights. They never expected that the casual conversation with a stranger would change their lives forever.

Marc manages his work time with his wife and son throughout the week, but, even facing tiredness and boss charges, he still enjoys time with his family and even cook dinner.

A millionaire businessman must deal simultaneously with the kidnap of his wife and his worker's strike.

Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his.

The saga of Severino, a poor guy living in the back country of Northeast Brazil, leaving for the big city of Recife, in search of a better life.

Matías and Itaii, two young individuals from entirely different worlds, share a mutual attraction. In their quest to strengthen their bond, they embark on a journey that leads them to reveal their most intimate stories.

The paths of two neighbors (one, a practitioner of an Afro-Brazilian religion, and the other, a protestant) start to cross when a leakage opens a hole between the wall dividing their two homes.

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 life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad.

A fictional love letter provides a real encounter.

Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.

Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days alone in the apartment where he lives with his mother in Rio de Janeiro, a mysterious visitor comes knocking on your door: John, as a ghost, asking to hide there.

A Lebanese immigrant who has lived in São Paulo for many years is robbed and arrested in the trunk of his own car. In addition, a woman who witnessed the theft is also positioned there. The two complete strangers are forced to share this small, clueless environment where the thieves are headed.

An elderly man in the countryside sees a painting of his wife that makes him have fragments of memory of an old flame, and needs help of his wife to remember.

In this short film the director reflects on the feeling of being on the wrong path in your life, that you have no control over your own life. But coming to the conclusion, it's life, we all go through it, and without these moments of fall we don't learn to live.

Maria is a gifted girl, who faces a hard life in the fields. She is happy when her father decides to remarry, thinking that he will rejoice again. However, to the girl's despair, her stepmother is bad and starts to mistreat her. Maria still has to face the devil's tricks. Adaptation of the miniseries shown in 2004.

Trying to find colors in a gray world, a painter gets lost in a tangle of herself.

In a fantastical and humorous perspective, Zinho and his Kombi van work transporting the unalive to "there" on their own afterlife journeys to settle their accounts.

Exhausted by the devastation that ADHD has caused to her finances, studies, and friendships, Ana decides to give herself one last chance by participating in a job interview.

Carlos, a married lawyer, gets involved with one of his clients. But the relationship turns into an obsession. The woman understands she'll never manage to separate Carlos from his wife, and decides to leave him, running away with another man.

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

In a near future, Jesse deals with the feeling of being just a cog for Y, a mega corporation which seems to always be present with them.

On his last day in Brazil, Dut spends time with his friends around the neighborhood reminiscing about old times and longing for the future. In a cathartic moment, they perform "Times" by Flying Kites. TEMPOS is a celebration of moments past, the fraternity of friendship while growing up, and the hope for a future where there will be more time.

"they lived and laughed und loved end left" — a filmed diary of 2013

Two moments in the life of Pedro. First in 1997, he lives with his family in Rio de Janeiro and works at Gás do Brasil, a company that is undergoing a tough restructuring process, with layoffs and early retirements. Soon, privatization will come. In the second moment, two years later, Pedro lives retired in his hometown Barbosa, in the company of his childhood memories, his dog and his girlfriend. By interweaving these two moments in time, we put ourselves in Pedro's skin and experience his fears and delights.

The special features 22 real testimonials from people like Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marielle Franco, who fought racism and freedom in favor of justice.

Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.

Ultimately, who are you?