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Report on the situation of bóias-frias in the interior of the State of São Paulo, as in the city of Itapetininga. These workers live in poor villages in urban areas and are taken by truck to work in the fields in the middle of the night. Men, women and children work hard in the countryside to earn a living for their family, but are unable to have land to plant. The system of bóias-frias is used by farmers, as there is no commitment to a monthly salary or portfolio registration; only hours worked are paid.

In São Paulo, a businessman wants to rehabilitate street children, called "trombinhas", through a social project. After being discouraged by the police, he seeks help from the coach of the Santos Futebol Clube youth team.

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

In 1910, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, a man is expelled from his own land by the ruthless colonel who owns the sugar mill. He asks some outlaws to help him retrieve his land.

A statuette bought in an antique shop in Tokyo may lead to the discovery of a great treasure.

A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes for a better life. When a rich white woman from the high society arrives to spend a few days away after ending a failed marriage, Antônio soon bonds with her and begins to change his plans.

Poor boy treats a sweet lemon tree as his only friend, talking to it, and learning important values in the process. But one day the tree must be cut.

An interview with Babalorixá Mário Miranda, a black religious leader in recife, Brazil, who enjoys carnival dressed as a woman.

Gerson Tavares interviews fishermen and observes the traditional fishing activity in danger of extinction.

Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.

A poor and beautiful young woman living in the backwoods of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil is protected by a peasant.

A film about Maurice Legeard who run a cineclub in Santos.

Experimental film by Haroldo Marinho Barbosa.

The loves and life of a beautiful Brazilian Indian woman.

In an imprecise time and country, General Zog, a neo-Nazi, sets up a concentration camp, with the direct help of a lieutenant and a doctor. Girls who live on the farms are kidnapped to continue the plan to create a pure breed. When the missing girls' parents hire a pair of mercenaries, Joe and Cat, to investigate what's going on, there are bullets and explosions everywhere!

Drama teacher and writer of soap operas keeps his frustrating marriage because he doesn't have the existencial courage to get divorced. But he meets a temperamental and rich student, with whom he engages in a neurotic relationship.

"The possessed is a very poor woman, ravaged by delusions and ghosts, until, driven by mysterious voices, she suddenly becomes another person, young, beautiful, insinuating. Her exploits make her the subject of a police chronicle. She seduces teenagers, attacks men, she becomes an insatiable wolf who arouses the wrath of the whole community against her. Revenge is not slow and a group intends to stone her. But she manages to lure her pursuers to a strange place where she faces them in struggle. unequal and wins ". (Extracted from Guide to Movies, 55)

Shortly before becoming a priest, a young man decides to run away from the seminary and goes to Rio de Janeiro. There he will face a series of problems, most of them related to carnal temptations.

The film addresses the problem of occupational accidents in Brazil, based on the lack of safety in quarries where workers are constantly victimized by the explosions.

A charming documentary on Brazilian sculptor Mario Cravo Jr. and his fountain project. What makes the documentary interesting beyond its topic is Oliveira's unusual approach; he tells the story of the sculpture project only through sometimes psychedelic pictures and music/noise without conventional narration.

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.

Deformed form by which the word "beast" (medieval weapon) is pronounced in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia and was still present in the cultural memory of the region.

A collection of testimonies from Brazilian indigenous people about the interests of FUNAI (National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples), multinational corporations, and large landowners behind the disastrous policy of indigenous emancipation in Brazil. Narrated by Fernanda Montenegro.

An american explorer organizes an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in search of a lost treasure.

Focusing on aerial and terrestrial scenes, it shows the urbanization of Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, according to a project by urban planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Arnulfo Silva, a former abandoned child, retells his childhood difficulties living on the streets.

After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.

a super 8 movie realized by Jomard Muniz de Britto, a brazillian director

The film documents the work of the primitive painter Chico da Silva seen in his neighborhood, with his people, his world, his life. Chico da Silva's painting, inspired by the fight between birds, fish and dragons originating from his prodigious fantasy, is presented in flash comparing his paintings with leisure movements from his daily life and subsequently analyzing his technique and style at the time that paints. The film has surprising statements from the painter about his life and life.

This film brings together blood, skin, and an eye as elements to be glimpsed in detail.