Emmanuel Cavalcanti

Amuleto

Antonio das Mortes

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Ant...

Entranced Earth

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the...

Quilombo

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibl...

Bye Bye Brazil

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé d...

The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enem...

Tent of Miracles

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in...

Summer Showers

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approxi...

Cristais de Sangue

Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with Maria, who...

Bahia

The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bah...

Os Trapalhões no Auto da Compadecida

In the small town of Taperoá João Grilo and confusion Chicó live setting, addressing a sacristan and a humble b...

The Naked Man

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

Sonho Sem Fim

The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeir...

Copacabana Fools Me

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He...

The King of Rio

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Garden of War

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to g...

O Bom Burguês

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictators...

Black Goddess

A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken pri...

Parceiros da Aventura

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

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement...

El Justicero

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire o...

Sweet Thieves

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produc...

Urubus e Papagaios

High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The...

Sagarana: O Duelo

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and br...

The Amulet of Ogum

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his...

Ajuricaba, o Rebelde da Amazônia

In the 17th century, to guarantee the possession of the region, disputed with Spanish and Dutch pirates, the Po...

O Jogo da Vida

The dreams and problems of three friends: Malagueta, an inveterate gambler; Perus, former factory worker who ab...

Milagrez

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.

Polêmica

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista.

Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeopl...

Padre Cícero: Os Milagres de Juazeiro

Noites Paraguayas

The path of Paraguayan immigrants who drive to Asuncion and then arrive in São Paulo. They are rural workers, m...

O Coronel e o Lobisomem

O Forte

O Grande Palhaço

A circus clown's life spirals out of control when his wife, a trapeze artist, dies during a performance, and, t...

No Tempo de Glauber