Ruy Polanah

ScreenPlay

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes w...

Bicho do Mato

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to...

The Emerald Forest

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of...

The Fifth Monkey

When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four...

Journey to the End of the Night

In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a...

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to co...

Quilombo

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

Tainá 2 - A New Amazon Adventure

The young warrior indian Tainá must now battle against biopirates, and is joined by a new boy from the big city...

Running Out of Luck

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingl...

Kuarup

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the...

O Cortiço

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a teneme...

Hell Hunters

A Nazi scientist, wanted as a war criminal, develops a spider serum that turns people into fascist Nazi zombies...

Land

The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants loo...

Orfeu

Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets E...

Il barbiere di Rio

Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by...

Para Viver Um Grande Amor

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich pa...

Tainá: An Amazon Adventure

A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfathe...

Tummy

A young boy escapes from an orphanage to find two magical creatures in the jungle. As he bonds with the younger...

Fish in a Barrel

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force hi...

Ganga Zumba

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Cristais de Sangue

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

Luzia Homem

After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men...

Malandro

In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a...

After Eight... Forever

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

The Guns

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population f...

Un animal doué de déraison

A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisone...

Bar Esperanza

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

Cobrador: In God We Trust

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of...

The Dolphin

According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village receives a mys...

Insônia

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

Mar Corrente

Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She rekindles her...

Black Goddess

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

Of Gods and the Undead

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already be...

Sweet Thieves

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

Eclipse

The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar e...