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O AGENTE SECRETO
Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2025
In 1977 Brazil, technology specialist Marcelo, fleeing a mysterious past, returns to Recife in search of peace, but realizes the city is far from the refuge he seeks.
SÃO PAULO SOCIEDADE ANÔNIMA
Luiz Sérgio Person · 1965
Carlos is a young man from the São Paulo middle class who works for a big company during a time when foreign automobile industries were settling in Brazil. Shortly after, he accepts a job at a factory that makes automobile parts, where he becomes manager. To a certain extent, he is a family man who works hard, earns well and lives unsatisfied. Without any prospects in his life to change the condition he rejects, his last resort is escaping.
O REI DA NOITE
Héctor Babenco · 1975
In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he needs to get away from the girl and ends up getting involved with other women, including an obsessive relationship with a prostitute.
VIDAS SECAS
Nelson Pereira dos Santos · 1963
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.
RIO 40 GRAUS
Nelson Pereira dos Santos · 1955
On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city. As they navigate the various districts of Rio, they bear witness to a series of unfortunate events and encounters, unfolding a vivid tapestry of urban life in Rio de Janeiro during that period. These true misadventures shed light on the gritty reality of the city, unveiling its vibrant urban tapestry.
BOI NEON
Gabriel Mascaro · 2016
Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck he uses to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
HOJE EU QUERO VOLTAR SOZINHO
Daniel Ribeiro · 2014
Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.
ILHA DAS FLORES
Jorge Furtado · 1989
Aika, ragazza di quattordici anni, si trasferisce nella città di mare dove vive lo zio che la ospiterà durante il soggiorno parigino della madre, stilista di moda. Il padre sembra essere scomparso in mare durante una bufera con il suo yacht. Appena arrivata nella tranquilla cittadina, Aiko subisce un'altra perdita: a causa di un incidente stradale infatti, muore la sua cagnetta Puppy che si era portata da Tokyo. Per tale motivo il vecchio saggio del porto, che i ragazzi della spiaggia chiamano nonno Jem, le affida Spank: un grosso cucciolo di cane bianco con le orecchie nere il cui padrone era sparito in mare proprio come suo padre.
ENTREATOS
João Moreira Salles · 2004
Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, Lula is afraid that he will lose his freedom as president. Combined with Lula's candor, the film's observational style provides some very special insight into one of Brazil's most popular leaders.
MARIGHELLA
Wagner Moura · 2023
PIXOTE
Héctor Babenco · 1980
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
REFLEXÕES DE UM LIQUIDIFICADOR
André Klotzel · 2010
After receiving a patch, a blender suddenly gains consciousness. As it grapples with existential questions, it becomes the sole companion to the grieving wife of a missing man.
BRUNA SURFISTINHA
Marcus Baldini · 2011
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.
ENTRE ABELHAS
Ian SBF · 2015
Bruno is a young film editor who has just broke up his marriage with Regina, and returned living in his mother's house. Drowned in deep sorrow, something very weird happens in his life: people around him are gradually disappearing. But only for him. Some kind of blindness.
SONHOS ROUBADOS
Sandra Werneck · 2009
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.
BACURAU
Juliano Dornelles · 2019
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
ELETRODOMÉSTICA
Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2005
A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.
VINIL VERDE
Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2004
A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.
A DAMA DO LOTAÇÃO
Neville D'Almeida · 1978
Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.
CABRA MARCADO PARA MORRER
Eduardo Coutinho · 1984
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
O BANDIDO DA LUZ VERMELHA
Rogério Sganzerla · 1968
Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
BICHO DE SETE CABEÇAS
Laís Bodanzky · 2001
Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.
O HOMEM QUE COPIAVA
Jorge Furtado · 2003
A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.
CASA GRANDE
Fellipe Barbosa · 2014
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.
MEU PÉ DE LARANJA LIMA
Marcos Bernstein · 2013
Zezé (João Guilherme de Ávila) é um garoto de oito anos que, apesar de levado, tem um bom coração. Ele leva uma vida bem modesta, devido ao fato de que seu pai está desempregado há bastante tempo, e tem o costume de ter longas conversas com um pé de laranja lima que fica no quintal de sua casa. Até que, um dia, conhece Portuga (José de Abreu), um senhor que passa a ajudá-lo e logo se torna seu melhor amigo.
O PALHAÇO
Selton Mello · 2011
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
AQUARIUS
Timofey Zhalnin · 2016
This film is a metaphor for who we are, for where we come from? A secret held in the abyss. To read the message - through fear and prejudice, from imitation to communion, from meditation to movement. Dance to the horizon - from points of no return. The irony of our metamorphosis - in order to grow, the seed must die.
JOGO DE CENA
Eduardo Coutinho · 2007
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
TERRA ESTRANGEIRA
Walter Salles · 1996
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.
A VIDA INVISÍVEL
Karim Aïnouz · 2019
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
O ANO EM QUE MEUS PAIS SAÍRAM DE FÉRIAS
Cao Hamburger · 2006
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
BINGO: O REI DAS MANHÃS
Daniel Rezende · 2017
Augusto, um artista que sempre sonhou com seu lugar sob os holofotes, finalmente tem sua grande chance ao se tornar Bingo, um palhaço apresentador de um programa infantil de televisão que é sucesso absoluto. Uma cláusula no contrato não permite revelar quem é o homem por trás da máscara, produzindo em Augusto a frustração de ser o homem anônimo mais famoso do Brasil. Uma surreal história sobre a busca de um homem pelo reconhecimento de sua arte.
CAZUZA: O TEMPO NÃO PARA
Walter Carvalho · 2004
A vida louca que marcou o percurso profissional e pessoal de Cazuza: o sucesso com o Barão Vermelho, a carreira solo, as músicas, o comportamento transgressor e a coragem.
ELIS
Hugo Prata · 2016
The film tells the story of the energetic and pulsating singer Elis Regina since her arrival in Rio de Janeiro at age 19 until her tragic and early death. Despite all the difficulties, success comes fulminant and the life of Elis Regina gained national and international recognition, becoming undoubtedly considered today the greatest Brazilian singer of all time.
HOMEM COM H
Esmir Filho · 2025
Dono de uma voz inconfundível e de performances memoráveis, Ney Matogrosso morava com os pais e irmãos na pequena cidade de Bela Vista (MS). Os embates com o pai, que insistia que o menino “virasse homem”, levaram Ney a se afastar da família, antes de enveredar para a vida artística. Anos depois de sair de casa, em São Paulo, estreou como vocalista dos Secos e Molhados, dando início às performances históricas que o definiram como um dos maiores artistas brasileiros da atualidade.
RITAS
Oswaldo Santana · 2025
É no processo de “arqueologia pessoal”, que se apresenta através das brechas da vida, que a cantora Rita Lee mostra o que todos veem, de uma maneira que ninguém jamais viu: Rita poeta, compositora, instrumentista, escritora, eremita e musa. A vida pessoal de Rita e seu processo criativo são desvendados, revelando, assim, seu talento musical e sua capacidade de metamorfose no palco. A própria Rita guia a narrativa em entrevistas concedidas durante toda a sua carreira e depoimentos recentes e inéditos.
RITA LEE: MANIA DE VOCÊ
Guido Goldberg · 2025
O filme revisitará a trajetória e os desafios que a rainha do rock enfrentou ao longo da vida e contará com depoimentos de familiares, amigos e grandes nomes da música brasileira.
CARANDIRU
Héctor Babenco · 2003
Um médico se oferece para realizar um trabalho de prevenção a AIDS no maior presídio da América Latina, o Carandiru. Lá ele convive com a realidade dos cárceres, que inclui violência, superlotação das celas e instalações precárias. Porém, apesar de todos os problemas, o médico logo percebe que os prisioneiros não são figuras demoníacas, existindo dentro da prisão solidariedade, organização e uma grande vontade de viver.
CIDADE BAIXA
Sérgio Machado · 2005
Deco (Lázaro Ramos) e Naldinho (Wagner Moura) se conhecem desde garotos, sendo difícil até mesmo falar em um sem se lembrar do outro. Eles ganham a vida fazendo fretes e aplicando pequenos golpes a bordo do Dany Boy, um barco a vapor que compraram em parceria. Um dia surge Karinna (Alice Braga), uma stripper que deseja arranjar um gringo endinheirado no carnaval de Salvador a quem a dupla dá uma carona. Após descarregarem em Cachoeira, Deco e Naldinho vão até uma rinha de galos. Naldinho aposta o dinheiro ganho com o frete, mas se envolve em confusão e termina recebendo uma facada. Deco defende o amigo e ataca o agressor, mas os dois são obrigados a fugir no barco, rumo a Salvador. Enquanto Naldinho se recupera, Deco tenta conseguir dinheiro para ajudar o amigo. Ao chegarem em Salvador a dupla reencontra Karinna, que está agora trabalhando em uma boate. Aos poucos a atração entre eles cresce, criando a possibilidade de que levem uma vida a três.
ESTÔMAGO
Marcos Jorge · 2007
Raimundo Nonato vem do Nordeste para São Paulo atrás de melhores oportunidades na vida. O que salva o rapaz de ser mais um mendigo ou sem-teto na grande capital é um dom quase mágico para cozinhar, que é descoberto por acaso pelo dono de um botequim. A história, em paralelo, mostra Raimundo na prisão, o que nos leva a crer que seu sucesso como cozinheiro lhe rendeu algum problema sério.
TROPA DE ELITE 2: O INIMIGO AGORA É OUTRO
José Padilha · 2010
O destino da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e de Nascimento se cruzam em "Tropa de Elite 2", quando suas obrigações de pai se chocam com as de policial. Mais maduro, estratégico e solitário, o agora Coronel Nascimento faz o bope crescer e coloca o tráfico de drogas de joelho. Isto apenas para descobrir que na segurança pública do Rio de Janeiro nada é o que parece. O sistema se reinventa e descobre como lucrar sem o intermédio do tráfico. Em perseguição ao caminho trilhado pelo sistema, Nascimento vai além dos limites do quartel, revelando as ligações das milícias com o Estado. E o preço por essa descoberta é alto: o inimigo agora é outro.
MARIGHELLA
Isa Grinspum Ferraz · 2012
Líder comunista, vítima de prisões e tortura, parlamentar, autor do mundialmente traduzido Manual do Guerrilheiro Urbano, Carlos Marighella atuou nos principais acontecimentos políticos do Brasil entre os anos 1930 e 1969, e foi considerado o inimigo número 1 da ditadura militar brasileira. Mas quem foi esse homem, mulato, baiano, poeta, sedutor, amante de samba, praia e futebol, cujo nome foi por décadas impublicável?
HOLOCAUSTO BRASILEIRO
Armando Mendz · 2016
A premiada jornalista Daniela Arbex revela as atrocidades do hospital psiquiátrico Colônia, onde mais de 60 mil pessoas foram mortas ao longo de décadas.
VITÓRIA
Andrucha Waddington · 2025
Nina é uma mulher idosa que vive sozinha e se sente angustiada com a crescente violência em seu bairro. Em meio a conflitos com os vizinhos, ela decide filmar a movimentação de traficantes de drogas da sua janela, na esperança de colaborar com a polícia. Após meses registrando as atividades suspeitas, sua iniciativa atrai a atenção de um jornalista, que se aproxima de Nina e se propõe a apoiá-la em sua missão.
AOS TEUS OLHOS
Carolina Jabor · 2017
Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.
CINEMAGIA
Alan Oliveira · 2017
Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.
A JAULA
João Wainer · 2022
It's just another luxury car being stolen on a street in São Paulo... or not. A thief easily gets into the SUV parked on a quiet street, but when he tries to get out, he discovers he is trapped, without water or food.
8/1 – A DEMOCRACIA RESISTE
Julia Duailibi · 2024
Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced the coup threat of January 8, 2023, a recent trauma in the country's history and revealing something that still remains hidden.
MOTEL DESTINO
Karim Aïnouz · 2024
Dayana lives an abusive marriage with former police officer Elias, owner of Motel Destino. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel after messing up a hit and going on the run, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navigate a dance of power and desire, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges.
BABILÔNIA 2000
Eduardo Coutinho · 2001
Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.
EDIFÍCIO MASTER
Eduardo Coutinho · 2002
"Master" is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro's neighborhood for nightlife. Over the course of four weeks in 2001, Eduardo Coutinho's film crew rented one of the 276 apartments and used it as home base to make a film about the building's residents. We get to know the building manager, who succeeded in turning the troubled residence into a family complex within just a few years. Using interviews and a few stolen moments in the corridors of the building, Coutinho explores this world. Most of the building's residents come from the lower middle class and are just getting by, but that's just about the only thing they have in common - so many people, so many stories, sometimes told in a self-confident tone, sometimes with averted eyes. The fact that a film crew is interested in their stories puzzles some of them. Hope, fear, dreams, memories, love and loneliness all appear from behind the doors of this average apartment building.
TROPA DE ELITE
José Padilha · 2007
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
O AUTO DA COMPADECIDA 2
Guel Arraes · 2024
After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.
O AUTO DA COMPADECIDA
João Falcão, Guel Arraes, Adriana Falcão · 1999
Baseado na peça teatral homônima de Ariano Suassuna, O Auto da Compadecida é uma comédia que mistura regionalismos e religiosidade para contar a história de João Grilo e Chicó.
MÃE SÓ HÁ UMA
Anna Muylaert · 2016
Pierre is seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his younger sister Jacqueline, spoiling them both. But when he discovers that she stole him from a hospital when he was a new born baby, Pierre’s life changes dramatically. In her new film, director Anna Muylaert explores the mother-child relationship through the eyes of a rebellious son whose whole world unravels overnight.
CIDADE DE DEUS
Fernando Meirelles · 2002
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
CENTRAL DO BRASIL
Walter Salles · 1998
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
UMA FAMÍLIA FELIZ
José Eduardo Belmonte · 2024
In a happy family perfectly protected in a gated community, a mother is harshly accused of hurting her twin daughters and newborn baby. However, the truth behind the high walls may reveal unexpected cruelty.
AINDA ESTOU AQUI
Walter Salles · 2024
In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.
QUE HORAS ELA VOLTA
Anna Muylaert · 2015
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
SANEAMENTO BÁSICO
Jorge Furtado · 2007
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
DEMOCRACIA EM VERTIGEM
Petra Costa · 2019
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
