Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands 1976 ( 6.8)

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.

Father’s Chair 2012 ( 7)

Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself.

The Storytellers 2003 ( 7.3)

A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.

N/A N/A ( 6)

Sow J: Afro Fado 2024

Idade Óssea – Um Filme em Sete Quadros 2022

Through a stimulant intercross of techniques -which incorporates not only photography but also traditional animation and stop motion, among others- Isabel Aboim Ingles constructs a collage that is so playful as it is personal, in which she reflects on the pass of time, ages, aches and human nature.

Color Out of Space 2020 ( 6.05)

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

Canto 2024

When night falls, a man pierces the darkness and encounters a monstrous being that speaks to him in an unknown tongue. Night after night he gives himself over to this obsession, trying to understand what the shadows hide. He tries to photograph it, draw it, but is consumed by the darkness.

The Jew 1996 ( 5.8)

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.

Portugaru San - O Sr. Portugal em Tokushima 1993

Theatrical dramatization of Island of Loves.

N/A N/A

Hermeto, The Champ 1981 ( 10)

Photographs present Hermeto Paschoal in the middle of the instruments he plays in the studio in his house. The rehearsals where the sounds are discovered and improvisation sets the tone. Hermeto's testimonies on the self-taught construction of his theoretical knowledge about music and his political position on the market. The musicians who are part of his band talk about the joint process of creation and the admiration they feel for the multi-instrumentalist. The creation of Hermetus from the sounds of bees and next to the frods. The use of unusual objects made of iron and the use of the body itself to generate new sounds.

Pára-me de Repente o Pensamento 2015 ( 6.4)

A cup of coffee, a cigarette. A coin, another cup of coffee. Patients roam the halls. They walk alone. Waiting. Another smoke, a burning cigarette. Therapies that appeal to the senses. Routines that pull them back to reality. It's life repeating itself at psychiatric hospital spaces'. Lucidity and madness live together. From the outside world comes an actor in search of his character for a theatre play, diving into the inner world of schizophrenia. Patients are part of the creation of the character. Amidst the haze, the actor finds a poem by Ângelo de Lima, an alienated. The theatre character is born. Cinema documents it.

Súlu S'Áua 2023

An exploration of an island dominated by violence and ghosts, where the only solution for the return to peaceful coexistence, between the world of the living and that of the departed, is to settle the debts of the past.

Salazar, Deus, Pátria, Maria 1996

1996 TV film of the Maria do Céu Ricardo play.

Curral dos Segredos - O Filme 2025

Os Caretas, a group of villagers and friends from São João de Londres, decide to enter the Secret stockyard. For two weeks, they face a wide range of challenges set by the Voice of the house. Who will be able to endure until the end? Who will be the winner?

Quelé do Pajeú 1969 ( 6.7)

A man seeks revenge after his sister get raped by an unknown foreign, identified only by scar and a missing finger. But his payback journey is a long way and bears its surprises.

A Batalha dos Sete Anos 1968

Investigation into the seven years that followed the closure of Companhia Vera Cruz, in 1955, which marked a period of crisis for national film production in Brazil.