As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends he also becomes the vampire of the cinemateque.

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he’s behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside….

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of…

Young man inherits small fortune from his old uncle, on condition he lives in the old man’s house for a time. Soon the uncle’s spirit begins to manifest itself through…

Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.

Bruno is a physician whose license had been revoked, due to some ethical problems in the past. He gathers some criminals to kidnap the children of two powerful bankers. While…

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally…

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist’s wife, who…

Joaquim (Raul Cortez) becomes crazy and convinces himself that he is the messiah incarnated. With the desperate support of his miserable village, he will start a holy terror movement.

A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves. Directed by Billy Davis (as J. P. de Carvalho).

This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the “cafajestes”). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady…

Banned by Brazil’s Federal Department of Public Safety, Rio, 40 Graus is a landmark film that ushered in the wave of Neorealist cinema in Brazil – Cinema Novo. The film…

A naughty boy paints his grandfather’s glasses while he sleeps. Upon awakening, the grandfather is frightened by the imagined blindness, creating a series of confusions in the house. Brazil’s first…

It depicts the notorious criminal incident that had occured in Rio de Janeiro.