O Menino Arco-Íris

Sinfonia Amazônica, or Amazon Symphony, was Brazil's first animated feature-length film, produced entirely by Anélio Lattini Filho over five years and finished in 1951. Like Disney's Fantasia, it tells several folk stories over orchestral music.

Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara's church, in the state capital. Upon the recovery of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. He makes it to the church, but the priest refuses to accept the cross once he discovers the context of Zé's promise.

Four couples go to a country seat. One of the girls is still a virgin, and his boyfriend proposes a game which changes the group behavior.

Reg owns the store "Tem Tudo... E Muito Mais" (Has Everything... And Much More). To satisfy his customers, he is forced to perform the most strange functions.

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.

Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober.

Anxious to please his boss, Roberto agrees to host the chief's lover in his own home, unaware of the problems this could cause among his family.

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.

For the launch of his new giant horoscope computer, famous astrologer Alex invites to his private island friends representing each of the 12 zodiac signs. During the welcome party, one of the guests is mysteriously murdered. Unable to leave the island, the others witness new deaths, always announced in advance by the computer.

Returning to his homeland after many years away, Juvenal, an agricultural engineer with liberal ideas, finds himself caught up in the social unrest on the island of Madeira that preceded the 1974 revolution, which is condemned by his brother Álvaro, an embroidery manufacturer and staunch conservative. Exposed to the romantic schemes devised by Álvaro, Juvenal vigorously defends the exploited workers and is reunited with Elisabeth, the great love of his youth. Wounded while taking part in a popular demonstration that is violently suppressed by the police, he is sentenced to exile on the island of Sal. Elisabeth decides to accompany him, announcing that she is expecting his child... eternity!

After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer him, torture him or redeem him.

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

Rui is determined to persuade Lucena to replace his horse-breeding operation with sugarcane cultivation and to jointly set up an ethanol plant. To this end, he forces a marriage between his son, Marcelo, and Lucena’s daughter, Diana. The "Black Beetle" intervenes in this plot. Lima, who, like Marcelo, seeks a way to defeat his rival, the car, pursues his goal by doing what he knows best: taming Cleide, the "other woman" in Marcelo's life. The Black Beetle acts as the connecting link, creating an atmosphere of fear and curiosity for both parties and driving the story toward an unexpected conclusion.

The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.

Pra Quem Fica, Tchau tells the story of a teenager from the interior who comes to Rio, financed by an uncle, and goes to live with a womanizer cousin.

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back from boarding school after killing a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.

The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of the cangaceiros - bandits who roamed the Northeast of Brazil until the late 1930s.

Considered a young terror among women, Ricardo unexpectedly begins to suffer from a strange phobia to noise pollution. That means that any noise during sex leads to a "sexual aversion". A famous psychologist - among other women - cannot cure him. The situation gets worse when his phobia jeopardizes his father's political pretensions. So the whole city, especially his father's girlfriend, decide to help find a cure for the boy.

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

A humble farmer aspiring for richness leaves his land to become a prospector. He finds a precious gem and hides it from his employer, for which he ends up beaten and tortured. After being released, he kills the perpetrators and flees to the big city. There he finds some criminals who will end up transforming him into the most powerful drug dealer and pimp of the underworld.

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we will revisit the places that shaped his life.

A large protest march of escaped slaves is an episode in the history of Chico Bondade and Boaventura, who had already become legendary for their difficult and daring missions.

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

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 corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

Fábio, a mediocre and broke writer, is evicted for unpaid rent and even ends up in jail after a police raid on a brothel. His life changes when he unexpectedly inherits the fortune of his wealthy uncle Casemiro — only for the old man to recover soon after. Suddenly wealthy, Fábio dives into high-society parties while trying to finish a “dictionary of sex” and turn his new lifestyle into personal and sexual success. He reconnects with his former lover Gina, who introduces him to Candy, a glamorous nightclub performer who becomes central to his fantasies and ambitions. As scandals unfold and secrets come to light — including Candy’s identity as a travesti — Fábio becomes trapped between desire, money, social appearances and his own insecurities, forcing him to confront what he really wants from life.

Rosario is a prostitute who lives in her married sister's house. When the latter wants to be a hooker too, she doesn't approve.