Lucélia Santos Movies

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of...

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

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...

Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the...

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in...

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of...

Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

The situation in East Timor, a year after the ballot that decided its independence.

Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.

Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin....

Psuchological drama about a sucessful businesswoman who has not overcame ghosts of her past.

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for...

A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV...

Aiming to address how the environment has been mistreated since the beginning of the 20th century, the production brings back historical characters...

In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse...