Gilson Moura

In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.

Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.

Monica, a naive schoolgirl from a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, meets Virginia, a former neighbor, now living in Copacabana. Influenced by her, she decides to take on a double life: in the morning she is the suburban girl, in the afternoon she attends a brothel in the South Zone. One day she meets Flávio, a friend and eventual lover of Virginia. Flávio falls in love with the purity of Monica and wants to drive away her friends, for considering Virginia a bad company for her beloved.

In the late 19th century, Jesuíno Brilhante swears to avenge his cousin, the republican and abolitionist Botelho, who was killed by powerful landlords. Government troops and a rival family unite to hunt down Jesuíno, who has assembled his own band of armed men.

After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men of Brazilian "Sertão". As a grown-up, she sets out to find her parent's murderer, but ends up discovering love.

Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot.

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.

A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive

Angela superbe Brésilienne est envoyée en prison pour le meurtre d'un pourvoyeur de drogue. Sa beauté excite les passions de tous, aussi bien celles des prisonniers que des gardiens. La révolte éclate dans la prison, Angela s'enfuit dans l'enfer de la jungle amazonienne et doit se défendre comme une bête sauvage.

Cunda vit profondément dans la brésilienne forêt tropicale et a l' intention de faire assez d' argent pour qu'il puisse épouser une veuve dans son village. Cependant, ses échanges - la capture des serpents pour les scientifiques - paie très peu d' argent, et il est en concurrence directe avec d' autres prétendants. Un jour, Cunda est mordu par un serpent , et il rampe à la rivière pour récupérer. Tout en passant par la reprise déchirante, il a une hallucination de quatre chimpanzés assis dans la rivière. Récupéré, il rentre chez lui et trouve les quatre chimpanzés en attente pour lui, et ses efforts pour les chasser sûr. Sachant que les chimpanzés ne sont pas indigènes au Brésil , il décide qu'ils sont une sorte de don surnaturel pour lui. Croire cela, il décide de les emmener à "la ville" pour les vendre.

Carlão is a taxi driver who experiences a drama of conscience after fleeing bank robbers leave a suitcase with stolen money in his car: he doesn't know whether to hand it over to the police, running the risk of being accused of being an accomplice in the robbery, or whether to use the money to solve his problems.

Opposite Lives tells the story of Miguel (Leo Rosa), a young rich man of a traditional family, and Joana (Maytê Piragibe), a student and tourist guide who lives in a slum. Although dating an elegant and rich fashion designer, Erínia (Lavínia Vlasak), Miguel and Joana fall in love for each other and they decide to get married.