Movies: Dercy Gonçalves

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

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals....

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The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto....

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago....

Januário is a con man who, with the help of his equally con-artist friends, stays at the luxurious Hotel Palácio, posing as a rich cocoa farmer in order to rob and deceive tourists. Ananásia is a widow who also becomes a guest at the same hotel, with...

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Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends....

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Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant....

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him....

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A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness....

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea an...

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write....

A group of explorers travels the unexplored regions of the Amazon....

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewing, Chacrinha changed Brazilian television forever and expressed a Brazil that was around it, but was...

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The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registere...