Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial...

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen...

Carlos is a young man from the São Paulo middle class who works for a big company during a time when foreign automobile industries were...

In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé...

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through...

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to...

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men...

The everyday life of a Belo Horizonte lower class neighborhood.