Nelson Filma o Rio 2021

The city of Rio de Janeiro in the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos contextualized by critic Rodrigo Fonseca.

Cinema Novo 2016

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo 1989

Humberto Mauro: Eu Coração Dou Bom 1979

A Noiva da Cidade 1978

When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done.

Entrevista de Humberto Mauro a David Neves e Alex Viany 1977

Celebrating his 80th birthday, pioneer Brazilian filmmaker Humberto Mauro talks about his life, work, and the project "A Noiva da Cidade".

Mauro, Humberto 1975

Documentary about Humberto Mauro, his work and its importance.

O Sonho e a Máquina 1974

Nelson Filma 1971

Sol Sobre a Lama 1963

A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos street market.

Five Times Favela 1962

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

The Wind Rose 1957

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Ana 1955

A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.

Rua sem Sol 1954

A poor girl must find the money to pay for her blind sister's eyesight operation.

Carnival in Caxias 1954

O Saci 1953

Two kids and a living, talkative doll attempt to catch a mulatto boy-like, supernatural one legged figure known as the Saci-Pererê, that enjoys playing pranks on the farms.

Needle in a Haystack 1953

Mariana is a young woman from the interior of Minas Gerais who leaves for Rio de Janeiro in search of a man who seduced her and got her pregnant. But the rascal man gave her the false address, with only a photo as a reference. Staying at an uncle's house, she is faced with the difficulties of living in the big city, seeing that finding her husband in Rio is like looking for a needle in a haystack.