Ana Maria Magalhães Movies

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

The friends Curió, Boroca (Dedé Santana), Mexelete and Bateia they venture in search of gold in the mine of Serra Pelada. The area is...

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from...

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through...

Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman...

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal...

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music...

The sexual fantasies of women are explored by three female directors.

Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São...

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a woman rebels against local morality after her child dies, with tragic results.

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.

Wanted by the police, a university professor flees to a hotel in the interior and causes changes in the lives of the owner of the establishment and...

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of...