Movies: Ivan Cândido

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

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s R...

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde....

The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad....

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their...

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law....

Brazilian comedy in two segments. 'Theft of the Panties': Four friends are broke during Christmas. Genaro decides to rob a brothel because he thinks that the victims won't call the police. To get to know the place, one of the friends, Alfredo, disgui...

Mid-1970s. When the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian football team on the World Cup serve as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship. Under this context,...

In 1910, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, a man is expelled from his own land by the ruthless colonel who owns the sugar mill. He asks some outlaws to help him retrieve his land....

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High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start looking for young lovers at the local bordello. Their wives even make promises and novenas asking the disap...

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets....

João-Sem-Direção knows Carvalhaes that proposes a blow to him. John does not accept the proposal, but ends up earning a hefty cash in the game....

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After a powerful outlaw dies, a reporter interviews his lover and gets three different stories about the legendary man....

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Romantic biography of Maria Bonita, daughter of a poor farmer who was kidnapped by Lampião and became his lover....