Dionísio Azevedo Movies

Based on Erico Verissimo's masterpiece, O Sobrado follows the Terra-Cambará family during the siege imposed to their house by enemies due to...

The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of...

A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran...

Set in Brazil, this drama is based on a short story by Oscar Wilde about a fisherman who meets and falls in love with a mermaid, giving up his soul...

Intrigues and mystery involve the murder of Vitor, a member of an important family, just when he was trying to save his economic empire from...

Nhô Quim has only one dream in his life: to eat red meat. He meets Carula, a young woman anxious to get married, who promises him that in their...

A pastor and a priest compete for the religious leadership of the population of a small town. When the pastor tries to prevent his sister's...

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea. To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese...

Meant principally for a sympathetic audience, whether Catholic or not, this routine story about a priest's receiving the call to the cloth may be a...

A 1976 crime film

A small town in Brazil is the background for this thriller about a murder, disclosing corruption among the leaders of the region.