Movies: Dercy Gonçalves

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

A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness....

The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto....

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Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, ...

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Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him....

A group of explorers travels the unexplored regions of the Amazon....

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends....

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The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write....

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Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant....

Alligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife....

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registere...