Movies

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues...

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only...

An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.

In a large house in Salvador lives a family: Hercules, Julia, two of the couple's nephews, Hercules' father-in-law, and two maids. Hercules is a...

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

A short contemporary story about the crew of a small Brazilian fishing boat. Part of the anthology The State of the World.