João Acaiabe Movies

Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião,...

A family with financial difficulties has a brilliant idea: to make their daughter Lindinha get pregnant of the famous singer Ivan Cláudio to...

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...

Bixiga, heart of São Paulo. Jerusa, a resident of a house aged by time, on a special day, receives Silvia, an opinion pollster who circulates...

If the Sítio gang’s imagination usually knows no bounds, just imagine what happens when they decide to embark on a "Journey to the Sky"!...

The animals of Capoeirão dos Tucanos are terrified: jaguar hunters have scattered menacing traps throughout the woods. The Sítio gang...

"And God said, Take thy son, and bring him to the land which I will show thee."

Pedrinho goes hunting in Capoeirão dos Tucanos, the virgin forest of Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, and meets the Saci, who tells him the...

A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of...

Three black teenagers walk around town. The two boys laugh at their own racist jokes while the girl watches them in silence.

The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho -- and soon finds out he's spending all their money on gambles and has mistresses all over the city. Vadinho...

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as...

The son of a millionaire who owns gold mines in Transopia, Africa, Antoine Leblanc, who lives in a mansion in Rio, one day receives a letter from his...

A comedy based on a true story about singer Raul Seixas.

Tribute to the world of soccer in Brazil. Group of ex-soccer players gather in a bar in São Paulo to remember old stories of their prime.