Movies: Thelma Reston

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a ...

The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions....

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for ...

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and,...

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrill...

The story of Fausta, a restless maid who will stop at nothing to get the life she deserves....

As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open hi...

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now f...

On the eve of an important surfing championship, a group of young friends travels along the Brazilian coast with the intention of training hard and having a chance to become professional in the sport. However, along the way, Guel, a surfer bum, falls...

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power....

The troubled adventures of a country novice who goes to the big city to work as a nanny, taking care of the young and rebel sons of a widow businessman....

Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias are sent in a rescue mission to the daughter of the Army's minister....

A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes...

Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proe...

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro....

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony bec...

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accid...

A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires....

An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth....

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals....