Movies: Leonardo Villar

  • 1962
    The Given Word

    The Given Word (1962)

    The Given Word

    8.11962HD

    Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara's chu...

    The Given Word
  • 1997
    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

    01997HD

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

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
  • 1965
    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (1965)

    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

    7.11965HD

    Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies, is bitten up and left for dead, being rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again...

    The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga
  • 1966
    The Big City

    The Big City (1966)

    The Big City

    5.51966HD

    In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, l...

    The Big City
  • 1967
    Dangerous Game

    Dangerous Game (1967)

    Dangerous Game

    5.21967HD

    Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro...

    Dangerous Game
  • 1965
    Samba

    Samba (1965)

    Samba

    2.61965HD

    Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto). Favela-girl Belén (also Montiel) is the look-alike who takes her place, unaware sh...

    Samba
  • 1966
    O Santo Milagroso

    O Santo Milagroso (1966)

    O Santo Milagroso

    51966HD

    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 involvement with the sacristan, he accidentally starts the rumor that the church houses a miraculous statue of...

    O Santo Milagroso
  • 1982
    Amor de Perversão

    Amor de Perversão (1982)

    Amor de Perversão

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    Amor de Perversão
  • 1963
    Lampião, King of the Badlands

    Lampião, King of the Badlands (1963)

    Lampião, King of the Badlands

    7.51963HD

    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 the cangaceiros - bandits who roamed the Northeast of Brazil until the late 1930s....

    Lampião, King of the Badlands
  • 2007
    The Ballroom

    The Ballroom (2007)

    The Ballroom

    5.92007HD

    An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and de...

    The Ballroom
  • 2000
    Brave New Land

    Brave New Land (2000)

    Brave New Land

    52000HD

    Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of the continent, finds apparently nothing but wilderness and ‘uncivilized’ natives with strange ways of ...

    Brave New Land
  • 1981
    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema (1981)

    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

    51981HD

    About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors and teams that Chick Fowle worked and works with, also showing the possibility of renewal that Brazilian...

    Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
  • 1998
    Friendly Fire

    Friendly Fire (1998)

    Friendly Fire

    6.11998HD

    Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On ...

    Friendly Fire
  • 1967
    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967)

    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

    7.51967HD

    Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 19...

    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
  • 1968
    A Madona de Cedro

    A Madona de Cedro (1968)

    A Madona de Cedro

    61968HD

    Delfino, a quiet man who lives in Congonhas do Campo, a small historical town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is urged by his friend to steal the image of the Madona de Cedro (the Cedar Madonna), sculpted by Aleijadinho in the 18th century, fro...

    A Madona de Cedro
  • 2001
    Leonardo Villar - Um Homem Só

    Leonardo Villar - Um Homem Só (2001)

    Leonardo Villar - Um Homem Só

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    Leonardo Villar - Um Homem Só
  • 1966
    Amor e Desamor

    Amor e Desamor (1966)

    Amor e Desamor

    6.61966HD

    An existentialist drama that narrates one night in the life of a couple formed by an architect and university professor who has just left his job and a modern married woman, interested in a casual love affair....

    Amor e Desamor
  • 1996
    Enigma de um Dia

    Enigma de um Dia (1996)

    Enigma de um Dia

    01996HD

    A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter....

    Enigma de um Dia
  • 1964
    Procura-se Uma Rosa

    Procura-se Uma Rosa (1964)

    Procura-se Uma Rosa

    01964HD

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    Procura-se Uma Rosa