Movies: Toni Venturi

The Devil himself comes to Earth to open his own church and the world becomes a pandemonium of delights and confusions. Based on a short story by Machado de Assis, the most famous realistic Brazilian writer of the XIX century....

A sensitive drama located in São Paulo, Brazil, about a young doctor who gets involved with two men and a homeless community at the same time....

Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman wante...

A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life....

The clash of a libertarian school with the military dictatorship in the 60s. An exciting and little-known page in the history of public education in Brazil....

This revealing documentary about the Brazilian sex symbol goes deep into her career as she pivoted from dancer to singer to adult film star....

The story of João Gonçalves Filho, one of the great sportsmen in the country, who participated in seven Olympics and was one of those responsible for the most successful generation of Brazilian judo athletes of the Olympic Games....

A documentary that follows former members from guerrilla movements that fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil between late 1960's and early 1970's. They share stories about their routine and daily lives beyond the armed combat....

A doctor mistaken for a thief. A cleaning lady treated as a slave. A mother who lost her son murdered by the police. A Trans employee who is never promoted. What do these people have in common? Their skin color. A human and poetic documentary sewn to...

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes....

In honor of educator Paulo Freire , the Ministry of Education (MEC), through the Department of Distance Education (Seed), launches the documentary "Paulo Freire contemporaneous", by Toni Venturi. According to the director, the video takes up the orig...

Documentary on the social movement of homeless workers and the occupation of abandoned buildings in São Paulo, Brazil....