Anselmo Duarte Filmes

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

In São Paulo, a businessman wants to rehabilitate street children, called "trombinhas", through a social project. After being discouraged by...

Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for...

italian documentary

An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer...

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor"...

A man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her...

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

Sílvia Nogalis, a renowned concert pianist, prefers her career to her marriage. On the night she performs Beethoven's "Appassionata", she...

The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.

A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.

The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents,...

Disagreements between brothers and marital infidelity are just some of the consequences that the discovery of a valuable diamond causes.

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the...

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...

The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".

A fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an...

Two friends grow together in the same neighborhood but, as adults, take different paths in life. One becomes an honest worker, and the other gets...