Sadi Cabral Movies

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

On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city....

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal...

A beautiful and poor woman buys herself a rich husband after inheriting a great deal of money.

Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang...

Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.

A large protest march of escaped slaves is an episode in the history of Chico Bondade and Boaventura, who had already become legendary for their...

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

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

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

An unlucky woman checks in a hotel pretending to be a French baroness so she can have 24 hours of dream before comitting suicide.

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the work of two young priests.

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as...