Jofre Soares Movies

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search...

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an...

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...

Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness.

Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.

Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her...

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his...

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by...

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.

The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much...

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....

A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard.

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.

Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais,...

After killing a troublemaker, Cristino flees to a town in the Northeast and is forced to join Lampião's gang, where he becomes his right-hand...

Western spoof. Depicts the conflict between the leader of a gang of country bandits and his former protégé, now a police officer.

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

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.