José Medeiros Movies

A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique...

Eugênio falls in love for Margarida, a poor girl who lives in his parents' farm. In order to avoid their love affair, the parents send him to a...

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the...

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande...

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the...

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects...

An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower.

Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can...

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

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.

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for...

Three young men from the beach neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro lead a carefree life, in spite of having no money. After meeting Denise, who presently...

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a...

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

Three boys and their uncle venture into the Amazon jungle in search of their missing grandfather who's been kidnapped by evil space robots!