Mair Tavares Movies

In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs...

Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent...

During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that...

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

The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s...

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de...

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.

Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator....

Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of...

Stela, a young Brazilian actress, decides to make a work on the letters exchanged between Latin American plastic artists in the 70s and 80s. She...

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...

Third part of Ruy Guerra's trilogy initiated in "Os Fuzis" (1964) and "A Queda" (1978).

The history of Simião Martiniano.

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from...

In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living...

Free adaptation of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro....