Nuno Leal Maia Movies

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

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.

Movie director gets crazy while shooting a film, and goes to a mental institution. There, he leads a revolt, kidnapping a group of Human Rights...

A young man returns to the country and find surprises,

The film tells the story of Tainá, a 5 years old orphan Indian girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origin. Along...

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through...

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his...

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small...

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering...

Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another...

Sexual adventures of a prostitute's son and a bordello owner, who like to swap women.

Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich...

In the 1980s, a journalist sets out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared decades earlier. During his search, he goes...

Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress...

A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.