Pernambuco Movies

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots...

A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.

Recorded at Auditório Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo , on 24 and 25 June 2006 , the album features the biggest hits singer-songwriter Lenine's career...

In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both...

A ritual of unknown nature condemns its main participant to a hideous fate.

This short film follows Pelé, a retired nurse who looks back on his time as a Mateus in the century-old Bumba Meu Boi group, Boi Tira-Teima....

In the neighborhood of Peixinhos, located between the cities of Olinda and Recife, fragments and pieces of memory are contested amid abandonment.

The Governor of Pernambuco, Sérgio Loreto, and politicians from his cabinet pose for the camera. The celebrations of the Centennial of the...

A young man sitting on his couch realizes that in one minute, things can happen in different ways.

Short by Jomard Muniz de Britto