Antonio Luiz Mendes Movies

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life...

One of the most important events in Brazilian history, the Búzios Revolt of 1798 was led by dozens of black men who rose up to overthrow the...

Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was one of the leaders of the marginal poetry...

A street singer, a former prostitute and her jealous husband, two thieves, a teacher and two children. All strangers. All in the same place. Five...

Flute player Carlos Malta searches for traditional pife players and the mutual dependencies they share with the contemporary music to which he...

When the media report bizarre events in Copacabana, suspicions fall on a lonely sixty-year-old with a reclusive and methodical personality.

With Brasilia as a setting, the film tries to recreate the political environment in Brazil when civilians were able to found new political parties,...

Sebastian, a novice in a post-apocalyptic Brazilian monastery, prepares to be ordained while struggling with intense doubts. Before priesthood, he...

Film Editor/Director Ricardo Miranda makes a homage to his friend Paulo Cezar Saraceni

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to...

Mission 115 was the name given by DOI-CODI (an army repression body during the military dictatorship) to a supposed "vigilance" operation in Rio de...

Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of...

Lucas and Felipe spend their first day of vacation together wearing out jokes and hanging out. But beneath this apparent normality, Lucas’...

Antero and Maria Araújo's story is the shortcut chosen by the director to show life in Maraima, a small town in the state of Ceará,...

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...

It tells the story of a Brazilian filmmaker, Lucas. When his mother, Alice, dies in Belo Horizonte, he searches for his family's Portuguese roots...