Luiz Carlos Lacerda Movies

In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio...

The critical success in France of How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman made possible dos Santos’ delirious science-fiction vision of free love in...

Judoka, filmmaker, producer and cultural organizer Cavi Borges has built a career driven by the same restless energy on and off the mat. The...

Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.

Inspired by the US paper “Gay Sunshine”, in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the dictatorship – the newspaper...

In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The...

An encounter of novelist Lúcio Cardoso and poet Murilo Mendes haunting ghosts with their characters.

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.

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the...

Poetic reconstruction of the unfinished film, directed by writer Lúcio Cardoso, from Minas Gerais, in 1949, in the fishing village of Itaipu /...

Lis, a 21-year-old woman, wanders through the streets of Rio de Janeiro carrying the absence of someone who is no longer there. Between memories,...

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an...

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

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.