João Ramiro Mello Movies

This Brazilian film is set during the period of its initial colonial discovery and settlement. The title refers to a word the native peoples used for...

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects...

After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies,...

Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his...

A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos street market.

Documentary short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal...

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

After escaping from a penitentiary, six women begin a trail of passion and death in the search for survival.

A professor faces a double of himself and hires a detective to find out who that is and what are his real intentions.

In the hinterland of Paraíba, the small wooden mills powered by animal traction, called “bolandeiras”, are doomed to disappear.

A report on Sarney's inauguration as the governor of the Maranhão state. His promises are heard alongside images of the grim reality.

Otavio has to find and marry Madame Bettina's daughter if he wants to inherit her fortune.

In rural Brazil, villagers battle wealthy land barons for the sake of their own survival.

The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's...

Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer's history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of...