José Joffily Movies

The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing...

Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true...

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years...

Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and...

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the...

Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood...

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

The forbidden love affair between Peri, an Indian, and the beautiful Ceci, a Portuguese white girl, in the 17th century Brazil.

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre...

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

In a humorous way, the film narrates the adventures - or misadventures - of a typical girl from the south of Rio de Janeiro who decides to go to the...

High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start...

A couple is charged with murdering a friend after discovering a fraud scheme at a data-processing center. They hide in a van, where they set up a...

Documentary about the oppression of a group of a families of the MST, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the...

The 1920s. A young woman's fiancé has a strange perversion: pricking his beloved's skin and sucking her blood. Adaptation of the short story...

A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute.

A Journalism intern makes her first report in a public office, getting lost in the bureaucratic intricacies.