Nuno Leal Maia Movies

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small...

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering...

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through...

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his...

A story about the fantasies of a married woman who lives in a dream several experiences with partners of both sexes.

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

In the 1980s, a journalist sets out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared decades earlier. During his search, he goes...

Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one...

São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto (Paulo César Pereio) is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro...

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as...

Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich...

A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power...

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they...

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing...

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

Armando, a single high-school teacher living a steady life, sees his world crumbles when he falls in love with Laura, the ex-girlfriend of one of his...

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.