Sadi Cabral Movies

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

An unlucky woman checks in a hotel pretending to be a French baroness so she can have 24 hours of dream before comitting suicide.

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax...

Considered a young terror among women, Ricardo unexpectedly begins to suffer from a strange phobia to noise pollution. That means that any noise...

Sinfonia Amazônica, or Amazon Symphony, was Brazil's first animated feature-length film, produced entirely by Anélio Lattini Filho over...

On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city....

An unlucky trumpeter and a young singer try to rebuild their lives in Brazilian nightclubs. They will try everything for everything while making a...

True story of a famous and violent Brazilian outlaw nicknamed "Paraíba". After being shot, Paraíba tries to hide inside a church, where...

A poor woman passes herself as singer that just arrives from Frances and becames a sensation on Rio de Janeiro's high society.

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

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...