Nuno Leal Maia

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

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...

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...

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia...

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

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...

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful...

Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another...

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...

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

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

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...

An industrial couple spends more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Afraninho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign...

In a financially troubled farm in the 1930's, its depraved owners become attracted to their new handsome and young handyman.

A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.

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...

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...

Osso experiences three major dilemmas in his life: at the same time as he dreams of being successful in a band made up of unstable and immature young...

Movie director gets crazy while shooting a film, and goes to a mental institution. There, he leads a revolt, kidnapping a group of Human Rights...

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

Monte Serrat is a short film filmed from the tale Three Lost Treasures, scored by Machado de Assis.

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...

Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.

Unhappy with her marriage, woman looks for sexual satisfaction by any means.

Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress...

The film tells the story of Tainá, a 5 years old orphan Indian girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origin. Along...

A young man returns to the country and find surprises,

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...

Four couples go to a country seat. One of the girls is still a virgin, and his boyfriend proposes a game which changes the group behavior.

After watching an erotic animation in the movie theater, Ana falls in love for the lead character, the "macho man" Valdisnei. She tries to reach him...

Sexual adventures of a prostitute's son and a bordello owner, who like to swap women.

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

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

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

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...

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

Victor accidentally sends a compromising email to his nagging boss. With the help of his office crush and a clueless friend, he'll try to save his...