Alberto Ruschel

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

In the time of the "cangaceiros" in the badlands of the Northeast of Brazil, the cruel Captain Galdino Ferreira and his band abduct the schoolteacher...

A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.

In São Paulo, a businessman wants to rehabilitate street children, called "trombinhas", through a social project. After being discouraged by the...

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

Life in a detachment at the foot of the mountain range is altered by an accident and by a woman.

The loves and life of a beautiful Brazilian Indian woman.

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide....

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

Sílvia Nogalis, a renowned concert pianist, prefers her career to her marriage. On the night she performs Beethoven's "Appassionata", she learns of...

A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges...

A family moves to a farm and witnesses some cattle thefts, then being chased by the criminal responsible for the crimes.

As revenge against the big landowner who killed his brother, a convict escapes and rapts the man's daughter.

This comedy tells the confusion created by Dante Rossi, owner of a pizza restaurant in Braz, namesake of a powerful industrial São Paulo. This...

In 1836 Brazil, a hawker arrives in a small village in the State of Rio Grande do Sul to avenge the death of a friend. He becomes friends with an...

A Brazilian musical comedy

Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", at first...

Guia de Filmes indicates: "melodrama addressing the massification of large urban centers and the contradictions of consumer society and advertising....