Anselmo Duarte

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

A man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her...

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the...

After their relative and associate runs way, the Naves brothers inform the police of the incident, who end up arresting them under the accusation of...

In Buenos Aires, Frederico hides in a ship going to Rio de Janeiro to travel for free. But Azulão, the cook, finds him and blackmails him into...

Fleeing from the orphanage where he was living, young Valdo immediately entered the life of the crime, establishing himself as a dangerous adult...

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.

A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to...

Two friends grow together in the same neighborhood but, as adults, take different paths in life. One becomes an honest worker, and the other gets...

An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer...

A fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an...

A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.

A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The...

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop,...

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through...

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the...

Delfino, a quiet man who lives in Congonhas do Campo, a small historical town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is urged by his friend to steal...

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

A mine boss hires a policeman to chase some runaways who stole a precious diamond.

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and...

A woman impressed by news reports about flying saucers, gets hit on the head by a vase, passes out and dreams that she is the 'Queen of Mars', from...

Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.

Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for...

Nini dreams of a doll that resembles a queen living in a toy store window. Although now, first of all, it is necessary to think about paying the rent.

A singer is in love with the wife of a rich banker. Both men have the same analyst who allow them to swap souls.

Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does...

The rise of Brazilian directors Anselmo Duarte and Glauber Rocha occurred through different professional trajectories. Rocha working as a young film...

Romantic comedy...

A drama about double personality

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

Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.

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

In a workshop there are six workers, the six are brothers. Enter the mother who asks them to rescue the seventh brother, the youngest, Luis. The...

The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.

The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.

Disagreements between brothers and marital infidelity are just some of the consequences that the discovery of a valuable diamond causes.

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

About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors...

An Argentinian and a Brazilian fall in love and at the same time, their couples do the same thing between them.

The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents,...

A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous...

Reconstruction of the historical episode of the Inconfidência Mineira (Minas Conspiracy).

An unfinished omnibus film project by Orson Welles exploring Latin American life through documentary and dramatized non-fiction.