Dercy Gonçalves

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

The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and...

A group of explorers travels the unexplored regions of the Amazon.

Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One...

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from...

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...

Alligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife.

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.

Januário is a con man who, with the help of his equally con-artist friends, stays at the luxurious Hotel Palácio, posing as a rich cocoa farmer in...

Ms. Violante Miranda is a bordello owner who raises a small girl as her own granddaughter. When she gets a little older, she is sent to study in...

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old...

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...

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical,...

Renato has fallen in love with his neighbor Marta, but their families don't get along. To try to solve the problem, each one takes their own family...

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Alvarenga and Ranchinho have a law firm in a small village and go to Rio de Janeiro to hire artists for the village's radio station.

Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant.