Ilka Soares

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

A beautiful young woman, raised by prostitutes and disgusted with life, accepts the offer to move with an older, opportunist man. Depressed and weak,...

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...

Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.

A once-rich family of women in Rio de Janeiro must sell their mansion in order to keep their high standard of living, but the proximity to the slums...

The ups and downs in the lives of immigrants from post-war Europe, arriving in Brazil in search of a better future.

The romantic relationship between a Tabajara indigenous young woman and a Portuguese colonist, who was allied with her nation's enemies, the...

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

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...

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.

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

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...

Forty-year-old Cláudio is always looking for a romantic relationship. His routine changes when he has to take care of his 12-year-old 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...

Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about...