Stênio Garcia Movies

On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile...

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black...

In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of...

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house...

Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from...

A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid...

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

Brazilian poet Torquato Neto's only incursion on filmmaking, "Terror da Vermelha" is an avan-garte horror film shot with a Super 8 camera at...

In the Brazilian countryside, poor sharecroppers join a messianic group led by Joaquim, who believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Gaining...

Bino advises Pedro to get married, but he is reluctant until Rosa calls him and arranges a meeting in Fortaleza. Along the way, adventures chase...

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a...

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in...

The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads...

Solano is often plagued by nightmares in which, during the Middle Ages, he is pursued by the hunter Faro, who intends to kill him. On discovering, in...

A gang robs a factory in the State of Rio de Janeiro taking 500 million cruzeiros. In the shooting, several bandits and police are killed. The police...