Movies: Jofre Soares

A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety....

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels....

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come alon...

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a ...

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the...

Helena, a criminal's daughter, was raised in a boarding school. When the priest who was her teacher is killed by a group of outlaws, Helena and her female friends assemble in a strange gang of female bandits, wandering Northeast Brazil and forcing th...

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny....

The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways....

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

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company....

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra"....

The love affair between Ceci, a white woman and a handsome Indian, Peri, in Brazil....

According to an Amazonian indigenous legend, a certain insect, Anophelis sexualis, has aphrodisiac properties: one who is bitten by it will surely die if it does not have sex within two hours. Knowing this news, Hans Muller, a scientist, moves to the...

One car failure and a long bus ride to nowhere lead to a small Brazilian country town where two groups of guys and girls meet. This coincidences change the courses of their lives as they soon mingle and passion arises among them....

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women....

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony bec...

Prostitute is impregnated by a wealthy businessman. Identical twins are born: Márcio created by the father and the mother another. The latter becomes a marginal, while the first, with the death of his father, inherits fortune incalculable. Upon learn...

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age....

Romantic biography of Maria Bonita, daughter of a poor farmer who was kidnapped by Lampião and became his lover....

This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout ...