Movies: Ivan de Souza

After a powerful outlaw dies, a reporter interviews his lover and gets three different stories about the legendary man....

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom....

The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's sometimes fills in for Tati's father, giving the girl temporary happiness....

An architect has his family brutally murdered and leaves for relentless vengeance....

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life....

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars....

Five criminals captured by Detective Lincoln Monteiro escape from the penitentiary, seeking revenge on enemies and traitors. Niquelzinho and Paulo Cabeleira kill bookmakers, while Maurilão, Chico Preto, and Mico Sujo commit several robberies. Lincoln...

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

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In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments....

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him....

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 ...

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro....

Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge....

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An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative moder...

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Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players....

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the self-conscious antics of the French New Wave. The pampered son of a general, El Justicero is a hipster playboy w...

The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad....