Movies: Tizuka Yamasaki

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's imag...

The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions....

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro....

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come toget...

Nick, a famous fashion model, decides to retire and goes back to her home country Brazil, after a briliant international career. She becomes the head executive of Popstar, the modeling agency where she started her career, and has to deal with intrigu...

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved o...

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Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life....

Marcos Resende is a cold and crisis man command MetalNobre company. Mark lost his faith in God when her father, Antonio, died in the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida. He had asked the day before to Our Lady Aparecida cleats for h...

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 death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the...

The most successful case of collective fight for women's rights in Brazil....

Set in colonial Brazil, the love story between a Brazilian man and a Portuguese-born dame sets fire to a political movement which brought freedom and democracy in Brazil for the very first time....

The troubled adventures of a country novice who goes to the big city to work as a nanny, taking care of the young and rebel sons of a widow businessman....

Nena, a journalist and former student of the Two Hearts dance academy, tries to stop the school from being sold to a group of drug dealers. She trains a group to win the Requebra dance contest that would give them the necessary money to carry their p...

In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has other plans for her....

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Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and libertarian teacher of the early twentieth century, known for its sexual liberalism, which shocked the pre-Revoluti...

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