Movies: Jorge Neves

At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to ...

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de rei...

In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly t...

The journey of idealistic Vitor, a young federal judge who decides to dismantle the mafia that dominates the border between Brazil and Paraguay. Inspired by true events....

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A widow, a corpse, an undertaker, a young woman in a family way. Life and death meet in a funeral procession down a stairwell....

A nun enjoys her bicycle....

At the end of a long journey, certain people acquire the ability to fly out from earth. For this they need the help of João, whose task is to get them to the precise point of departure and explain their disappearance from planet earth....

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