Movies: Teca Pereira

Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis....

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong....

A divorced lawyer falls for a charismatic cardiologist. But when their difference in size leads to family friction, is she ready to listen to her heart?...

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although...

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolu...

Small-town trickster Pedro Malasartes has to face two great enemies: Próspero, who will do anything to impede such a lazy, cowardly person like Malasartes from dating his sister, Áurea; and Death incarnated, who wants to take a vacation after two tho...

Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle...

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial ti...

Two sisters with very different personalities and who have not spoken with each other for years come together to fulfill their grandfather’s last wish, a kind of wild treasure hunt that leads them to know their true history, helping them to grieve th...

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An elderly woman, when moving to her new apartment, is trapped and incommunicable. Upon hearing the cries for help coming from downstairs, she needs to race against time to save her neighbor....

A young man’s father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his own father’s end. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers at a Sunday dance in Garopaba, a sleepy town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fis...

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Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with h...

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Maicon Douglas is in love with Silmara. One day her mother wakes up in bad health and Maicon needs to urgently take her to the hospital. Maicon calls his friends, everyone boards a Opala Azul Negão to try their luck in a city of contrasts....

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Summer. Rio de Janeiro. Two thousand and something, we stopped counting. Gay times. Sharks in the area. Claudete, 64 years old, is facing a big dilemma: she only falls in love with gay men. Together with her friend Jurema, she will follow her new cru...