Pedro Farkas Movies

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

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to...

Successful at work, Fernanda is an example of women of the third millennium, free to make their choices and independent. Yet in her personal life she...

Laura makes spooky observations as soon as she starts her job as a teacher for two orphan students at a plantation. She concludes that it has...

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

Marked by losses and mismatches, José's eccentric family seek to be happy while locked in Paraíso Perdido, a nightclub that has stopped...

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son...

On the eve of an important surfing championship, a group of young friends travels along the Brazilian coast with the intention of training hard and...

The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation...

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia,...

In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the...

The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically...

A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.

The documentary records the celebrations for the celebration of the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo, in 1954. In charge of the...

Nhô Quim has only one dream in his life: to eat red meat. He meets Carula, a young woman anxious to get married, who promises him that in their...

Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic...

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.