Norma Bengell Movies

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.

Genre: Action

Cast: Luc Merenda

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Bengell

The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria Gladys

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Barry Sullivan

A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Joseph Cotten

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hugo Carvana

A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bayard Tonelli

Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

An engaged couple discovers the corpse of a woman killed by strangulation in the Santo Amaro dam. Inspector Castro and his assistant, Pedro, start...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Helio Souto

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel Barcellos

Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Philbrook

Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.

Genre: Action

Cast: Luigi Picchi

Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Bengell

Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels",...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geneviève Grad

A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roberto Maya

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Bengell

An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

Nina, a typical woman of the big city, marries a powerful farmer and goes to live in the countryside of Minas Gerais. There, however, she is faced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Bengell

Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Bengell

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

Giulio and Armando, both married, attempt an escape from their respective married lives, invent a secret mission and leaves for the south.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Memmo Carotenuto

A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Agildo Ribeiro

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stephen Forsyth

In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Bengell

The nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.

Genre:

Cast: Lisa Gastoni

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Roberto Pires

A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Bengell

Genre: Crime

Cast: Anselmo Duarte

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caetano Veloso

Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Bengell

Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cláudio Marzo

A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guilherme Fontes

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucélia Santos

Divided into three episodes based on stories by Stanislaw Ponte Preta (Sérgio Porto), the film portrays three young people from Rio de...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Bengell

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurício do Valle

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oscarito

A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and with a successful career, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jardel Filho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ewerton de Castro

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.

Genre: Music

Cast: Carlos Lyra

Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean-Pierre Aumont

Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paulo Villaça

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raul Cortez

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jorge Mautner

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norma Bengell

The loving adventures of a priest disillusioned with religion and life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nelson Xavier

Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She rekindles her relationship with her former...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Odete Lara

Genre: Western

Cast: Sérgio Reis

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mick Jagger

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aurora Fúlgida

In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renato Salvatori

Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carla Camurati

The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Wanderléa

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Giuffrè

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

A poor woman is visited by the fairy godmother who turns her into a brilliant movie and TV star.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Carla Camurati

A documentary that chronologically traces the presence of women in Brazilian cinema.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norma Bengell

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Cast: Norma Bengell

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Júlio Bressane

August 29, 1979, Talavera Bruce Penal Institute, Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. After serving eight years in prison, Inês Etienne Romeu, the only...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Inês Etienne Romeu

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Odete Lara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Sorel