Antonio Luiz Mendes Movies

With Brasilia as a setting, the film tries to recreate the political environment in Brazil when civilians were able to found new political parties,...

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867...

When her husband dies, Elisa asks Guerreiro if she can join his gang of bank robbers. She soon gains notoriety in the press with the nickname Lili...

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...

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to...

Mission 115 was the name given by DOI-CODI (an army repression body during the military dictatorship) to a supposed "vigilance" operation in Rio de...

It tells the story of a Brazilian filmmaker, Lucas. When his mother, Alice, dies in Belo Horizonte, he searches for his family's Portuguese roots...

In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living...

Antero and Maria Araújo's story is the shortcut chosen by the director to show life in Maraima, a small town in the state of Ceará,...

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life...

A street singer, a former prostitute and her jealous husband, two thieves, a teacher and two children. All strangers. All in the same place. Five...

Film Editor/Director Ricardo Miranda makes a homage to his friend Paulo Cezar Saraceni

The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.

In a beautiful coastal retreat, a seductive young woman ignites a rivalry between two surfers vying for her affection. One of them is trying to move...