Antonio Luiz Mendes Movies

On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro...

A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face...

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...

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...

Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of...

Flute player Carlos Malta searches for traditional pife players and the mutual dependencies they share with the contemporary music to which he...

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

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...

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife...

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

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,...

Lucas and Felipe spend their first day of vacation together wearing out jokes and hanging out. But beneath this apparent normality, Lucas’...