Movies: Alex Sernambi

Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-m...

Hilário Pestana, the most famous, funniest and, ironically, saddest Brazilian actor, has died. He has passed through many stages of Brazilian cinema: the chanchadas, the Vera Cruz classics, the pornochanchadas, and even experimental movies. He was be...

A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They me...

Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selectio...

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A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money....

Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory....

Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back....

From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career....

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old ag...

Is the country of the future where children get pregnant? Is the largest Catholic country in the world where more than thirty thousand women die as a result of abortion? Is the 10th largest economy on the planet where 27% of women are sterilized? VEN...

Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town....

Mockumentary on a German moviemaker and an old vampire film in Southern Brazil....

The starting point is an unlikely name, Primavera das Neves, a translator of Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe and Julio Verne, who disappeared without a trace in the 1960s. Could it be a pseudonym? The search for a name found an extraordinary woman and a ...

Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, “who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children”. It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of...

Antônio, an 8-year-old boy, discovers that his neighbor Cristina, 80, tells different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the saints of the day. And Mrs. Cristina believes that Antônio can help her recover her lost memory....

Two straight (but not really) guys invite two naive (but not really) prostitutes for a night of sex. In the preliminary conversations, a little poetry, a lot of philosophy and heavy doses of vulgarity, all with Beethoven in the background. But when i...

Hell on earth, devilish gods, Lucifer emerge from the bowels of a ship in search of human flesh and blood as food....

Raul and Saul work at the same office. Raul, outgoing and good-natured, comes from a broken marriage. Saul is shy, with a critical and bitter disposition, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt. In spite of their differences, they become quite g...

Teenager preparing for diving competition identifies with suicides who jumped from an old viaduct in Porto Alegre....