Movies: Petrônio Gontijo

A public appearance from international soccer player Marquinhos at Aurelio's bar launches a series of vignettes which spotlight Brazil's obsession with the round ball game...

Follows Moses leading and conducting the Hebrew people from the slavery of Egypt to the freedom towards the Promised Land according to the Ancient Testament Bible book of the Exodus. The story told like never before is faithful to the Scriptures....

After leaving prison in 1992, Edir Macedo goes through a series of trials: the inappropriate conduct of other bishops of the Church, the attack of politicians and Catholics, his mother's illness and the tragedy of the collapse of the roof of a Church...

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....

Authorized biopic of Brazilian evangelical bishop Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of Record TV network. Based on a book trilogy of the same name, the movie tells the story of the self-made man who faced se...

A writer married to an older man falls in love with an art dealer. She resists his advances, but through romantic, handwritten letters, she expresses her innermost desires and feelings for him. With her husband's illness and death, she breaks off con...

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil....

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower class...

Biography of the brother and sister duo Celly and Tony Campello, famous singers in Brazil during the sixties, mainly for creating localized versions of international rock 'n roll hits....