Dercy Gonçalves Movies

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

Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant.

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical,...

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.

The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children...

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One...

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from...

A group of explorers travels the unexplored regions of the Amazon.

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her...

Januário is a con man who, with the help of his equally con-artist friends, stays at the luxurious Hotel Palácio, posing as a rich...

A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to...