Dercy Gonçalves Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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.

Alligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife.

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...

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing...

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

Alvarenga and Ranchinho have a law firm in a small village and go to Rio de Janeiro to hire artists for the village's radio station.

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...