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

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.

Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.

The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.

Five young women hold a weekend-long bachelorette party for their engaged girlfriend.

A jockey is pushed by his former trainer, in order to win one last race after his downfall into alcohol and depression.

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.

College professor has mid-life crisis, gets mixed up with prostitutes and gangsters.

Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.

After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent.

In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.

The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.

A group of married couples intend to celebrate their traditional joyous dinner together. The festivities turn sour when an anonymous telephone caller informs the husbands that one of the wives is guilty of adultery. But...which one?

A sympathetic elder docsplains life to a teenaged girl in his neighborhood.

Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starving, he reaches the manor house and asks for protection Villares pretending repentance. He soon won the confidence of the wealthy owner of the land, a man of high moral and religious training, blind for years, who lives with his beautiful young wife. This, to know the true story of Philip, treats him with disgust, but over time, created in her a strong passion.

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other.

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.

For medical advice, Carlos and his wife, Julia go on vacation to a fashion beach. The hotel gets a new host, Roldós, known seducer of scandalous history that lives in the suite next to the couple. Julia hears a piano melody and below the door finds a message asking her to meet in one place. Faced with this audacity, Julia reacts with dignity but curiousity as well. The recklessness of the seducer gets to the point that Carlos realizes this 'relationship' causing a scene of jealousy. Blinded by deception, the follows the supposed rival and Julia and the other people in the hotel heard gunshots. An inspector arrives to investigate the disappearance of Roldós and all suspicion falls on Carlos.

Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.

Bachelor friend of a married couple gets caught up in the drama generated by the husband's philandering.

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.

1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage

Dr. Henry Mills a very renowned cardiac specialist, disagrees with his wife, because of their religious beliefs, and more particularly because it encourages his son Ernesto to follow the priesthood. Mills is unfaithful to his wife, Isabel. She knows her husband's betrayal, and he secretly decides to separate, without sharing the marital bed, but keeping a secret from society.

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.

Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When they decide to lean over the cliffs of the coast to observe the wild dance of the turbulent waves down below, an unexpected event tragically happens.

Anthology film, four episodes.

Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).

Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.

A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.

Empire-building philanthropist has no time to indulge his wife's romantic fantasies.

Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.

One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.

Romantic melodrama

After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident

A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.

Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for independence.

In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.

A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?

Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells.

Set during the centenary celebrations, it narrates the frustrated loves between a man from high society and a woman with a hectic romantic life.

The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.

Noir hero tries to avoid being arrested while he tracks down papers that will prove his innocence.

A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.

A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he stole to Rio de Janeiro. With no other way out, she is sent on a boat to Brazil by the thief. On board, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

A player wife, Nancy, who holds elegance to disguise their poverty while waiting for a wealthy man appears and deal with it, talk to the old man begging at the door of a casino. Soon after, a mysterious suitor offers a life of luxury.

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.

Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.

"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?

All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.

Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.

Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.

A 1942 film.

Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them.

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.

A 1941 Mexican film.

Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.

A 1940 film.

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.

Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.

Comedy/drama about railroad workers.

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.

A 1938 film.

A 1938 film.

It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor

Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?

A 1937 film.

A 1936 film.

Irrational jealousy blossoms into full-blown psychosis.