Miami Brazilian Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2008 Won Crystal Lens Best Screenplay
Cristiano Abud
Special Jury Award
Cynthia Falabella
For the acting.
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun. With no contacts in the big city, he gets involved with the crime underworld connected with illegal betting. This was the first Brazilian film to deal candidly with "Jogo do Bicho", the popular and illegal daily lottery in Rio de Janeiro.
"Amei um bicheiro" is an a...
Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is drugged and raped while some photographs are taken, to be presently used as blackmail, to force her to work as a hooker. She accepts her fate but starts a serious relationship with a reporter, to whom she doesn't dare tell the truth. S...
掘墓者兼杀人狂约瑟夫赞纳塔斯（Raymond Castile 饰）经过四十多年的牢狱生活，终于凭借巴西法律的帮助重获自由。但是监狱并未削弱邪恶的力量，他心中仍然笃定着对恶魔撒旦的信念。约瑟夫和其忠实的随从搬到贫民窟，约瑟夫时刻受到往日罪行的纠缠，昔日伴侣们的鬼魂让其痛不欲生，然而他仍希望找到一个完美的女子延续自己的生命，为此不惜大开杀戒。
今非昔比，四十年后社会动荡，官员腐败。军警奥斯瓦多（Adriano Stuart 饰）及其兄弟较约瑟夫有过之而无不及，这两拨邪恶人马注定要有交锋的一天……
During an orgy of millionaires, a woman is mysteriously kidnapped and killed. The crime causes quite a stir in local society, as the investigations points to a very known addicted playboy. Although it's never said, the film is vaguely based on a real case happened in 1975, when socialite Angela Diniz was killed by her lover Doca Street, in Búzios, Brazil.
Jece Valado (1930 - 2...
True story of a famous and violent Brazilian outlaw nicknamed "Paraíba". After being shot, Paraíba tries to hide inside a church, where he starts remembering episodes of his criminal life.
O filme é baseado na história verdadeira de um famoso bandido brasileiro conhecido como "Paraíba". Após uma ferrenha perseguicao, Paraíba é atingido e resolve se esconder em uma igreja. Quand...
