Antônio Pitanga Movies

A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos street market.

Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the...

During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo...

Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV...

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

The owner of a record store, amid a purchase of second-hand LPs, is faced with something that goes far beyond a trivial acquisition.

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic...

Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the...

José lives his last day of conformity.

In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from...

A family of Brazilian farmers is desperately looking for work and moves from city to city.

Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his...

A gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite being a hired killer, the man takes his job seriously and...

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the...