Paulo Américo Movies

The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Santiago

Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thalita Machado

Year 2006. There are riots in São Paulo. In the middle of the violent situation, widow Lucia is trying to get her young son Rafael from prison.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Andréa Beltrão

Three siblings devise a plan to get their divorced parents to spend Christmas together.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luís Lobianco

To fulfill his mother’s dying wish and avoid being removed from her will, an inflexible bachelor hires an actress to play his fiancée.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caio Castro

In São Paulo, the black part of the elite, while whites take over the periphery. In this scenario, a lawyer has to deliver cell in a prison,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Paulo Américo

A sheltered teenager discovers she's actually a princess from another country — and she could be in grave danger. Based on Paula Pimenta's...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Pietra Quintela

“Nobody Leaves Alive” by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernanda Marques

During Carnival in São Paulo, a young man and young woman who knew each other as children meet again after many years and the social barriers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jesuíta Barbosa

Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots. One day, he responds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wagner Moura

The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carmen Silva