Leonardo Villar Movies

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies, is bitten up and left for dead,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sara Montiel

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Leonardo Villar

A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leonardo Villar

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

A pastor and a priest compete for the religious leadership of the population of a small town. When the pastor tries to prevent his sister's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Delfino, a quiet man who lives in Congonhas do Campo, a small historical town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is urged by his friend to steal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rodolfo Arena

Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of...

Genre: History

Cast: Diogo Infante

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

Genre: Crime

Cast: Silvia Pinal

An existentialist drama that narrates one night in the life of a couple formed by an architect and university professor who has just left his job and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo Guarnieri

About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: H.E. Fowle

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maitê Proença