Zezé Motta Movies

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.

Three childhood friends plan meeting for a day in order to reassert their friendships and fight for their differences. One of them is involved with cr...

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.

Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood...

Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he...

Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.

A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power str...

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of...

Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual touris...

Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial...

Dr. Ferrão, a famous psychoanalyst, uses his daily column on a newspaper to atract women to his practice.

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.

Iolanda, a widow who is the matriarch of a large and complicated family, is the hostess of a large party in a mansion that brings back many memories....

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-kn...

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughte...

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a st...

A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models t...