Paulo Américo Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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

Holding in her mind Dorothea Tanning’s painting Some Roses and their Phantoms (1952) and its sickening presentation of objects as between...

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

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,...