Movies: Alexandre Paternost

The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny,...

In the 19th century, rich farmer with a passion for music dreams of having an orchestra. He hires a conductor, to help him organize the musicians. But the man falls in love with his daughter....

This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout ...

In the mid-1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants, became leader of a sect that believed in healing the body by cleansing the soul. After having a divine vision and speaking to Jesus, she changes her appearance and manners, disturbing the con...

Theater director asks his actors for a research on human cruelty and misery in Brazil, while trying to raise funds for his next production, a play based on a story by Machado de Assis, "A Causa Secreta" (The Secret Cause). The troupe oblige and go ar...

Batavo is a simple man living in the interior of RS. The calm of his routine comforts him, but it is the greater cause of the boredom that slaughter his wife, who decides to abandon it and to run away with another man....

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