Anselmo Duarte Movies

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

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...

Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes...

After Cláudia, haunted by her husband’s death on a car crash, starts a romance with another man, she starts receiving threatening...

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor"...

A man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her...

italian documentary

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the...

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this...

Fleeing from the orphanage where he was living, young Valdo immediately entered the life of the crime, establishing himself as a dangerous adult...

Sexual adventures of a prostitute's son and a bordello owner, who like to swap women.

The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.

In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.

A mine boss hires a policeman to chase some runaways who stole a precious diamond.

Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who...