Manoel Rocha Movies

O Descobrimento do Brasil (The Discovery of Brazil) is an impressive historical epic recreating Álvares Cabral’s voyage to the New World in 1500, with a score especially written by the renowned composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. One of the earliest examples of Brazilian cinema, this film depicts the...

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

A young woman from the countryside comes to Rio to try to be a theater star with the support of a friend, but to achieve what she wants, she ends up getting her own mother into trouble.

A poor woman passes herself as singer that just arrives from Frances and becames a sensation on Rio de Janeiro's high society.