Nuno Leal Maia Movies

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small...

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through...

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his...

Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering...

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

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

A story about the fantasies of a married woman who lives in a dream several experiences with partners of both sexes.

In the 1980s, a journalist sets out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared decades earlier. During his search, he goes...

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing...

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they...

Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one...

Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich...

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Armando, a single high-school teacher living a steady life, sees his world crumbles when he falls in love with Laura, the ex-girlfriend of one of his...

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful...

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as...

Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress...

The film tells the story of Tainá, a 5 years old orphan Indian girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origin. Along...

Osso experiences three major dilemmas in his life: at the same time as he dreams of being successful in a band made up of unstable and immature young...

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.