Grande Otelo Movies

During the inauguration of Brasília, Brazil's brand new capital city, singer and ballerina Gilda hides in a working-class night club to escape...

Jorge, an ambitious journalist, marries into money and betrays colleagues to become a powerful politician during political turmoil in 1946 Brazil.

Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...

Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.

Badly advised by a high-class friend (who covets her husband) and by her scatterbrained father (always preoccupied with making cocktails), singer...

The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently...

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the...

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

Young man participates in TV contests to help the girl he loves using the money he expects to win.

A brief history of origins of brazilian carioca samba and its types.

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.