Paulo ... A Travers Champs !

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

Héctor Babenco

Cast

Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida

In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class family. Each of her sons has a different unknown father: the oldest, Dênis, has a baby son that lives with his mother and he works as motorcycle courier.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas

Cast

Sandra Corveloni, Ana Luiza Garritano, Vinícius de Oliveira

Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians and rival gangs seek to end their power in the city. Yuda is soon got arrested and...

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Nelson Yu Lik-wai

Cast

Joe Odagiri, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Huang Yi

In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Eric Eason

Cast

Brendan Fraser, Yasiin Bey, Scott Glenn

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

José Mojica Marins

Cast

Jece Valadão, Adriano Stuart, Milhem Cortaz