Alvarina Souza e Silva Movies

In New York City, an illegal immigrant gets into trouble because of his relationship with a self-destructive prostitute.

Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that...

This is the story of the activism of Genivaldo, a family farmer from the semi-arid region of Alagoas. A lay member of the Catholic Church, he once...

While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she'd found the diary of Madame Clessy,...

The documentary offers an overview on the transformations in the Brazilian socioeconomic process from the 30s to present day, with a group of...

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as...

The Santa Teresa tram in images from the 1940s and 1960s in downtown Rio de Janeiro places the viewer in a space and time constructed through sounds...

Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they...

A painter is found dead with a gun in his hand, in his shabby studio in Lapa, a bohemian district in Rio de Janeiro. A brief note is published on a...

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the...