Nuno Leal Maia Movies

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

After watching an erotic animation in the movie theater, Ana falls in love for the lead character, the "macho man" Valdisnei. She tries to reach him...

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...

Monte Serrat is a short film filmed from the tale Three Lost Treasures, scored by Machado de Assis.

In a financially troubled farm in the 1930's, its depraved owners become attracted to their new handsome and young handyman.

A free-spirited surfer who masters the hang-five — walking to the tip of the board and balancing on his toes — finds himself haunted by...

A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power...

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.

A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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