Hélio Silva Movies

Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century.

On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city....

Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room.

Man raised in a brothel tries to earn his living as a pimp, but gets in trouble when his girlfriend cheats on him with an older man.

After Cláudia, haunted by her husband’s death on a car crash, starts a romance with another man, she starts receiving threatening...

It's Christmas Eve and an aunt and her nephew have to deal with their platonic relationship.

The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the...

A short film commemorating the 400th anniversary of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The short film was sponsored by the Barsa Encyclopedia (launched in...

Rio Grande do Sul, 18th century. In between the arduous work on the land aiming for the prosperity of her family's farm and the constant attacks from...

In Minas Gerais, the powerful "colonel" Alexandrão gets married with the young and virgin Cristina and promotes a huge wedding party in his...

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the...

A newlywed woman, frustrated after her honeymoon, decides to search for lovers on the streets and ends up causing a conflict between her husband, a...

When major drug-dealer Boca de Ouro dies, a reporter interviews his ex-lover, now married with children and living in a poorhouse, to try to...

A professor faces a double of himself and hires a detective to find out who that is and what are his real intentions.

A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man...

The unfaithful wife Malena travels to Cabo Frio with the hustler Betinho, her virgin and naive daughter Soninha and her lesbian friend Nanan to spend...

A man and a woman meet in the middle of a newly inaugurated Brasília. In search of a love affair, they settle in his residence, where they...

Ted Boy and Renato, two clumsy mechanics from the countryside, are dating two young women who live in a luxurious mansion near their workshop. Ted...