Luiz Linhares Movies

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small...

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit"...

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more...

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his...

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its...

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a...

A man arrives in Tocantins river, looking for fortune.

Isidoro Colepicula is a humble truck driver hired to transport some furniture from São Paulo to Santos, in his worn out truck he calls...

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

Aquiles Taveira is a civil servant harassed by his own family's financial demands. Tired of it, he decides to fake an embezzlement at his work and...