Zezé Macedo Movies

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

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful...

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

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

A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure.

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.

The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's...

Dona Xepa is a vegetable stand owner. She dreams about the success of her scientist son. The film is based on the play by Pedro Bloch.

Shortly before becoming a priest, a young man decides to run away from the seminary and goes to Rio de Janeiro. There he will face a series of...

Comedy in two segments. In the first, an important businessman becomes temporarily paralyzed after taking too much of a potent aphrodisiac. To take...

Three segments with stories about the sexual relationships between adolescent boys and the maids who work at their homes.

The film narrates the adventures of the trickster Juca Moleza in the carnival while he has to deal with the consequences of the scams he applied to...