Máximo Barro Movies

Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.

Zenó (Mazzaropi) is a poor gardener of a traditional school in São Paulo who falls in love with one of the local girls, much richer and...

A millionaire invites some friends for a weekend on an island, where some say there is a buried treasure. But a storm takes the boat away, and they...

A young and sensitive couple's impossible love affair.

This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular...

A documentary depicting the lives of Brazil’s star performers—the most famous women of the Revue Theater in the 1940s, 1950s, and...

Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.

Investigation into the seven years that followed the closure of Companhia Vera Cruz, in 1955, which marked a period of crisis for national film...

A middle-aged man copes with the loss of his job and his impending blindness.

The demolition of an old house makes way for the modern city.

Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and death.

Divided into three episodes based on stories by Stanislaw Ponte Preta (Sérgio Porto), the film portrays three young people from Rio de...

An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.