Hugo Carvana Movies

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

A rich man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion.

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the...

Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they...

Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old...

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent...

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only...

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair...

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.

The film reveals the moments that preceded the Samba Schools' competitive parade in Rio de Janeiro's 1996 carnival. Narrated by actor Hugo Carvana...

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

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...

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her...

A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.