Companhia Cinematografica Vera Cruz Movies

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in...

In the time of the "cangaceiros" in the badlands of the Northeast of Brazil, the cruel Captain Galdino Ferreira and his band abduct the schoolteacher...

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide....

Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed...

Eduardo wants to become a police reporter. To do so, he unravels a mysterious crime, but fails to get the editor of his newspaper to promote it. He...

An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer...

Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes...

Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.

Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.

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...

Sílvia Nogalis a concert pianist prefers her career to marriage. On the night when she performs "Appassionata" by Beethoven she receives news...

Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes. After Diadorim's father is killed, she...

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this...

Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels",...

Márcia discovers that her husband is having an affair and decides to take a trip out into an isolated part of Brazil with little human...

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by and starring Adolfo Celi. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951...

This Brazilian film is set during the period of its initial colonial discovery and settlement. The title refers to a word the native peoples used for...

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