Best movies of Antonio Pitanga

Actors : Luiza Maranhão, Aldo Teixeira, Lucy de Carvalho, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

In the State of Bahia, Brazil, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a ...

Actors : Tarcísio Meira, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Starting from a dialectical synthesis between capitalism ...

Actors : Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Sam Louwyck, Soren Hellerup, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : João Paulo Miranda Maria,

Cristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he...

Actors : Marcos Paulo, Marco Nanini, Louise Cardoso, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Hugo Carvana,

Apolônio Brasil was a cult pianist who used to play in nightclubs in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950s and 1960s. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women, idolized by his audience and ...

Actors : Geraldo Del Rey, Luiza Maranhão, Helena Ignez, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Roberto Pires,

Made in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid...

Actors : Léa Garcia, Luiza Maranhão, Eliezer Gomes, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Actors : Léa Bulcão, Sérgio Ricardo, Luiza Aparecida, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Sérgio Ricardo,

The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker.

Actors : Leonardo Villar, Anecy Rocha, Joel Barcellos, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.

Actors : Hugo Carvana, Odete Lara, Rogério Duarte, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

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

Actors : Zezé Motta, Nestor Capoeira, Joffre Soares, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Antonio Carlos da Fontoura,

This movie tells the story of the regime in Brazil and Jorge (Mestre Nestor Capoeira), who is a runaway slave from the Eldorado goldmines. In his battle with the local dictator, Jorge meets...

Actors : Carlos Kroeber, Cosme dos Santos, Severino d'Acelino, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Walter Lima Jr.,

Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his ...