Humberto Mauro Movies

A theater manager about to go bankrupt decides to accept help from his daughter and her boyfriend to save the family's finances, which she does with...

Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da...

Coronel Januário's goddaughter, Maria Fausta, is having a secret affair with João do Carmo. While her godfather is engaged in his...

A cowboy uses songs to tame and gather his animals.

Biographical data about Castro Alves: the different cities where he lived, the love misadventures, the school institutions where he studied and his...

A look at the now abandoned production farms, substituted by power plants.

A short documentary on the film works directed by Brazilian pioneer Humberto Mauro. With an extensive career that began in the silent era and then...

An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.

Professor Hélio Gomes Machado gives a speech in favor of the library as an element of spiritual progress for a people. Description of a model...

The film demonstrates all stages of production of the yellow fever vaccine that took place in the Yellow Fever Service laboratory of the Rockefeller...

Two young men from Paris bring "wonderful civilizing ideas" into the brain. But, as they returned without pity, they began to call for an auction of...

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Belo Horizonte, the industrial Sampaio lives in a manor house with his stepdaughter Carmen, who has a...

Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for...