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Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz

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São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo

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Browse 38 movies from Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz

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Caiçara poster
Movie

Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces gossip, and is assaulted by her husband’s partner. After her husband dies in a boat accident, a handsome sailor arrives, and Marina is blackmailed about her family’s health issues.

Caiçara

Jun 1950

Candinho poster
Movie

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

Candinho

Jan 1954

Angela poster
Movie

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. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.

Angela

Jan 1951

The Desire poster
Movie

Widowed one year ago, Eleonora, a 33-year-old woman from Sao Paulo's upper bourgeoisie, lives alone, unsuited to her husband's absence, an intellectual frustrated and torn between the need for transcendence and a strong sexual compulsion. The life of the couple, although not happy, was intense. However, the presence of her a long-time friend Ana Maria, just arrived from Paris, a middle-class university student, is staying at his house. The two go to the site of Eleonora and she remembers her life with Marcelo and his death by drowning.

The Desire

Jul 1975

Men and Women poster
Movie

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 in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.

Men and Women

Aug 1964

A Carrocinha poster
Movie

Man finds a job as a dog catcher, but feels sorry for the animals and sets them free.

A Carrocinha

Sep 1955

Sai da Frente poster
Movie

Isidoro Colepicula is a humble truck driver hired to transport some furniture from São Paulo to Santos, in his worn out truck he calls "Anastácio". Hiding among the pieces travels a bride who's trying to escape her own marriage. With his dog Coroné, he gets himself into many amusing situations, especially when the packed vehicle is left without brakes on a steep road, and he has to chase after it.

Sai da Frente

Jun 1952

Cordélia, Cordélia poster
Movie

Tired of her boring husband, secretary Cordélia finds refuge in a love affair with her boss and afterwards, believes she has found true love in the person of a car salesman.

Cordélia, Cordélia

May 1971

OSS 117 Takes a Vacation poster
Movie

OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.

OSS 117 Takes a Vacation

Feb 1970

As Aventuras de Pedro Malasartes poster
Movie

It is the story of Pedro, who after being passed over by his brothers, wanders the world in search of a better life, but on the way, finds children who eventually conquer it, and in order to help them, he passes scamming other people he met along the way, telling lies, however, always with the goal of helping him new friends. And kills a cow.

As Aventuras de Pedro Malasartes

Sep 1960

The Palace of Angels poster
Movie

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

The Palace of Angels

May 1970

Tico-Tico no Fubá poster
Movie

A fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

Tico-Tico no Fubá

Apr 1952

Of Gods and the Undead poster
Movie

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 the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.

Of Gods and the Undead

Jun 1970

The Bandit poster
Movie

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 Olívia, expecting to receive a ransom for her. However, one of his men, Teodoro, falls in love and flees with her through the arid backcountry chased by the brigands.

The Bandit

Jan 1953

The Landowner's Daughter poster
Movie

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.

The Landowner's Daughter

May 1953

Floradas na Serra poster
Movie

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

Floradas na Serra

Oct 1954

É Proibido Beijar poster
Movie

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 is engaged to Suzy, who works at a nightclub. In charge of interviewing a famous actress, June, gets involved in several embarrassing situations that are created by Suzy and two other reporters, Harry and Steve, who follow June since her arrival in Brazil.

É Proibido Beijar

Jun 1954

Uma Pulga na Balança poster
Movie

Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.

Uma Pulga na Balança

Apr 1953

Luz Apagada poster
Movie

On a small coastal town, a light-keeper lives in total seclusion after his wife's passing. His daughter is also there and she becomes his only contact with the other locals, and when a helper is sent to assist him on duties, she asks a childhood friend of hers to marry her, so he can be appointed as her father's helper.

Luz Apagada

Dec 1953

The Burning Body poster
Movie

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 contact. There she finds a black stallion roaming the fields.

The Burning Body

Jul 1966

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