The best Mário Petráglia’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Mário Petráglia’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Mário Petráglia.
Fulaninha
6.5/10
Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.
Os Devassos
6.4/10
Tragic Jungle
7.4/10
In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.
Memories of Prison
7.6/10
Adaptation of Graciliano Ramos's novel about his arrest and imprisonment.
Amor Maldito
6/10
Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.
The ABC of Love
5.4/10
Directed by Eduardo Coutinho (segment "Pacto, O"), Rodolfo Kuhn (segment "Noche terrible"), Helvio Soto (segment "Mundo mágico")
Fish in a Barrel
7/10
Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.
Na Onda do Iê-Iê-Iê
5.8/10
Os Alegres Vigaristas
Natal da Portela
7.3/10
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
A Lei do Cão
Bebeto is a playboy who commits a passional crime killing a friend because of his fiancee. Feeling cornered he kills other four people to survive and scapes to the countryside where meets Quinzinho, a professional hitman who protect him. Then Bebeto starts a romance with a local woman causing the wrath of the population and forcing him to leave.
O Vale do Canaã
6.3/10
The film depicts the arrival of immigrants in the city of Espírito Santo following the history of Carlos, an Italian who struggles for his place against Hermann Gunter, a German colonist who rules the region.
Tem Folga na Direção
6.5/10
Taradas no Cio
Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta
7/10
After marrying everyday man Zózimo, Engraçadinha, who had been through intense sexual experiences as a teenager, settles to live a quiet and normal life. As the years go by, her teenage daughter's behaviour seems to call back Engraçadinha's own teenage days.
Mar do Pecado
O Grande Desbum
