Tonico Pereira Movies

Eroticism melds with power in director Julio Bressane's lyrical portrait of the last Queen of Egypt. Alessandra Negrini stars as the irresistible ruler who held Roman leaders in the palm of her hand with the sheer power of sensuality, with Miguel Falabella and Bruno Garcia assuming the roles of Julio Cesar and Marco Antonio respectively. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Luciana (Cristina Prochaska) runs a pottery shop which the local women visit in large numbers. She is reputed to be a witch; however, it is only clear that she has allied herself to the town priest (Venarando Ribeiro) in his fight against the murderous ways of the town mayor (Ednei Giovenazzi), who has already ordered the killing of a poor local man in a land dispute. Luciana's brother Alfonso (Tonico Pereira), however, is a close ally of the mayor, and attempts not only to take over the pottery shop, but to bed his sister into the bargain. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

A better-than-average Brazilian docudrama, this look at 20 years in the life of the notorious Tenorio Cavalcanti (Jose Wilker) leans heavily on the contributions of his family. Cavalcanti was a gunslinger in the tradition of an American Western. He was elected to Congress, where he showed up wearing a long black coat, a matching beard, and toting a machine gun. He is reputed to have killed many an opponent and built himself a veritable fortress for protection against his enemies -- which would eventually include the Brazilian army. He defended the rights of the people of the Duque de Caxias region with a vengeance. This drama takes particular note of his activities between 1945, when he joined a major political party, and 1964, when a military coup ousted the elected president. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this suspense tale with a gap here and there in the action, a father (Claudio Marzo) inexplicably brings his teenage son who has been away at school for many years, to an empty apartment in Rio de Janeiro. Alone and worried about what might happen next, the young man slowly finds out that his father has a relationship with the woman who owns the apartment, and also with a terrorist who has just been assassinated. As the teenager begins to unravel the mystery of his father's behavior, some sinister and dangerous political activities come to the fore -- and he realizes that both his future and that of his father are in jeopardy. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

The horror of life in a Brazilian prison from an inmate's view is chronicled in this drama based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Gracilano Ramos. The tale takes place in the 1930s when Brazil was run by dictator Getulio Vargas. It begins as the Marxist oriented protagonist is arrested with no explanation. Once imprisoned, the authorities allow him to write--provided he can find pen and paper. In the end, his writing has such impact on the public that authorities release him. Had they not, he would have died from their brutal cruelty. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi