arrow_back
menu
Magnus Filmes
location_onRio de Janeiro RJpublicBR
A Serpente 1992    star_border 2
Two sisters are newly married; Guida to Paulo and Lígia to Décio. They spend their honeymoon in the apartment, a gift from the father of the brides. They will live there. Just a wall separating the intimacy of the two couples. Guida and Paulo are very happy. But on the other side of the wall; Ligia and Decius were never able to consummate their marriage. Decius is impotent and Ligia decides to commit suicide. To avoid the tragedy Guida, asks her own husband Paul to sleep with her sister for one night to help her losing her virginity. But when they continue to see each other, Guida gets jealous.
playlist_add
O Gigante da América 1980    star_border 5.2
A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.
playlist_add
I Killed Lucio Flavio 1979    star_border 4.4
In the early seventies in Rio de Janeiro, detective Mariel Moryscötte de Mattos belonged to a special police force called "The Golden Men". This powerful group of the elite of the police was created with the intention of eliminate crime from Rio de Janeiro, and they had privileges above law to expedite their action against the outlaws. However, absolute power in wrong hands corrupts, and this group formed the "Death Squad", executing criminals without the conventional trial from the justice.
playlist_add
O Escolhido de Iemanjá 1978    star_border 5
playlist_add
Black Goddess 1978
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at his father's deathbed, the young Babatunde promises to go to Brazil and search for traces of their once-enslaved ancestors. Beginning with a Candomblé ritual, his journey takes him ever deeper into this culture and, in a dream-like sequence, affords him a deeper understanding of his ancestors' suffering and powers of resistance. Balogun effortlessly links present with past, real with magical worlds and discourse with trance. The hypnotic atmosphere is also heightened by the music of the Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka, which plays with repetitive patterns and distortions.
playlist_add
Os Amores da Pantera 1977    star_border 5
During an orgy of millionaires, a woman is mysteriously kidnapped and killed. The crime causes quite a stir in local society, as the investigations points to a very known addicted playboy. Although it's never said, the film is vaguely based on a real case happened in 1975, when socialite Ângela Diniz was killed by her lover Doca Street, in Búzios, Brazil.
playlist_add
Who Killed Pacifico? 1977
Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing unites them: the three are suspected of having murdered Colonel Pacífico, the rich and powerful owner of the city of Parada de Deus, in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais. However, jail may be the least of his problems, as the colonel's brother is a bloodthirsty gunslinger looking for revenge.
playlist_add
Tem Folga na Direção 1976
playlist_add
Nós, Os Canalhas 1975
Two twin brothers, Cláudio José and José Cláudio, definitively separate when one of them decides to leave for the big city. Years later, the second brother also started living in Rio de Janeiro. One night, he is attacked by three thugs, who kill his pregnant wife and leave him disfigured. In search of revenge, he follows in the footsteps of his brother, who will find himself working for a crime figure. And in pursuit of his discoveries, he began to wage his revenge against the criminals on the same level as he had been confronted.
playlist_add
Obsessão 1973    star_border 5
A small town in Brazil is the background for this thriller about a murder, disclosing corruption among the leaders of the region.
playlist_add
Choro Dele 1973
playlist_add
A Filha de Madame Betina 1973
Otavio has to find and marry Madame Bettina's daughter if he wants to inherit her fortune.
playlist_add
O Enterro da Cafetina 1971    star_border 3.8
As the owner of a very famous bordello in Rio de Janeiro gets buried, an old scoundrel remembers his own past among the bohemian circles of the city.
playlist_add
Mãos Vazias 1971    star_border 4.3
In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a woman rebels against local morality after her child dies, with tragic results.
playlist_add
O Vale do Canaã 1970
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.
playlist_add
Memoirs of a Gigolo 1970    star_border 3
Man raised in a brothel tries to earn his living as a pimp, but gets in trouble when his girlfriend cheats him with an older man.
playlist_add
Two Lost in a Dirty Night 1970    star_border 4.2
Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room.
playlist_add
Os Raptores 1969    star_border 6
Bruno is a physician whose license had been revoked, due to some ethical problems in the past. He gathers some criminals to kidnap the children of two powerful bankers. While the police faces contradictory evidence and clues, Bruno starts killing the other criminals, to keep the ransom for himself.
playlist_add
O Matador Profissional 1969    star_border 3.8
Hit man does his part in a deal, but doesn't get the money he was promised. For the treason, he decides to eliminate them all.
playlist_add
Razor in the Flesh 1969    star_border 4.3
A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello's gay cleaner fight over the gigolo's missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.
playlist_add
Show more expand_more