Brazilian movies

Olga is a 2004 Brazilian film directed by Jayme Monjardim. It was Brazil's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Olga is the compelling feature-film chronicle of German Jew Olga Benario Prestes’ (1908-1942) life and times. A communist activist since her youth, Olga is persecuted by the Police and flees to Moscow, where she undergoes military training. She is put in charge of escorting Luis Carlos Prestes to Brazil to lead the Communist Revolution of 1935, falling in love with him long the way. With the failure of the Revolution, Olga is arrested alongside Prestes.

Seven-month pregnant Olga is deported by President Vargas’ Government to Nazi Germany, where she gives birth to her daughter Anita Leocádia while incarcerated. Separated from her daughter, Olga is sent away to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she is executed in the gas chamber. She died believing in the fight for her ideals of freedom, social justice, and a better future for mankind.

O Homem que Copiava is a 2003 Brazilian comedy film by Jorge Furtado, set in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. André Maciel, a young man who works in a photocopier shop, falls in love with his neighbour Sílvia, who works in a clothes shop. In order to get closer to her he decides to buy a dress he can't afford. To pay for it he begins photocopying money, which quickly gets out of control. Once he realizes that he can get away with photocopying money, he decides to try it on a slightly larger scale. Even so, he realizes that the amount he can make by photocopying is limited and so he looks for better ways to get money. Being a guy with little education and a job as a copy machine operator, he decides that the only way out he has is to rob a bank somehow, so that he can run away with his sweetheart Silvia.

The film is directed and writing by Jorge Furtado and starring actors like: Lazaro Ramos, Leandra Leal, Luana Piovani and Pedro Cardoso.

O auto da compadecida  is a 2000 Brazilian comedy film, directed by Guel Arraes, with a screenplay by Arraes and Adriana Falcão. It is based on the 1955 play of almost the same name by Ariano Suassuna,  is a comedy of northeast Brazil. It combines elements of the tradition of popular literature known as cordel, a striking feature of the Brazilian Catholic baroque, mixing popular culture and religious tradition.

Joao Grilo (Matheus Nachtergaele) and Chicó (Selton Mello), two poor friends, walk the streets announcing The Passion of the Christ. João Grilo and Chicó a prepare numerous plans to get some money. The story is so funny and tells about two guys who do everything to earn some money to live better. The story is an adaptation of the original work of the author Ariano Suassuna, a model of a literary register called Cordel. It is a popular literature that developed in the northeast of Brazil and is characterized by being a simple text with rhymed verses and portraying the everyday life of common people.