Tainá: An Amazon Adventure
★ 4.9 · 2001 · 90m · Family · Fantasy · Adventure
A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfather, pairs with a boy from the big city, against animal traffickers in the Amazon forest.
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