Jorge Coutinho Movies

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Vereza

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

Genre: History

Cast: Othon Bastos

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ribeiro

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zózimo Bulbul

Inspired by the life of one of the most famous policemen in the history of Brazil: detective Perpétuo de Freitas, immortalized in the annals...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Moraes

Fable about the financial and social ascension of a black man in a small town, in the interior of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jorge Coutinho

Filmmaker Roberto Farias' passion for cinema is revealed by his daughter Marise Farias through an intimate look, from childhood to his political,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roberto Farias

The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Medeiros

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Moraes

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

Genre: History

Cast: Tony Tornado

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

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Cast: Betty Faria

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mick Jagger

Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Hall

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jofre Soares

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Flávio Migliaccio

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jece Valadão

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective...

Genre: Crime

Cast: José Augusto Branco

Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Zico

A young rock singer meets his childhood heroine, a famous singer who is now wallowing in alcohol and sex.

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Cast: Esther Góes

The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lázaro Ramos

Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danton Mello

During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zózimo Bulbul

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antônio Pitanga