Eduardo Coutinho

Last Conversations (2015)

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho's longtime partner, film edi ...

Fifty Years Later (2014)

After an initial meeting in 1964 interrupted by military dictatorship and a new meeting in the early 1980s to end the film "Twenty Years Later", Eduardo Coutinho once again find Elizabeth Teixeira, survivor of peasant struggles. ...

Sobreviventes de Galileia (2014)

In January 2013, Eduardo Coutinho back to Pernambuco to rediscover two of the characters in "Twenty Years Later" (1984): Cicero and João José. ...

Songs (2011)

Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the director engages his subjects in conversation about the song they picked. The end product is deeply personal ...

A Day in the Life (2010)

The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter. ...

Moscow (2009)

Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during rehearsals for the Galpão Theater Company's performance of Chekov's The Three Sisters. As he shoots scenes from t ...

Jogo de Cena (2007)

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation. ...

The End and the Beginning (2006)

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands in search of people with stories to tell. In the town of São João do Rio Peixe, they discover the Araç� ...

Metalworkers (2004)

In 1979 and 1980, workers in São Paulo's metallurgical industry organized a series of strikes that changed the face of union politics in Brazil. In the process, they established the groundwork for Brazil's Worker's Party and brought to the national spotli ...

Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002)

The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams... ...

Oswaldo Cruz na Amazônia (2002)

The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century. ...

Babilônia 2000 (2001)

Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999. ...

Porrada! (2000)

Programa do Ratinho DNA test played by the members of Instituto Philippe Pinel and filmed by Eduardo Coutinho. ...

Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil. ...

The Mighty Spirit (1999)

An overview of Brazilian spirituality and religions. ...

Dá pra Segurar! (1997)

Stimulated by sketches in which young actors improvise about situations related to AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro and teenagers from the Zona Sul and the Baixada Fluminense debate these themes ...

Mulheres no Front (1996)

Three stories of female action in social movements, close in their struggle but distant in the geographical space: the Jardim Uchôa Residents Association, in Recife; the Rancho Fundo Residents Association, in Rio de Janeiro; and the Popular Legal Prosecut ...

Seis Histórias (1995)

Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly created in 1995) of two Brazilian cities, Blumenau and Belo Horizonte. ...

Os Romeiros do Padre Cícero (1994)

The documentary follows a truck of pilgrims on their pilgrimage from Fernandes, in the municipality of Arapiraca, in Alagoas, to Juazeiro - a journey of 700 km covered in 16 hours. Testimonies of former pilgrims and their descendants established in Juazeir ...

Ulysses Cidadão (1993)

The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies. ...

The Scavengers (1992)

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever the ...

A Lei e a Vida (1992)

Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. ...

The Memory Thread (1991)

A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos. ...

O Jogo da Dívida: Quem Deve a Quem? (1990)

Documentary about the Latin American foreign debt, made in five blocks that cover everything from a brief history of debt to some possible alternatives for a solution, passing through the description of its mechanisms, its most serious crises and its socia ...

Volta Redonda – Memorial Da Greve (1989)

In the late 1970s, the labor movement began to gain strength. In 1988, the workers of the National Steel Company (CSN) in the city of Volta Redonda decreed a great strike. Military intervention is immediate; repression kills three young workers and injures ...

Santa Marta: Duas Semanas no Morro (1987)

The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence. ...

Twenty Years Later (1984)

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred s ...

O Homem de Areia (1982)

Índia, a Filha do Sol (1982)

A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to. ...

Portinari, O Menino de Brodósqui (1980)

Produced for Globo Repórter, a documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about the master Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari. ...

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja (1979)

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city of Exu, which had dragged on since 1949 with violent deaths side by side. Shown as a Globo Repórter Documento, di ...

Theodorico, o Imperador do Sertão (1978)

Theodoro Bezerra is a member of the Brazilian elite, a farmer and politician since the 1940s who has been elected as a state congressman by the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He concentrates on his own characteristics as a popular leader, despite being sexi ...

O Pistoleiro de Serra Talhada (1977)

A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil's Northeast. ...

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life. ...

Superstição (1976)

In June 1976, Eduardo Coutinho and film reporter Mário Ferreira traveled to the northeastern backlands to record the documentary Superstição. The film revealed the customs, legends, and beliefs of the country people. ...

Seis Dias de Ouricuri (1976)

Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies. ...

Love Lesson (1975)

A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get involved, and she teaches him love lessons instead. ...

Os Condenados (1974)

In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution. ...

Faustão (1971)

A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique Pereira, son of Colonel Pereira, is wounded in an ambush. Faustão rescues him and demands the father to pay a ransom in e ...

The Man Who Bought the World (1968)

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape. ...

The ABC of Love (1967)

Film that includes three short films by different authors about love: "O pacto" by Eduardo Coutinho, "Terrible Night" by Rodolfo Kuhn, and "Magic World" by Helvio Soto. ...

The Girl from Ipanema (1967)

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremel ...

The Deceased (1965)

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde. ...

Five Times Favela (1962)

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

Le Telephone (1959)

Made during the time Eduardo Coutinho was studying cinema at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (Idhec), in the French capital, the fictional short film shows a man (Elie Presman) who tries to make a marriage proposal, but is constantly in ...

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself. ...

The Method (2019)

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality. ...

A Treat of Coutinho (2019)

Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how t ...

Memórias do Grupo Opinião (2019)

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous ...

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema (2015)

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro. ...

Sete Visitas (2015)

How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On the other side, someone asks questions – usually away from the camera eyes. But what would happen if also filmed the interviewers? And if the respondent a ...

Last Conversations (2015)

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho's longtime partner, film edi ...

Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro (2013)

A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods. ...

Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira (2011)

Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho. ...

Coutinho.doc - Apartment 608 (2009)

The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from the research phase until the end of the filming of "Master, a Building in Copacabana". ...

Moscow (2009)

Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during rehearsals for the Galpão Theater Company's performance of Chekov's The Three Sisters. As he shoots scenes from t ...

Capturing Reality (2008)

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the compl ...

Critic (2008)

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and ...

Jogo de Cena (2007)

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation. ...

1964: 40 Years After (2004)

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the military dictatorship in Brazil. Around 40 characters reveal behind the scenes and comment in detail on this im ...

Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002)

The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams... ...

Madame Satã (2002)

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã. ...

Babilônia 2000 (2001)

Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999. ...

Movie Theaters of Rio (2001)

The story of Rio de Janeiro's movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema. ...

The Mighty Spirit (1999)

An overview of Brazilian spirituality and religions. ...

Dib (1997)

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema. ...

The Memory Thread (1991)

A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos. ...

Twenty Years Later (1984)

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred s ...

Câncer (1972)

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society. ...

The Girl from Ipanema (1967)

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremel ...

The Beggars (1963)

A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place. ...