Laerte Coutinho

Reading Again Graúna (2024)

The documentary reconstructs the history of Graúna, one of the most famous comic characters in Brazil during the '70s. Analyzing creator Henfil's usage of this poor, little, female blackbird to criticize the social inequities and censorship in Brazil of t ...

Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People (2021)

Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator. ...

Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde (2020)

As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. Both were surprised by the sudden need to cancel planned trips to Brazil, their homeland. The closed borders brought un ...

A Turma do Pererê.DOC (2019)

Marked in history as the first Brazilian comic book, totally in nuclei, Turma do Pererê is considered a giant influence for several later authors, such as Maurício de Sousa. In addition to being the first to address topics such as ecology and social incl ...

Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites (2018)

A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from military dictatorship. ...

The City of Pirates (2018)

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after ...

Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo (2018)

An emotional geographic reading of the city of São Paulo, created through hundreds of love stories from its residents. Neighborhoods, streets, parks and houses that sometimes no longer exist, or are invisible to most people, come to life in the stories to ...

Casa da Xiclet (2017)

Xiclet is a plastic artist who settled in São Paulo in the early years 2000 and has since transformed the house where he lives in a public space, focused on the dissemination of artists who stay out of the great circuit of the arts. In addition to artist ...

Laerte-se (2017)

In this film, Laerte conjugates the body in the feminine, and scrutinizes concepts and prejudices. Not in search of an identity, but in search of un-identities. Laerte creates and sends creatures to face reality in the fictional world of comic strips as a ...

Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press (2016)

Inspired by the US paper "Gay Sunshine", in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the dictatorship – the newspaper "O Lampião", depicting the point of view of gays on various issues, including sexuality. A group of journalists and writers from Rio ...

Super Oldboy (2016)

Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery. ...

Tie and Red Nail (2014)

Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe ...

Legs Out (2012)

The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate. ...

Laughter of Others (2012)

There are limits to jokes? What is the politically incorrect humor? A joke has the power to offend? It is these issues that 'Laughter of Others' discusses interviewing personalities such as comedians Danilo Gentili and Rafinha Bastos, cartoonist Laerte and ...

Consideração do Poema (2011)

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others. ...

Malditos Cartunistas (2010)

Documentary that presents an overview of the production of cartoons and comics in Brazil. ...

Dossiê Rê Bordosa (2008)

Envy? Ego issues? Malice? In 1987, Angeli, one of the most important cartoonists in Brazil, coldly murdered one of his most famous creations, the underground diva Rê Bordosa. ...

Três Irmãos de Sangue (2006)

Cartas da Mãe (2003)

Overman: O Filme (2026)

An unemployed hero on the verge of an emotional and financial collapse, searches with all his strength for a purpose in life. When he receives an offer to work at the Public Security Secretariat, he feels relieved and thinks that he will finally be able to ...

The City of Pirates (2018)

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after ...

The Night of the Dumb Clowns (2012)

A movie adaptation of a story created by one of the greatest Brazilian cartoonists: Laerte. Two dumb clowns wander at night with the task of rescuing a kidnapped mate from an organization that aims to exterminate their kind. 'The Night of the Dumb Clowns' ...

Love is All (2011)

A family with financial difficulties has a brilliant idea: to make their daughter Lindinha get pregnant of the famous singer Ivan Cláudio to inherit a lot of money and get them out of the choke. They plan the right day that the girl should go out with the ...

That Guy (2006)

A man is chased by his fellow creatures, whom he does not look like. ...

Super Colosso (1995)

Movie version of Brazillian children's television series TV Colosso. ...