Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Heart of Darkness (2025)

Rio de Janeiro, near future. Marlow is a police officer assigned to a mission to find Captain Kurtz, a famous policeman who went missing in mysterious circumstances. Marlow has to do his mission in a boat, undertaking a dangerous journey through the outski ...

A Arte de Morrer ou Marta Diptero Braquícero (2024)

Night. Despair. Two flies meet and recognise each other in a restaurant abandoned to its own fate. ...

Son of Ox (2024)

João is a lonely boy living in the outback. No friends, no mother, and no bond with his father, he finds a chance to overcome his fears and a possibility to fit in when a small circus arrives in town. ...

Menino Azul (2021)

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Marighella (2021)

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionar ...

Under the Heavens (2020)

Marta, a young Venezuelan mother, immigrates to Brazil. During her journey, she meets a struggling young couple. The couple has a baby and Marta the ability to breastfeed. ...

A Family Submerged (2018)

Marcela's world becomes strange and unfamiliar after her sister Rina dies. She feels lost in her own house, and her relationship with her husband and children seems to suffer. But when Nacho, a young friend of her daughter's, unexpectedly drops by, she sta ...

Irmã Dulce (2014)

Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the "Good Angel of Bahia", also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an in ...

Fragma (2013)

Two lives look for meaning into a time that was lived, dreamed, and above all, felt. ...

The Inventor of Dreams (2013)

Centered on two young boys, an aristocrat and a native, chronicles the period in which Brazil went from colony to the center of the Portuguese Empire. ...

Time and the Wind (2013)

Based on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. ...

Acalanto (2013)

An illiterate lady seeks to soothe the missing of her son asking for a friend to read several times the same unique and old letter sent by her son ten years ago. Through these readings , a great friendship and complicity were born between them. ...

The Midday Sun (2010)

After a tragic crime of passion, Artur leaves the depths of Brazil on a journey in search of redemption. Early on, he meets Matuim, the anarchic captain of an old vessel, and comes to befriend him through a series of tense and comic situations. ...

O Homem Mau Dorme Bem (2009)

In a petrol station near the road, three characters meet: Rita, the station's owner, that keeps searching for a love that she thought she once had; Wésley, a seller of pirate DVD's and CD's that, after thrown into underemployment, is trying to rebuilt his ...

O Natal do Menino Imperador (2008)

Mutum (2007)

Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place t ...

Romance do Vaqueiro Voador (2007)

Dry Movie (2005)

Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories. ...

Carandiru (2003)

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America's largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo' ...

How to Die in Cinema (2002)

Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia. ...

Behind the Sun (2001)

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left ...

Me, You, Them (2000)

A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast. ...

Midnight (1998)

On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone. ...

Perfumed Ball (1997)

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit. ...

Closes (1982)

A documentary produced in super-8 with a mixture of fiction. It caused a stir wherever it was shown, having to be subjected to the censorship in force at the time of the military regime. It poetically addresses the various prejudices and conflicts that inv ...

Aluísio, the Silence and the Sea (2022)

The silence of the days packs Aluísio's lonely life. From the waters that were once Josiah's loss, he finds Jonas, unconscious and wounded. Under the constant gaze of the sea, the passing of the days, and the relationship that arises, their lives become i ...