Murilo Salles

The Lives We Lead (2025)

The story of the relationship between Military Police commander Domingos Macedo and his children over three decades. Raised in a toxic family environment, the children struggle to survive the rigid rule of a man forged by the brutality of the Military Poli ...

Mário de Andrade, O Turista Aprendiz (2024)

A Bay (2021)

The Baía de Guanabara is not just any bay: the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro has sprawled around it. Its waste water threatens the rich ecosystem, planes roar along the approach corridors above. These filmic explorations on the margins of the megaci ...

Tunga – Registros (2016)

Aprendi a Jogar Com Você (2015)

O Fim e os Meios (2015)

Paulo (Pedro Brício), a publicist of Rio de Janeiro, moves to Brasília (capital of Brazil) to be the manager of the public image of a senator who wants reelection. Paulo is accompanied by his wife, Cris (Cintia Rosa), a journalist with whom he has a smal ...

Passarinho Lá de Nova Iorque (2014)

Camila Jam (2007)

Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter argument. Camila's ambition is to become a writer, and she posts regularly on her blog, entitled "Camila Jam." H ...

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. ...

És tu, Brasil (2003)

A series foccusing the creative process of 4 young Brazilian artists: Carlinhos Brown (music), Tunga (painter), Deborah Colker (choreographer)and Alexandre Herchcovitch (fashion designer) through the eyes of director Murilo Salles. ...

Seja O Que Deus Quiser! (2002)

After getting involved with an MTV VJ, a musician ends up being accused of setting up a robbery against her. To clear his name, he goes to São Paulo, but gets involved in situations that distance him from his peaceful life. ...

How Angels are Born (1996)

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter. ...

Two Billion Hearts (1995)

For just over an hour and a half, Two Billion Hearts takes the viewer back to the adventure of the world cup of the United States and packs the audience on a journey through emotion, the expressions of their protagonists, fans in the stadiums and in the st ...

João & Antônio (1992)

A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim. ...

Pornography (1992)

Pornography is a film-manifesto. An outburst against the summary execution of Brazilian cinema. It is simple and straightforward: explicit sex, on-screen text, National Anthem. ...

Two-Edged Knife (1989)

Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is cheating on him with his business partner and best friend, he decides to execute a perfect plan that involv ...

Tensão no Rio (1984)

Happier Than Ever (1984)

During the military dictatorship, a political militant takes his son out of the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really ...

Tabu (1983)

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade. ...

The Kiss (1981)

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, toget ...

I Love You (1981)

After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness. ...

Cabaret Mineiro (1981)

An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth. ...

These Are the Weapons (1978)

The agitprop film Estas são as armas by Murilo Salles was edited together from archival images and formed one of the first works to be produced by the newly founded film institute in Maputo. ...

Plantar nas Estrelas (1978)

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. ...

Leila Para Sempre Diniz (1976)

A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed on a plane crash in 1972, discuss about her life, her work and her legacy in Brazilian culture. ...

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. ...

The Star Rises (1974)

A veteran popular singer remembers her early days before fame as a humble woman who faced many obstacles in order to achieve fame, notoriety and make her dreams come true. Her life, the songs, the men she knew and helped her on her ladder to success all ha ...

Um Edifício Chamado 200 (1974)

Bullock Cart (1974)

Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last. ...

Tati, a Garota (1973)

The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's sometimes fills in for Tati's father, giving the girl temporary happiness. ...

Sebastião Prata, ou Bem Dizendo, Grande Otelo (1971)

Short documentary film offering a rare portrait on legendary Brazilian actor Grande Otelo, recorded at his own family home. ...

Emboscada (1971)

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. ...

A Linguagem do Cinema (2001)

A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach. ...

How Angels are Born (1996)

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter. ...