Paulo Autran

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023)

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that ...

Zimba (2021)

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half ...

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 ...

Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos (2017)

A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil. ...

Inezita Barroso - A Voz e a Viola (2013)

Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro (2011)

Flávio Rangel - O Teatro na Palma da Mão (2009)

The Past (2007)

After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer him, torture hi ...

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil. ...

The Machine (2006)

In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré's son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to ...

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we w ...

Depois do Transe (2006)

The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Mar ...

Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova (2005)

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style. ...

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. ...

Poeta de Sete Faces (2002)

Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work. ...

Glauces: Estudo de um Rosto (2001)

The story of one of the greatest stars of Brazilian cinema, Glauce Rocha. ...

Oriundi (2000)

In a love story set in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, a patriarch witnesses the crumbling of his life-long family business at the hands of his descendants. Suddenly Sofia appears. Is she from this world, and is she the key to this family's happiness and their ...

O Enfermeiro (1999)

A male nurse goes to a small village in Bahia's countryside. Based on the Machado de Assis short story. ...

Tiradentes (1999)

The story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hang ...

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema. ...

Felicidade É... (1995)

Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness. ...

O Construtor de Sonhos (1994)

Fire and Passion (1989)

A bus tour to São Paulo's touristic spots bumps into several strange people. ...

O País dos Tenentes (1987)

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup. ...

Vertiges (1985)

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of F ...

O Menino Arco-Íris (1983)

The Crow (1983)

Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe. ...

O Transformista (1979)

Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança (1975)

Mar Corrente (1967)

Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She rekindles her relationship with her former boyfriend, Clóvis, and discovers how difficult the struggle for happiness is by seeing the example of the less for ...

Entranced Earth (1967)

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conser ...

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967)

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967. ...

Crônica da Cidade Amada (1965)

Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time. ...

Le Tout pour le tout (1962)

An unlucky trumpeter and a young singer try to rebuild their lives in Brazilian nightclubs. They will try everything for everything while making a risky heist. ...

As Sete Evas (1962)

When a lady-killer announces his wedding, seven of his ex-girlfriends decide to kidnap him, keeping him in a sailing ship. ...

É Proibido Beijar (1954)

Eduardo wants to become a police reporter. To do so, he unravels a mysterious crime, but fails to get the editor of his newspaper to promote it. He is engaged to Suzy, who works at a nightclub. In charge of interviewing a famous actress, June, gets involve ...

Destiny in Trouble (1953)

This was Brazil's first feature film in color. ...

Uma Pulga na Balança (1953)

Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives. ...

Veneno (1952)

An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer which resembles his wife a lot and conjures up a plan. ...

Appassionata (1952)

Sílvia Nogalis, a renowned concert pianist, prefers her career to her marriage. On the night she performs Beethoven's "Appassionata", she learns of the death of her husband, maestro Walter Hauser. ...