Paulo Sacramento

An Eye and a Knife (2018)

A group of friends working on an offshore oil rig maintain close bounds and do their best to face the difficulties presented by living and working isolated out in the middle of the sea. A job promotion triggers events that disrupt, in an irreversible way, ...

Ser O Que Se É (2018)

ABCs of Death 2 (2014)

Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe. ...

Aos Ventos que Virão (2014)

Riocorrente (2013)

Marcelo is a journalist. Carlos is a former car-thief. Renata is a woman torn apart by two relationships as diverse as her desires. Exu is the ever becoming. ...

My Country (2011)

A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, fina ...

Ninjas (2011)

In crisis after killing an innocent during action in the favela, a police officer is introduced into the unit of the "Ninjas" - extermination group that is dedicated to sadistically eliminating suspects of violent crimes. ...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009)

In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from ...

Embodiment of Evil (2008)

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to pris ...

O Aborto dos Outros (2008)

The documentary shows the experience of women who experienced abortion in four public hospitals in Brazil, and addresses motherhood, affectivity, intolerance, loneliness and the issue of illegality. ...

The Ballroom (2007)

An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire i ...

Querô (2007)

Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. His mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. Believing he rules his own destiny, he refuses to compromise with anyone els ...

Conception (2005)

A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last long. ...

What Is It Worth? (2005)

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil. ...

The Prisoner of the Iron Bars (2004)

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento trained some inmates and together with his crew, they produced many hours of footage, showing daily life in ...

Love from Mother Only (2003)

Filho is a miserable bastard. He's divided between the duty of nursing his fanatic mother and his obsessive lust for Formosa - a whore of Satan . His dilemma casts him into an abyss of violence, witchcraft, death and demonic trance. ...

Mango Yellow (2002)

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil. ...

Chronically Unfeasible (2000)

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes. ...

Tônica Dominante (2000)

Three days in the life of a young clarinetist (Fernando Alves Pinto), who is in love with a violinist (Vera Zimmerman), but can't get her attention. In the first day he feels alone and frail; in the second day what was supposed to be pleasant becomes a nig ...

Tepê (2000)

An atheist gets into a taxi whose driver is a believer who will try to convince him that God exists, but it was not quite as he had imagined. ...

Geraldo Filme (1998)

A dive into the universe of samba and black culture in São Paulo through the work of composer Geraldo Filme. ...

Kyrie ou o Início do Caos (1998)

A woman is mesmerized by a mystical sound and from there chaos begins to spread. ...

5 Filmes Estrangeiros (1997)

A sociopathic Nepalese man, a French couple in crisis, a manic Brazilian man, partying Paraguayans and touring African artists cross paths on one fateful day. ...

Um Homem Sério (1996)

Hilário Pestana, the most famous, funniest and, ironically, saddest Brazilian actor, has died. He has passed through many stages of Brazilian cinema: the chanchadas, the Vera Cruz classics, the pornochanchadas, and even experimental movies. He was beloved ...

The Soul of Business (1996)

A modern couple from a typical advertisement: young, attractive, and brand-conscious. As they use the products on their breakfast table they begin to quote lines from the relevant advertisemnet. Soon their behavior departs from the accepted advertising nor ...

São Paulo South Border (1995)

Rap, drugs and violence. One day in the suburbs of São Paulo. ...

Juvenile (1994)

An uncompromised from a young group of people. ...

Final Night Minus Five Minutes (1994)

While there's still oil, a maverick rushes through empty roads. ...

Love! (1994)

A funny yet bitter panorama of the several possible viewpoints of this feeling that fulfils hearts and minds. ...

Nunc et Semper (1993)

Ave (1992)

"Do what you want because everything will be legal". ...

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 Vermelha Luz do Bandido (2009)

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit". ...

Two Lost in a Dirty Night (1970)

Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room. ...