Jorge Coutinho Movies

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His...

A young rock singer meets his childhood heroine, a famous singer who is now wallowing in alcohol and sex.

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

The life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia.

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.

Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the...

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande...

Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the...

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for...

A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine...

Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective...

A Brazilian musical comedy

Inspired by the life of one of the most famous policemen in the history of Brazil: detective Perpétuo de Freitas, immortalized in the annals...

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.