Luiz Carlos Barreto Movies

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Dolphin, who...

Documentary that tells several stories: of the struggle of rural workers in Conceição to recover their union; of Dona Mariquinha, widow...

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower.

One of Brazil's most popular contemporary dance ensembles, Grupo Corpo combines Afro-Brazilian movements with ballet and modern dance to create an...

General's daughter, who lives with her boyfriend without being married, gets in trouble when her conservative father decides to visit her. A friend...

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...

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main...

In the mid-1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants, became leader of a sect that believed in healing the body by cleansing the soul. After...

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the...

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

After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the...

The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's...

Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer's history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of...

From Ceará to Bahia, passing through Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Pernambuco (and with the counterpoint of the Northeastern...

Folklore and scholarly research: a field study on the congadas of the Festa do Serro, in Minas Gerais. The stages of the congada, divided into three...