Movies: Joel Barcellos

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti....

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown....

An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of squares on the middle of neighborhoods Ipanema and Leblon. There, people of different social classes inter...

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos....

Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company....

The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric clinic. Not a simple Italian thriller but a "Russian doll", an open story with different levels of r...

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of...

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its use....

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 f...

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 19...

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

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son...

During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction....

Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums, where life changes very quickly in the short space of time....

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil....

A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them....

A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is ...

Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way of life that can guarantee their survival, since oxygen, which has become a good consumption, used nee...

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material....

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