Eduardo Coutinho Movies

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands...

A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get...

A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of...

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

Documentary about the Latin American foreign debt, made in five blocks that cover everything from a brief history of debt to some possible...

In June 1976, Eduardo Coutinho and film reporter Mário Ferreira traveled to the northeastern backlands to record the documentary...

Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the...

Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly...

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of...

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city...

In January 2013, Eduardo Coutinho back to Pernambuco to rediscover two of the characters in "Twenty Years Later" (1984): Cicero and João...

Theodoro Bezerra is a member of the Brazilian elite, a farmer and politician since the 1940s who has been elected as a state congressman by the state...

In 1979 and 1980, workers in São Paulo’s metallurgical industry organized a series of strikes that changed the face of union politics in...

In an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for Globo Repórter on TV Globo. During the military...

Made during the time Eduardo Coutinho was studying cinema at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (Idhec), in the French...

An overview of Brazilian spirituality and religions.

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand...

Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012...

The documentary follows a truck of pilgrims on their pilgrimage from Fernandes, in the municipality of Arapiraca, in Alagoas, to Juazeiro - a journey...