Walter Carvalho Movies

An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernanda Montenegro

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ângelo Antônio

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Júlio Bressane

Three friends, Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar, meet in a rundown downtown apartment during a weekend to chat, drink and experience pleasure.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bel García

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor"...

Genre: Music

Cast: Caetano Veloso

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Massaro

A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Emmanuel Cavalcanti

A kind wanderer living around a circus, who also happens to work as a modern Robin Hood, must solve the mystery behind the kidnapping of a lost...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Renato Aragão

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Thomaz Farkas

Genre: Documentary

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We live in a new age. We are always rushing, rushing for no reason, rushing for nothing. As though time had sped up. Everything implies speed,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: André Comte-Sponville

People who moved from São Paulo, a large city, to the countryside, come back to see a play. Later, they learn the driver of their chartered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otávio Augusto

The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Medeiros

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel de Oliveira

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Fagundes

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rodrigo Santoro

In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

Creative documentary on multi-faceted Brazilian musician Radames Gnattali

Genre: Music

Cast: Radamés Gnattali

The story of André, the rebel runaway son from a dominant Lebanese-Brazilian family who returns to the nest after a few years. "Lavoura...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Selton Mello

Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irandhir Santos

The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Ramos

Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josie Antello

José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rodrigo Santoro

Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irandhir Santos

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cristina Amadeo

Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amanda Diniz

The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Selton Mello

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Villar

The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alessandra Negrini

Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for...

Genre: Documentary

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A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Teixeira

In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermila Guedes

In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo Autran

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

In a poor neighborhood in Recife, the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leona Cavalli

A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lázaro Ramos

Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Murilo Benício

Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andréa Beltrão

After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernanda Torres

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Américo de Almeida

In the 40s, a sergeant is ordered to escort a political prisoner from Paulo Afonso to Aracaju, Brazil. During the trip, there's a change in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lima Duarte

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antônio Carlos Jobim

An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raul Cortez

Documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nilton Cerqueira

A real state agency wants to buy and demolish the traditional school Matheus Rose, to use the lot to build a hotel. The proposition unleashes a feel...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renato Aragão

An account on the immersion process of Brazilian method actor Irandhir Santos, while building up his character for "Redemoinho" (Whirlpool, 2017),...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irandhir Santos

Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milionário

Documentary about Flamengo, one of the most popular soccer teams in Brazil

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rodolfo Arena

Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ornella Muti

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Geneton Moraes Neto

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antonio Manoel

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cristina Prochaska

A population close to Brasília receives a group of people from the big city that tries to recover lost elements of the local culture

Genre: Documentary

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Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marco Ricca

This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla"....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lázaro Ramos

Genre: Documentary

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In the small town of Taperoá João Grilo and confusion Chicó live setting, addressing a sacristan and a humble baker. Everyone...

Genre: Family

Cast: Renato Aragão

Documentary about the oppression of a group of a families of the MST, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bolívar Anoni

Zuzu Zero, the Angry Eagle from the Agunia team. The story of this emblematic persona is mixed with one of the most traditional parades from the...

Genre: Documentary

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When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request:...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lázaro Ramos

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eduardo Galeano

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Massaro

Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Lins do Rego

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Saramago

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adão Xalebaradã

On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jorge Amado

When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Franz Krajcberg

Four years after a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systematic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irene Ravache

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pelé

Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lenicio Queiroga

Genre: Documentary

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Documentary made in the municipality of Luziânia - Goiás, presenting a black community, a remnant of the old quilombo.

Genre: Documentary

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The contrast in the extremely rudimentary form of xelite mining and the use of tungsten, obtained from xelite, in the most complex instruments of...

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Drama

Cast: W.J. Solha

Crime and crime-fighting in Rio de Janeiro. With the master of disguise, the great police inspector Jamil Warwar, playing himself in the film. Jamil...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jamil Warwar

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stela Freitas

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nelson Xavier

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Biachini

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Echio Reis

Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arnaldo Jabor

Professor Singer can be assessed as an enlightenment: he was also an educator, even (or above all) when he made politics. A major character in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Singer

Twin brothers arrive in Rio during the Carnival. One is a priest and is going to work in a parish; the other, a drug-dealer, in a business trip to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aldo Maccione

Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Othon Bastos

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alexandra Dahlström

José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Medeiros

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Saramago

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel de Oliveira

As the world boiled in the rush of Easy Rider bikes, in the frenetic pace of Elvis Presley, in Beatniks poets, in the explosion of counterculture, a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Raul Seixas

Facing many problems, such as impaired hearing and speaking, abnormal bone formation and poverty, Brazilian black naïve artist Moacir lives in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Moacir

A lyrical look at Antonio Nóbrega’s universe. A lifetime’s work that is characterized by the consistent reading of popular...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Rosane Almeida

An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ariano Suassuna

An account on the immersion process of Brazilian method actor Irandhir Santos, while building up his character for "Redemoinho" (Whirlpool, 2017),...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irandhir Santos

A visual account of when an image finds the photograph.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Carvalho

Genre: Music

Cast: Mônica Salmaso

A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Teixeira

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Saramago

An account on the immersion process of Brazilian method actor Irandhir Santos, while building up his character for "Redemoinho" (Whirlpool, 2017),...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irandhir Santos