Luiz Carlos Barreto Movies

Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman...

Romantic adventures of a group of Rio de Janeiro teenagers and surfers.

In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the...

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more...

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

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

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...

The documentary is an investigation into the life of Mario Wallace Simosen, a man who commanded conglomerates of several companies and was threatened...

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he...

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

Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying....

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...

Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of...

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.

A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

Documentary that chronicles the trajectory of the journalist, federal deputy, secretary of state, minister of state, governor and ambassador...

João-Sem-Direção knows Carvalhaes that proposes a blow to him. John does not accept the proposal, but ends up earning a hefty...

A story about how football, cinema, photojournalism and intimidation with power can come together in a protagonist figure in Brazilian history: Luiz...

João Goulart (known as Jango) had been democratically elected president of Brazil, but was expelled from office after the coup of April 1,...