Movies: Jorge Coutinho

  • 1990
    Stelinha

    Stelinha (1990)

    Stelinha

    5.51990HD

    A young rock singer meets his childhood heroine, a famous singer who is now wallowing in alcohol and sex....

    Stelinha
  • 1984
    Quilombo

    Quilombo (1984)

    Quilombo

    6.91984HD

    Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony bec...

    Quilombo
  • 2018
    Candeia

    Candeia (2018)

    Candeia

    02018HD

    The life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia....

    Candeia
  • 2016
    Pitanga

    Pitanga (2016)

    Pitanga

    5.62016HD

    This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues ...

    Pitanga
  • 1984
    Memories of Prison

    Memories of Prison (1984)

    Memories of Prison

    6.91984HD

    In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners....

    Memories of Prison
  • 1987
    Running Out of Luck

    Running Out of Luck (1987)

    Running Out of Luck

    5.71987HD

    A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events....

    Running Out of Luck
  • 1962
    Five Times Favela

    Five Times Favela (1962)

    Five Times Favela

    7.81962HD

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

    Five Times Favela
  • 1967
    Perpétuo Contra o Esquadrão da Morte

    Perpétuo Contra o Esquadrão da Morte (1967)

    Perpétuo Contra o Esquadrão da Morte

    01967HD

    Inspired by the life of one of the most famous policemen in the history of Brazil: detective Perpétuo de Freitas, immortalized in the annals of Brazilian criminal history for relentlessly pursuing and without the slightest assistance of the Rio polic...

    Perpétuo Contra o Esquadrão da Morte
  • 1963
    Ganga Zumba

    Ganga Zumba (1963)

    Ganga Zumba

    6.21963HD

    The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves....

    Ganga Zumba
  • 1978
    O Cortiço

    O Cortiço (1978)

    O Cortiço

    4.31978HD

    This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement....

    O Cortiço
  • 1981
    Cry Freedom

    Cry Freedom (1981)

    Cry Freedom

    61981HD

    Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the Mau-Mau uprising, it is set in an unnamed country and thus offers the vision of a pan-African struggle fo...

    Cry Freedom
  • 2013
    O Concurso

    O Concurso (2013)

    O Concurso

    5.22013HD

    Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem....

    O Concurso
  • 2019
    Mussum: Um Filme do Cacildis

    Mussum: Um Filme do Cacildis (2019)

    Mussum: Um Filme do Cacildis

    7.22019HD

    The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television....

    Mussum: Um Filme do Cacildis
  • 1978
    Black Goddess

    Black Goddess (1978)

    Black Goddess

    01978HD

    A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at...

    Black Goddess
  • 1977
    Sweet Thieves

    Sweet Thieves (1977)

    Sweet Thieves

    71977HD

    After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira....

    Sweet Thieves
  • 1979
    Parceiros da Aventura

    Parceiros da Aventura (1979)

    Parceiros da Aventura

    01979HD

    Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars....

    Parceiros da Aventura
  • 1998
    Uma Aventura do Zico

    Uma Aventura do Zico (1998)

    Uma Aventura do Zico

    3.31998HD

    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 player. But a small girl smells something fishy going on and asks her friends to help save the Brazilian so...

    Uma Aventura do Zico
  • 1949
    Também Somos Irmãos

    Também Somos Irmãos (1949)

    Também Somos Irmãos

    7.81949HD

    Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for dignity, winning in life due to his honesty and search for social recognition. His brother, on the cont...

    Também Somos Irmãos
  • 1978
    Summer Showers

    Summer Showers (1978)

    Summer Showers

    5.81978HD

    70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age....

    Summer Showers
  • 2004
    Cascalho

    Cascalho (2004)

    Cascalho

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    Cascalho