Eduardo Coutinho Movies

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues...

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual...

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt...

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

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

Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during...

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses,...

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

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects...

"Master" is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro's neighborhood for nightlife. Over the course of four weeks in...

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

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties...

Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.

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

Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.

Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.

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