Grande Otelo Movies

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is...

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.

Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair...

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and...

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the...

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective...

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural...

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently...