Domingos de Oliveira Movies

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to...

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a...

On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du...

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the...

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is...

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of...

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...

Hannan is a brilliant Talmudic scholar who is constantly searching for something that not even he knows exactly what it is, living in the anguish of...

Four actresses in their mid-forties get together in the afternoon to write a play about their own experiences. But the director isn't satisfied with...

A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.

A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.

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

In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana....

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the...

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had...

In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

Thales, a successful businessman, is in crisis with his profession. He is married to the rich and spoiled Renata, and works with her father, the...