Eduardo Coutinho Movies

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

Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.

The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century.

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

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

A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of...

In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution.

After an initial meeting in 1964 interrupted by military dictatorship and a new meeting in the early 1980s to end the film "Twenty Years Later",...

The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies.

A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get...

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

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands...

In the late 1970s, the labor movement began to gain strength. In 1988, the workers of the National Steel Company (CSN) in the city of Volta Redonda...

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

A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil's Northeast.

The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of...

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

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city...

Produced for Globo Repórter, a documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about the master Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari.

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...