Eduardo Coutinho Movies

A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique...

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

The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter.

Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the...

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

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

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

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by...

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

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

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

Theodoro Bezerra is a member of the Brazilian elite, a farmer and politician since the 1940s who has been elected as a state congressman by the state...

A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel...

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...

An overview of brazilian spirituality and religions.

How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On the other side, someone asks questions –...

Three stories of female action in social movements, close in their struggle but distant in the geographical space: the Jardim Uchôa Residents...

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

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.