Paulo José Movies

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

A documentary that chronologically traces the presence of women in Brazilian cinema.

Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character,...

"A view of São Paulo's rural architecture, from the remains of a sugar mill from the 1500s to a farm at the height of the coffee cycle in...

Five stories by Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa: in the hinterland of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a man fears for his life after having...

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in...

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of...

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...

A gang plans to carry out a major heist in a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. What they don’t know is that the city is home to the...

The story of a large family in which each member develops a strange occupation.

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...

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

Marina is in her late thirties and has recently become a widow. After finding an old photo album from her fifteenth birthday, she becomes curious...

Documentary about the brazilian poetess Ana Cristina Cesar, icon of the Mimeógrafo Generation and "Poesia Marginal", books like A Teus...

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...

Two fanatical Flamengo fans get drunk after a defeat of time; a voyeurist peers at his neighbor's nakedness with binoculars; a suburbanite kills his...

Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. During a general strike in the city of...

The religiosity of slave society is evident throughout the Pelourinho area: oratories and altars, cornices and windows, balconies and ornaments, both...

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one...