Joel Barcellos Movies

Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old...

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and...

Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estacio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she...

The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.

Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way...

During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.

Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums,...

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.

A family of Brazilian farmers is desperately looking for work and moves from city to city.

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to...

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília....

Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her...

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual...

Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent...

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the...

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal...

Six episodes set in and focusing on the history of Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Episode list: A Paisagem Natural (dir. Vladimir...