Domingos de Oliveira Movies

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

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

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...

At the heart of an upper-middle class family resides a bizarre love triangle. Two men, one woman. An essay on the various possibilities and rituals...

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of...

Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live,...

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...

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.

David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis,...

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 psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same...

Portuguese television version of the jekyll and hyde story from 1972.

Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's...

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...

Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of...

A couple of famous actors have a terrible marriage. Their feelings are so divided that one day one of them leaves, and yet someone just like him...

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