Othon Bastos Movies

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son...

São Paulo, May 1978. Three slates compete for the leadership of the Metalworkers' Union of São Paulo, the largest in Latin America,...

The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much...

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His...

Priest Marcelo Rossi visits a juvenile correction center, and gives Paulo, one of the interns, a Bible. He starts reading the story of St. Paul.

Two students make a date in a secluded cave behind their school, where they could be undisturbed. But on arrival they see a corpse. They run to...

From the clay used to make tiles or clay clay, an image of Lampião, the king of Cangaço, begins to emerge through the work of...

This biopic documents the life and work of one of Brazil’s most prolific artists: Milton Gonçalves. This actor and director are credited...

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867...

Hugo Kari is a famous singer who decides to take a break from his schedule to find his father, ambassador Mário Menezes. Together, they try to...

Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.

A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.

Locked up for decades in a maximum security prison, an old man tries to revive his glory days as a magician, putting into practice a perfect - but...