Eduardo Coutinho Movies

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to...

Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012...

Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.

A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands...

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

The documentary follows a truck of pilgrims on their pilgrimage from Fernandes, in the municipality of Arapiraca, in Alagoas, to Juazeiro - a journey...

A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get...

The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century.

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

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

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...

Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during...

An overview of brazilian spirituality and religions.

After an initial meeting in 1964 interrupted by military dictatorship and a new meeting in the early 1980s to end the film "Twenty Years Later",...

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

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.