Luiz Paulino dos Santos Movies

Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial...

In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé...

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they...

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

On a same night, five people from a small country town have the same nightmare. Upon the arrival of a pilgrim, the village is taken off its mediocre...

Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape....

Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his...

30 years ago, director Luiz Paulino dos Santos made a poetical register of the Zoró indians. He comes back to show it to them and finds a...

Um Dia na Rampa (1960), by Luiz Paulino dos Santos, focuses on a geographic space in the city of Salvador and tries to explain it from the social...