Joel Barcellos Movies

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his...

Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the...

Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for...

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

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for...

In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his...

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.

The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently...

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...

A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the...

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer,...

The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After...

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

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