Maurice Capovila Movies

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A...

The practices of football in Brazil and the issues surrounding the sport. Press, players as a commodity, the popular passion, the practice on the...

A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the...

University student who works in a bank experiences a personal crisis: he is torn between his ambitions and the temptation to engage in the armed...

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit"...

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train...

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...

A failed artist searching strength to move ahead. By a young lady, who might be his daughter, he develops a project that changes his destiny.

A year in the life of a samba school, from the first rehearsals to the parade on the avenue.

Joel is the director of a musical theater play featuring the songs of Lupicínio Rodrigues. He and his girlfriend, Maria Rosa, star in the...

The first work by documentary master Renato Tapajós, "Vila da Barca" focuses on the daily struggles faced by the people who live on the shanty...

Neglected wife tells husband about mysterious deaths occurred by the influence of Iemanjá, Afro-Brazilian deity, goddess of the waters

In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

The dreams and problems of three friends: Malagueta, an inveterate gambler; Perus, former factory worker who abandoned the assembly line to earn his...

Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums,...