Movies: Luiz Carlos Barreto

  • 1997
    Four Days in September

    Four Days in September (1997)

    Four Days in September

    7.51997HD

    Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ...

    Four Days in September
  • 1980
    Bye Bye Brazil

    Bye Bye Brazil (1980)

    Bye Bye Brazil

    6.91980HD

    The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come alon...

    Bye Bye Brazil
  • 1969
    Antonio das Mortes

    Antonio das Mortes (1969)

    Antonio das Mortes

    6.91969HD

    A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the...

    Antonio das Mortes
  • 1976
    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)

    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

    6.81976HD

    After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life....

    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
  • 1967
    Entranced Earth

    Entranced Earth (1967)

    Entranced Earth

    7.31967HD

    Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a ...

    Entranced Earth
  • 1978
    Lady on the Bus

    Lady on the Bus (1978)

    Lady on the Bus

    5.51978HD

    Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro....

    Lady on the Bus
  • 2000
    Bossa Nova

    Bossa Nova (2000)

    Bossa Nova

    5.42000HD

    After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the hot backdrop of Rio de Janeiro....

    Bossa Nova
  • 2008
    Last Stop 174

    Last Stop 174 (2008)

    Last Stop 174

    7.22008HD

    Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174....

    Last Stop 174
  • 1963
    Barren Lives

    Barren Lives (1963)

    Barren Lives

    7.41963HD

    In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny....

    Barren Lives
  • 1998
    Bela Donna

    Bela Donna (1998)

    Bela Donna

    51998HD

    American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals of...

    Bela Donna
  • 2016
    Cinema Novo

    Cinema Novo (2016)

    Cinema Novo

    6.72016HD

    A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitud...

    Cinema Novo
  • 2020
    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    52020HD

    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 of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
  • 1981
    The Kiss

    The Kiss (1981)

    The Kiss

    7.11981HD

    When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and,...

    The Kiss
  • 1967
    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967)

    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

    7.51967HD

    Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 19...

    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
  • 2016
    Pitanga

    Pitanga (2016)

    Pitanga

    5.62016HD

    This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues ...

    Pitanga
  • 2008
    Milagrez

    Milagrez (2008)

    Milagrez

    02008HD

    Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film....

    Milagrez
  • 1982
    Menino do Rio

    Menino do Rio (1982)

    Menino do Rio

    6.31982HD

    Romantic adventures of a group of Rio de Janeiro teenagers and surfers....

    Menino do Rio
  • 1995
    The Quartet

    The Quartet (1995)

    The Quartet

    6.31995HD

    The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny,...

    The Quartet
  • 1984
    Memories of Prison

    Memories of Prison (1984)

    Memories of Prison

    6.91984HD

    In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners....

    Memories of Prison
  • 2019
    Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

    Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos (2019)

    Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

    102019HD

    This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material....

    Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos