Jorge Coutinho Movies

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

A Brazilian musical comedy

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

A Brazilian production that portrays a journey of struggle, faith, hope and transformation through powerful life experiences.

Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the...

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the...

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the...

Hit man does his part in a deal, but doesn't get the money he was promised. For the treason, he decides to eliminate them all.

During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo...

The life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia.