Carlos Diegues Movies

This documentary celebrates Cadu Barcellos, a Black filmmaker from the Maré favela complex. In defiance of erasure, the film moves beyond...

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support...

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.

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...

Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.

A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian...

Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.

Filmmaker Roberto Farias' passion for cinema is revealed by his daughter Marise Farias through an intimate look, from childhood to his political,...

The documentary VINTE - RioFilme, 20 anos de cinema brasileiro is a celebration of these two decades of Brazilian cinema, revealing the role of...

Three childhood friends plan meeting for a day in order to reassert their friendships and fight for their differences. One of them is involved with...

Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the...

After learning that China has left the jail and is seeking revenge, Romeo needs to get money to leave the country as soon as possible. Soon, Toin,...

Arroz, Feijão e Cinema is a record of the transformative impacts that a popular movie theater, Ponto Cine, brought to the lives of the...

The quartet of coup plotters is back, but before they need to resolve some minor internal disagreements, since Marco has struck a blow at his best...

The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The...

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

Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He...

Brasília, 1986. Helena has barely settled in with her family in Brazil's futuristic capital when her husband leaves on a business trip....

João Carlos Martins was a child with serious health problems. Because of this, he had a reclusive childhood. But one day, the piano came into...

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...