Joel Barcellos Movies

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

Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old...

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

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.

A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.

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

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

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...

A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.

The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric...

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

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

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

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

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film...