Paulo José Movies

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the...

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...

An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV...

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is...

A tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of...

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of...

Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character,...

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.

A hug movie, for the biggest storyteller in Latin America.

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of...

"The Dead Girl's Feast" narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of...

A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.