Movies: Walter Carvalho

  • 2003
    Carandiru

    Carandiru (2003)

    Carandiru

    7.52003HD

    When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paul...

    Carandiru
  • 1998
    Central Station

    Central Station (1998)

    Central Station

    8.11998HD

    An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew....

    Central Station
  • 2001
    Behind the Sun

    Behind the Sun (2001)

    Behind the Sun

    7.32001HD

    Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has...

    Behind the Sun
  • 2002
    Madame Satã

    Madame Satã (2002)

    Madame Satã

    6.92002HD

    A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos San...

    Madame Satã
  • 2006
    Bog of Beasts

    Bog of Beasts (2006)

    Bog of Beasts

    5.72006HD

    A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money....

    Bog of Beasts
  • 2004
    Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop

    Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004)

    Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop

    7.12004HD

    Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the h...

    Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop
  • 2017
    The Movie of My Life

    The Movie of My Life (2017)

    The Movie of My Life

    7.42017HD

    The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his fath...

    The Movie of My Life
  • 2006
    Love for Sale

    Love for Sale (2006)

    Love for Sale

    7.42006HD

    In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young s...

    Love for Sale
  • 2001
    Janela da Alma

    Janela da Alma (2001)

    Janela da Alma

    6.92001HD

    Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link...

    Janela da Alma
  • 1996
    Foreign Land

    Foreign Land (1996)

    Foreign Land

    7.11996HD

    During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring....

    Foreign Land
  • 2009
    Stolen Dreams

    Stolen Dreams (2009)

    Stolen Dreams

    5.82009HD

    Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consu...

    Stolen Dreams
  • 2001
    To the Left of the Father

    To the Left of the Father (2001)

    To the Left of the Father

    7.12001HD

    The story of André, the rebel runaway son from a dominant Lebanese-Brazilian family who returns to the nest after a few years....

    To the Left of the Father
  • 2002
    Mango Yellow

    Mango Yellow (2002)

    Mango Yellow

    6.62002HD

    The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

    Mango Yellow
  • 2012
    Rat Fever

    Rat Fever (2012)

    Rat Fever

    6.42012HD

    Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our c...

    Rat Fever
  • 2012
    Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio

    Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio (2012)

    Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio

    7.52012HD

    As the world boiled in the rush of Easy Rider bikes, in the frenetic pace of Elvis Presley, in Beatniks poets, in the explosion of counterculture, a boy from Bahia gave birth to Rock in Brazil. A runaway flying saucer that abducted the hearts and min...

    Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio
  • 2011
    Heleno

    Heleno (2011)

    Heleno

    6.32011HD

    José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de Freit...

    Heleno
  • 2014
    Getulio

    Getulio (2014)

    Getulio

    6.82014HD

    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 crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, 1954,...

    Getulio
  • 2001
    Possible Loves

    Possible Loves (2001)

    Possible Loves

    5.82001HD

    Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an e...

    Possible Loves
  • 2007
    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra (2007)

    Cleopatra

    5.22007HD

    The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization....

    Cleopatra
  • 2006
    The Machine

    The Machine (2006)

    The Machine

    5.92006HD

    In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world...

    The Machine