Movies: Walter Carvalho

  • 2015
    About Cinema

    About Cinema (2015)

    About Cinema

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    An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken...

    About Cinema
  • 2011
    The Absence that Moves Us

    The Absence that Moves Us (2011)

    The Absence that Moves Us

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    Five actors meet in a house on Christmas Eve to make a movie. While waiting to have dinner with someone they don't know or if they're actually going to show up, they reveal secrets and look back on their lives. From this encounter, joys, frustrations...

    The Absence that Moves Us
  • 2018
    The Asphalt Kiss

    The Asphalt Kiss (2018)

    The Asphalt Kiss

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    When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed...

    The Asphalt Kiss
  • 1975
    Chinese Viola

    Chinese Viola (1975)

    Chinese Viola

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    The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and improvised text, we discover a little manifesto to the Brazilian experimental cinema. Also called "Belair's ...

    Chinese Viola
  • 1999
    News from a Personal War

    News from a Personal War (1999)

    News from a Personal War

    7.81999HD

    Documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily war that knows no winners....

    News from a Personal War
  • 1998
    Midnight

    Midnight (1998)

    Midnight

    5.81998HD

    On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone....

    Midnight
  • 2001
    Favorite Son

    Favorite Son (2001)

    Favorite Son

    4.32001HD

    Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological mother for a transplant. She is reluctantly helped by a Detective....

    Favorite Son
  • 1980
    A, B, C, Brasil

    A, B, C, Brasil (1980)

    A, B, C, Brasil

    6.31980HD

    Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT...

    A, B, C, Brasil
  • 2017
    Uma Noite em Sampa

    Uma Noite em Sampa (2017)

    Uma Noite em Sampa

    6.22017HD

    People who moved from São Paulo, a large city, to the countryside, come back to see a play. Later, they learn the driver of their chartered bus has disappeared. Now, on the street, at night, they have to face themselves....

    Uma Noite em Sampa
  • 1989
    How Nice to See You Alive

    How Nice to See You Alive (1989)

    How Nice to See You Alive

    6.91989HD

    Four years after a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systematic practice. Using a mix of fiction and documentary this extraordinary film is a searing record of personal memo...

    How Nice to See You Alive
  • 1990
    O Círculo de Fogo

    O Círculo de Fogo (1990)

    O Círculo de Fogo

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    O Círculo de Fogo
  • 1974
    Vila Boa de Goyaz

    Vila Boa de Goyaz (1974)

    Vila Boa de Goyaz

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    Oral memory, artists from the region and expressions of popular culture tell stories about Vila Boa, in Goiás, and its transformations over time....

    Vila Boa de Goyaz
  • 1985
    Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta

    Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta (1985)

    Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta

    5.91985HD

    In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old divorcee. Upon learning of the relationship, Eliane's parents forbid her to meet her lover....

    Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta
  • 2008
    The Man Who Bottled Clouds

    The Man Who Bottled Clouds (2008)

    The Man Who Bottled Clouds

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    A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement i...

    The Man Who Bottled Clouds
  • 2007
    The Ballroom

    The Ballroom (2007)

    The Ballroom

    5.92007HD

    An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and de...

    The Ballroom
  • 2023
    Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!

    Peréio, Eu Te Odeio! (2023)

    Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!

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    23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him...

    Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
  • 2006
    Moacir Art Brut

    Moacir Art Brut (2006)

    Moacir Art Brut

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    Facing many problems, such as impaired hearing and speaking, abnormal bone formation and poverty, Brazilian black naïve artist Moacir lives in the National Park of Chapada dos Veadeiros, aloof and oblivious of outside world, and was discovered by dir...

    Moacir Art Brut
  • 1991
    Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali

    Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali (1991)

    Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali

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    Creative documentary on multi-faceted Brazilian musician Radames Gnattali...

    Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali
  • 1975
    A Pedra da Riqueza

    A Pedra da Riqueza (1975)

    A Pedra da Riqueza

    5.51975HD

    The contrast in the extremely rudimentary form of xelite mining and the use of tungsten, obtained from xelite, in the most complex instruments of nuclear technology....

    A Pedra da Riqueza
  • 1982
    A Missa do Galo

    A Missa do Galo (1982)

    A Missa do Galo

    5.81982HD

    It's Christmas Eve and an aunt and her nephew have to deal with their platonic relationship....

    A Missa do Galo