Movies: João Moreira Salles

  • 2007
    Playing

    Playing (2007)

    Playing

    8.32007HD

    Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation....

    Playing
  • 2008
    Crítico

    Crítico (2008)

    Crítico

    7.92008HD

    Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States ...

    Crítico
  • 2002
    Master, a Building in Copacabana

    Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002)

    Master, a Building in Copacabana

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    "Master" is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro's neighborhood for nightlife. Over the course of four weeks in 2001, Eduardo Coutinho's film crew rented one of the 276 apartments and used it as home base to make a ...

    Master, a Building in Copacabana
  • 2011
    Songs

    Songs (2011)

    Songs

    7.22011HD

    Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the director engages his subjects in conversation about the song they picked. The end product is deeply per...

    Songs
  • 2007
    Santiago

    Santiago (2007)

    Santiago

    7.62007HD

    Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the u...

    Santiago
  • 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
  • 2004
    Intermissions

    Intermissions (2004)

    Intermissions

    7.42004HD

    Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, L...

    Intermissions
  • 2017
    In the Intense Now

    In the Intense Now (2017)

    In the Intense Now

    7.82017HD

    A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring....

    In the Intense Now
  • 1987
    China, o Império do Centro

    China, o Império do Centro (1987)

    China, o Império do Centro

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    A portrait of conteporary China from Tai-chi-chuan to chinese arts....

    China, o Império do Centro
  • 2010
    A Night in 67

    A Night in 67 (2010)

    A Night in 67

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    In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the springboard for the career of many a big-name stars, such as C...

    A Night in 67
  • 1989
    Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy

    Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy (1989)

    Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy

    01989HD

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

    Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
  • 2003
    Viva Sapato!

    Viva Sapato! (2003)

    Viva Sapato!

    4.72003HD

    A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. Wh...

    Viva Sapato!
  • 2006
    O Fim e o Princípio

    O Fim e o Princípio (2006)

    O Fim e o Princípio

    4.62006HD

    A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands in search of people with stories to tell. In the town of São João do Rio Peixe, they discover the Ar...

    O Fim e o Princípio
  • 2004
    Metalworkers

    Metalworkers (2004)

    Metalworkers

    6.72004HD

    In 1979 and 1980, workers in São Paulo’s metallurgical industry organized a series of strikes that changed the face of union politics in Brazil. In the process, they established the groundwork for Brazil’s Worker’s Party and brought to the national s...

    Metalworkers
  • 2024
    New World

    New World (2024)

    New World

    72024HD

    Conceição and Presto, an interracial couple, ask Presto's brother for his signature as a guarantor of the financial request supposed to assure them an apartment in Leblon, the whitest neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The process proves to be much hard...

    New World
  • 2015
    Last Conversations

    Last Conversations (2015)

    Last Conversations

    7.52015HD

    Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho’s longtime partner, fi...

    Last Conversations
  • 2020
    Narcissus Off Duty

    Narcissus Off Duty (2020)

    Narcissus Off Duty

    6.92020HD

    Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso reflects on his imprisonment in 1968, during the military dictatorship....

    Narcissus Off Duty
  • 1999
    Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra

    Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra (1999)

    Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra

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    A resident of the Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Adão Xalebaradã is the composer of more than 500 songs and has never been recorded in Brazil....

    Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
  • 2009
    Moscow

    Moscow (2009)

    Moscow

    5.72009HD

    Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during rehearsals for the Galpão Theater Company’s performance of Chekov’s The Three Sisters. As he shoots scenes f...

    Moscow
  • 1998
    Futebol

    Futebol (1998)

    Futebol

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    Futebol