Joel Barcellos Movies

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

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

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food...

Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way...

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

In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious...

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília....

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

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

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

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties...

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

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

Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent...

Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums,...

The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.

Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.