Grande Otelo Movies

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one...

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

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...

Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).

Three friends meeting after the absence of one of them for 15 years out of the country. This sudden gathering give them the opportunity to examine the...

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the...

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-fi...

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck", a...

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro....

A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.

In Buenos Aires, Frederico hides in a ship going to Rio de Janeiro to travel for free. But Azulão, the cook, finds him and blackmails him into working...

Movie producer Cecílio B. de Milho is intent on filming an epic about Helen of Troy, while some of the crew would rather turn it into a musical comedy...

"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is...

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from s...