Eduardo Escorel Movies

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

In 2007, while filming the documentary O Tempo e o Lugar, Genivaldo Vieira da Silva, known as Geno, a former activist with the Pastoral Land...

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old...

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to...

Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três...

In the island of Paquetá, professor investigates the genital vocation of vegetables and fruits, maintaining sexual relations with a...

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife,...

A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute.

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in...

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the...

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...

A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.

Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião,...

The documentary follows the campaign of 6 candidates to the municipal legislative council of the city of Rio de Janeiro (population of approximately...

Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor, Chico Anysio: O Torneio (The Tournament), A Boca (The Mouth), O Filminho (The Short Film), A...

In New York City, an illegal immigrant gets into trouble because of his relationship with a self-destructive prostitute.

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt...

For the Suruí, an indigenous people in western Brazil, there was a lot at stake in the 2022 presidential elections. Under incumbent President...

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia...