Mário Carneiro Movies

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of...

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto...

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying....

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

Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and...

A failed artist searching strength to move ahead. By a young lady, who might be his daughter, he develops a project that changes his destiny.

In the city of Porto das Caixas, a woman seeks help from multiple lovers to murder her dirty husband. Desperate to free herself, she decides to put...

Nina, a typical woman of the big city, marries a powerful farmer and goes to live in the countryside of Minas Gerais. There, however, she is faced...

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the...

Historical film that rescues the memory of the early Brazilian film festivals through photos, films, testimonials, and posters.

Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

Documentary about the great Brazilian photographers who helped develop Brazilian cinema and their opinions on their work, making movies in Brazil and...

A reflection on books and culture through testimonies and images from the Rio de Janeiro's National Library. In this work commissioned by the...