Cristina Amaral Movies

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert.

Disagreements, incommunicability between people. What is said is not heard, what is heard is not understood. Everything is ambiguous. What appears to...

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide,...

A storyteller in Brasilia entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives.

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political...

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna....

Dadinho, an old samba composer, is taken by his granddaughter to his brother’s funeral, composer from a rival samba school. Along this path a...

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six...

A free flight of memory, instinct, expressions and sensations. The unrevealed city is seen through the eyes of caged animals.

In a hospital that struggles not to close its doors, two children discover their first love.

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her...

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

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never...