Movies: Eduardo Coutinho

  • 1976
    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)

    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

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    After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life....

    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
  • 2002
    Madame Satã

    Madame Satã (2002)

    Madame Satã

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    A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos San...

    Madame Satã
  • 1984
    Twenty Years Later

    Twenty Years Later (1984)

    Twenty Years Later

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    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 the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocu...

    Twenty Years Later
  • 1967
    The Girl from Ipanema

    The Girl from Ipanema (1967)

    The Girl from Ipanema

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    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 and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's ext...

    The Girl from Ipanema
  • 2008
    Crítico

    Crítico (2008)

    Crítico

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    Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States ...

    Crítico
  • 2007
    Playing

    Playing (2007)

    Playing

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    Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation....

    Playing
  • 2002
    Master, a Building in Copacabana

    Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002)

    Master, a Building in Copacabana

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    "Master" is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro's neighborhood for nightlife. Over the course of four weeks in 2001, Eduardo Coutinho's film crew rented one of the 276 apartments and used it as home base to make a ...

    Master, a Building in Copacabana
  • 2020
    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

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    In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
  • 2008
    Capturing Reality

    Capturing Reality (2008)

    Capturing Reality

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    From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the...

    Capturing Reality
  • 2010
    A Day In The Life

    A Day In The Life (2010)

    A Day In The Life

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    The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter....

    A Day In The Life
  • 1967
    The ABC of Love

    The ABC of Love (1967)

    The ABC of Love

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    Film that includes three short films by different authors about love: "O pacto" by Eduardo Coutinho, "Terrible Night" by Rodolfo Kuhn, and "Magic World" by Helvio Soto....

    The ABC of Love
  • 2000
    Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion

    Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)

    Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion

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    The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil....

    Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
  • 1965
    The Deceased

    The Deceased (1965)

    The Deceased

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    After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde....

    The Deceased
  • 2019
    Memórias do Grupo Opinião

    Memórias do Grupo Opinião (2019)

    Memórias do Grupo Opinião

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    Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now f...

    Memórias do Grupo Opinião
  • 1991
    The Memory Thread

    The Memory Thread (1991)

    The Memory Thread

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    A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos....

    The Memory Thread
  • 1968
    The Man Who Bought the World

    The Man Who Bought the World (1968)

    The Man Who Bought the World

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    In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape....

    The Man Who Bought the World
  • 2004
    1964: 40 Years After

    1964: 40 Years After (2004)

    1964: 40 Years After

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    Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the military dictatorship in Brazil. Around 40 characters reveal behind the scenes and comment in detail on th...

    1964: 40 Years After
  • 1962
    Cinco Vezes Favela

    Cinco Vezes Favela (1962)

    Cinco Vezes Favela

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

    Cinco Vezes Favela
  • 2006
    O Fim e o Princípio

    O Fim e o Princípio (2006)

    O Fim e o Princípio

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    A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands in search of people with stories to tell. In the town of São João do Rio Peixe, they discover the Ar...

    O Fim e o Princípio
  • 2011
    Songs

    Songs (2011)

    Songs

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    Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the director engages his subjects in conversation about the song they picked. The end product is deeply per...

    Songs