Raul Cortez Movies

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

The story of André, the rebel runaway son from a dominant Lebanese-Brazilian family who returns to the nest after a few years.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Selton Mello

Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Fernanda Montenegro

In the small town of Taperoá João Grilo and confusion Chicó live setting, addressing a sacristan and a humble baker. Everyone...

Genre: Family

Cast: Renato Aragão

After their relative and associate runs way, the Naves brothers inform the police of the incident, who end up arresting them under the accusation of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anselmo Duarte

In the Brazilian countryside, poor sharecroppers join a messianic group led by Joaquim, who believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Gaining...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raul Cortez

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabella Cerqueira Campos

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luiz Sérgio Person

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eliana Araujo

A mechanic who wants to become a race car pilot has his great opportunity when he has to take the place of another pilot who had suffered an accident.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Roberto Carlos

In São Paulo, a businessman wants to rehabilitate street children, called "trombinhas", through a social project. After being discouraged by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pelé

Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Miguel Falabella

Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Anecy Rocha

An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raul Cortez

Genre: Drama

Cast: Altair Lima

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Cast: Raul Cortez

Erotic comedy in two segments: in the first, a candidate running for mayor of a small town pays a visit to the most coveted woman in town, just to...

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Cast: Raul Cortez

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronnie Von

Three children, Cosmic, Luna and Maninho, live in a futuristic world, where lives are totally programmed. One night, while trying to get points to...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Aleph Naldi

Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raul Cortez

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ana Beatriz Nogueira

An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raul Cortez

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Coyote

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Flávio Migliaccio

The relationship among three friendly couples turns upside down when two of the men get a job on TV. Their girlfriends leave them, looking for more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

Upon arriving at the building where he works, Pedro finds the janitor, Hilário Garcia, dead inside one of the elevators. Inspector Canovas, in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raul Cortez

Adaptation of the successful Brazilian TV series "Beto Rockefeller". Beto is a cunning poor man who pretends to be rich, using his congeniality and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luis Gustavo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raul Cortez

Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tônia Carrero

The story of Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the famed Brazilian sculptor and architect born in the 17th century who became known as "Aleijadinho".

Genre: History

Cast: Geraldo del Rey

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louise Cardoso

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo Guarnieri

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri