Mário Carneiro Movies

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

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the...

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

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...

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

After a man dies under mysterious circumstances, his girlfriend and his gay lover deal with his death in different ways.

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

A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the...

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