Eduardo Coutinho Movies

Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.

Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses,...

In the late 1970s, the labor movement began to gain strength. In 1988, the workers of the National Steel Company (CSN) in the city of Volta Redonda...

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

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during...

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the...

Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.

A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil's Northeast.

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by...

Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly...

In January 2013, Eduardo Coutinho back to Pernambuco to rediscover two of the characters in "Twenty Years Later" (1984): Cicero and João...

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city...

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands...

Produced for Globo Repórter, a documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about the master Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari.

The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of...

A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get...