João Bethencourt Movies

Arne Sucksdorff’s drama follows four homeless children—Jorginho, Rico, Lici, and Paulinho—struggling to survive in the Rio de...

In Minas Gerais, the powerful "colonel" Alexandrão gets married with the young and virgin Cristina and promotes a huge wedding party in his...

The news that frames the two days in which the whole story takes place is bad. At first glance, these don't seem like the happiest two days. And yet,...

A wife dissatisfied with her husband's vagrancy asks her father, who lives in Paraíba, for help. He then sends two henchmen to Rio to make his...

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the...

A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.

A professional hitman returns to Brazil and is hired to eliminate an Argentine Delegate in a Rio de Janeiro convention. Inspector José da...

All the magic of the theatre is revealed to viewers as they follow the challenges involved in the various stages of putting on a play – from...