Raul Cortez Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

Intrigues and mystery involve the murder of Vitor, a member of an important family, just when he was trying to save his economic empire from...

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

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

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

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

Eugênio falls in love for Margarida, a poor girl who lives in his parents' farm. In order to avoid their love affair, the parents send him to a...

In 1940s São Paulo, Pedro’s tasked to retrieve his estranged brother André. André’s departure stems from a...