Movies: Murilo Salles

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach....

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and,...

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter....

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life....

An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth....

Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter argument. Camila's ambition is to become a writer, and she posts regularly on her blog, entitled "Camila J...

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The story of the relationship between Military Police commander Domingos Macedo and his children over three decades. Raised in a toxic family environment, the children struggle to survive the rigid rule of a man forged by the brutality of the Militar...

A series foccusing the creative process of 4 young Brazilian artists: Carlinhos Brown (music), Tunga (painter), Deborah Colker (choreographer)and Alexandre Herchcovitch (fashion designer) through the eyes of director Murilo Salles....

Paulo (Pedro Brício), a publicist of Rio de Janeiro, moves to Brasília (capital of Brazil) to be the manager of the public image of a senator who wants reelection. Paulo is accompanied by his wife, Cris (Cintia Rosa), a journalist with whom he has a ...

The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's sometimes fills in for Tati's father, giving the girl temporary happiness....

A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim....

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After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness....

Short documentary film offering a rare portrait on legendary Brazilian actor Grande Otelo, recorded at his own family home....

The agitprop film Estas são as armas by Murilo Salles was edited together from archival images and formed one of the first works to be produced by the newly founded film institute in Maputo....

During the military dictatorship, a political militant takes his son out of the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot ...

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade....

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