Movies: Paulo César Peréio

Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. An essay on the oppression and dehumanization of the Brazilian people....

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape....

Brazilian documentary short about the life of Edna — actress of Iracema —....

In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film uses passages supposed to be about her to criticize modern Brazil, the dictatorship period and also a h...

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An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo....

The disaster of the fall of a bridge, followed by the greatest of all disasters: human stupidity....

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Forty-year-old Cláudio is always looking for a romantic relationship. His routine changes when he has to take care of his 12-year-old daughter: women no longer look at him and the conquest tactics have no effect....

In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a prom...

An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature....

The past of a region that grew on the foundations of the faith, through the catechesis of the Jesuits who formed the theocratic kingdom of the Guarani....

The life of the brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont....

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: “a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortur...

French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemian parties during the celebration of carnaval....

A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973....

In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population. They are immigrants from the German region and develop a communitary social model, having the Bible as...

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