Othon Bastos Movies

This biopic documents the life and work of one of Brazil’s most prolific artists: Milton Gonçalves. This actor and director are credited...

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution,...

Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His...

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867...

The principal character in Helvécio Ratton's delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist...

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...

Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and...

From the clay used to make tiles or clay clay, an image of Lampião, the king of Cangaço, begins to emerge through the work of...

José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film...

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

São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro he won a scholarship to study in...

Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to...

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

A young musician of 13 years, a member of the Symphonic Orchestra of Agreste of the small town of Sao Caetano, 150 km from Recife, is kidnapped. The...

Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of...