Domingos de Oliveira Movies

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to...

Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the...

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a...

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...

On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du...

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the...

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is...

The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos...

Thales, a successful businessman, is in crisis with his profession. He is married to the rich and spoiled Renata, and works with her father, the...

Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their...

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...

In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana....

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of...

Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is...

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...

A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.

Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's...