Eduardo Coutinho Movies

A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique...

The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century.

Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.

Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.

The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter.

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses,...

A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil's Northeast.

In the late 1970s, the labor movement began to gain strength. In 1988, the workers of the National Steel Company (CSN) in the city of Volta Redonda...

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly...

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands...

A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.

The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of...

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by...

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the...

Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.

Produced for Globo Repórter, a documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about the master Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari.

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

In January 2013, Eduardo Coutinho back to Pernambuco to rediscover two of the characters in "Twenty Years Later" (1984): Cicero and João...