João Moreira Salles Movies

Sidarta Ribeiro, a Brazilian neuroscientist, explores how dreams and other forms of access to the unconscious can transform human experience. In his...

João Moreira Salles' "Nelson Freire" is a film-documentary about the great Brazilian pianist, who is certainly among the five great pianists...

A touching documentary about artist Franz Krajcberg who moved from his home country to Brazil and started a life of environment activist.

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

Tribute to the Carioca poet Ana Cristina Cesar, with quotes from Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Czeslaw Milosz, T. S. Eliot, Armando Freitas...

Documentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for...

The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate...

Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso reflects on his imprisonment in 1968, during the military dictatorship.

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand...

In 1979 and 1980, workers in São Paulo’s metallurgical industry organized a series of strikes that changed the face of union politics in...