João Batista de Andrade Movies

A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man...

The film addresses the problem of occupational accidents in Brazil, based on the lack of safety in quarries where workers are constantly victimized...

An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his...

A storyteller in Brasilia entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives.

Mateus, his wife Antônia, their three kids and his brother Pedro opened a grocery/bar in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1959, called "Armazém...

Vicente, a tax collector, is sent to a distant region to defy the dominion of Melo, a powerful landowner. When Melo's henchmen burn down the...

The central character is a talented sculptor of saints from the historic city of Pirenópolis, Goiás. Praised, controversial, he opens...

Documentary short focusing on the people of a poor São Paulo neighborhood, whose lives are made difficult by a large hole on the ground that...

The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of...

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who...

A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle...

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders...

A brief tribute to Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari relating to his humble beginnings as a citizen born in the town of Brodósqui,...

A documentary of profound irony about the bourgeois dream of establishing a film industry in Brazil in the 1930s. The project in question, the...