Paulo José Movies

The story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after...

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of...

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

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

Marina is in her late thirties and has recently become a widow. After finding an old photo album from her fifteenth birthday, she becomes curious...

The delicate process of rebuilding the memory and identity of the Guatós Indians, currently scattered throughout the Pantanal region.

The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers...

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers...

The story of a large family in which each member develops a strange occupation.

David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis,...

The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts...

When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a...

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

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