Joel Barcellos Movies

Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the...

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to...

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his...

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the...

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by...

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her...

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.

A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the...

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently...

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film...

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by...

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

Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings...

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal...

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for...