Joel Barcellos Movies

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...

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food...

Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent...

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

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...

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair...

The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.

An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of...

A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.

Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way...

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.

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums,...

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

In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious...