Othon Bastos Movies

Last ride of an old beggar woman around the old São Luís city revealing the helplessness of both under the sign of an unjust time.

Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying....

Priest Marcelo Rossi visits a juvenile correction center, and gives Paulo, one of the interns, a Bible. He starts reading the story of St. Paul.

The ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party and the powerful Coronel Gaudêncio, a...

The life and death of Colonel Orestes, a decadent coffee farmer, spanning three generations between despair, hallucinations, and the help of three...

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the...

Extras from the remastered DVD of the film São Bernardo by Leon Hirszman. The process of restoring the film, with testimonials from actors and...

A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.

Locked up for decades in a maximum security prison, an old man tries to revive his glory days as a magician, putting into practice a perfect - but...

Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and...

A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.

The murder of a wealthy couple shocks public opinion, with the eldest son accused of killing his parents. Condemned beforehand by the press, he needs...

In 1910, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, a man is expelled from his own land by the ruthless colonel who owns the sugar mill. He asks some...

A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.

São Paulo, May 1978. Three slates compete for the leadership of the Metalworkers' Union of São Paulo, the largest in Latin America,...