Cristina Amaral Movies

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

Dadinho, an old samba composer, is taken by his granddaughter to his brother’s funeral, composer from a rival samba school. Along this path a...

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The...

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna....

Is the end of the school year, the heat comes, and with it regular power cuts in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio have...

In a hospital that struggles not to close its doors, two children discover their first love.

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers.

Veronica Oliveira - Faxina Boa is a unique cleaning professional in São Paulo. Through a drift in Vila Buarque, the neighborhood where she was...

Disagreements, incommunicability between people. What is said is not heard, what is heard is not understood. Everything is ambiguous. What appears to...

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

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never...

A reflection on books and culture through testimonies and images from the Rio de Janeiro's National Library. In this work commissioned by the...

On a same night, five people from a small country town have the same nightmare. Upon the arrival of a pilgrim, the village is taken off its mediocre...

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political...

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the...

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo.