Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo de Oliveira Coutinho OMC (São Paulo, May 11, 1933 — Rio de Janeiro, February 2, 2014) was a Brazilian filmmaker and journalist. He is considered by many to be the greatest documentary filmmaker in the history of Brazilian cinema. His brand was to make films that privileged the stories of ordinary people.[2][4][5] His masterpiece is Cabra Marcado para Morrer, which marked his career as Brazil's leading documentary filmmaker. Among other notable works of his career are the documentaries Santo Forte, Edifício Master, Peões, Jogo de Cena and As Canções.
Madame Satã
as JuizA story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture,...
Movie pageTwenty Years Later
as HimselfEduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964,...
Movie pageMaster, a Building in Copacabana
as Interviewer"Master" is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro's...
Movie pageCapturing Reality
as SelfFrom cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like...
Movie pageThe Girl from Ipanema
as uncreditedChronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood...
Movie pageCrítico
as SelfSeventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the...
Movie pageCandango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self (archive footage)In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's...
Movie pageMemórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self (archive footage)Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian...
Movie page1964: 40 Years After
as uncreditedDocumentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart,...
Movie pageThe Method
as SelfThe Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the...
Movie pageThe Memory Thread
as Himself (Voice)A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate...
Movie pageThe Mighty Spirit
as Self (Interviewer)An overview of brazilian spirituality and religions.
Movie pageCâncer
as uncreditedThis film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among...
Movie pageBabilônia 2000
as SelfDocumentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve...
Movie pageLast Conversations
as SelfMade from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his...
Movie pageA Treat of Coutinho
as SelfWould have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter...
Movie pageSete Visitas
as SelfHow much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers....
Movie pageDib
as SelfDocumentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib...
Movie pageCoutinho.doc - Apartamento 608
as uncreditedThe audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary,...
Movie pageUma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira
as SelfShort documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.
Movie pageMovie Theaters of Rio
as SelfThe story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured...
Movie pageEduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro
as HimselfA conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.
Movie pageCoutinho Reporter
as hinselfIn an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for...
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