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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. 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.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Eduardo Coutinho
Critic
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the crea...
Madame Satã
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-...
Twenty Years Later
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came th...
Câncer
This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts...
Jogo de Cena
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which ar...
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Bra...
The Girl from Ipanema
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Má...
Capturing Reality
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Wern...
Master, a Building in Copacabana
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: th...
Dib
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered on...
Last Conversations
Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February...
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to...
1964: 40 Years After
Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 196...
The Beggars
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of...
Movie Theaters of Rio
The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the inventi...
The Memory Thread
A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist an...
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at...
Babilônia 2000
Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.
Moscow
Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention...
The Method
The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of r...
Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira
Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.
The Mighty Spirit
An overview of Brazilian spirituality and religions.
Coutinho Reporter
In an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for Globo Repórter o...
Sete Visitas
How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On the other s...
Coutinho.doc - Apartment 608
The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from the resear...
Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro
A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.
A Treat of Coutinho
Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentari...
Inhabiting Time
May's full moon. Six friends. Two poems. One night, 22 years ago.