João Batista de Andrade Filmes

A documentary about the 1979 workers strike.

Documentary wich tries to capture the iconoclastic spirit of the 1922 Week of Modern Art, to tell about the beginning of cinema made in the city of...

The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Documentary highlights the role of the organizers of...

An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his...

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own...

Vicente, a tax collector, is sent to a distant region to defy the dominion of Melo, a powerful landowner. When Melo's henchmen burn down the...

Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is...

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

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil,...

A brief tribute to Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari relating to his humble beginnings as a citizen born in the town of Brodósqui,...

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders...

The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of...

A documentary of profound irony about the bourgeois dream of establishing a film industry in Brazil in the 1930s. The project in question, the...

The practices of football in Brazil and the issues surrounding the sport. Press, players as a commodity, the popular passion, the practice on the...

A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle...

Director João Batista de Andrade was filming a documentary about migrants coming from Northeast Brazil to São Paulo in search of a...