Cinematography: José Medeiros

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by José Medeiros. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Details of a Duel

1988 · Movie · 97 min. · Colombia

Direction Sergio Cabrera

Cast Frank Ramírez · Humberto Dorado · Florina Lemaitre · Vicky Hernández

Plot The teacher and the butcher of a small town in the tropical Andes, are both in love with the same woman (Miriam). They decide to duel for her. Everyone in...

6.6

50 votes

6.6

50 votes

Summer Showers

1978 · Movie · 93 min. · Brazil

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Joffre Soares · Miriam Pires · Cristina Aché · Roberto Bonfim

Plot 70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

Not rated

Not rated

A Public Opinion

1967 · Documentary · 65 min. · Brazil

Direction Arnaldo Jabor

Cast Fernando Garcia

Plot Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the sixties, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and the following dictatorship....

Not rated

Not rated

The Deceased

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction León Hirszman

Cast Fernanda Montenegro · Paulo Gracindo · Ivan Cândido · Nelson Xavier

Plot A woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand.

Not rated

Not rated

Nem Tudo é Verdade

1986 · Movie · 95 min. · Brazil

Direction Rogério Sganzerla

Cast Arrigo Barnabé · Grande Otélo · Helena Ignez · Nina de Pádua

Plot A fictional account of Orson Welles' real passage to Brazil where he was supposed to film a cultural film called "It's All True", to present a positive image of Brazilian...

Not rated

Not rated

Memórias do Cárcere

1984 · Movie · 185 min. · Brazil

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Carlos Vereza · Glória Pires · Nildo Parente · José Dumont

Plot Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

Not rated

Not rated

Aventuras com Tio Maneco

1971 · Movie · 95 min. · Brazil

Direction Flávio Migliaccio

Cast Flávio Migliaccio · Odete Lara · Walter Forster · Rodolfo Arena

Plot An uncle travels with his three nephews once a year, during the holidays, looking for adventure.

Not rated

Not rated

The Story of Fausta

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction Bruno Barreto

Cast Betty Faria · Daniel Filho · Brandão Filho · Cristina Pereira

Plot Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband,...

Not rated

Not rated

Voyage to the End of the World

1968 · Movie · 96 min. · Brazil

Direction Fernando Cony Campos

Cast Fábio Porchat · Joffre Soares · Vera Vianna · Annik Malvil

Plot During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.

Not rated

Not rated

Xica da Silva

1976 · Movie · 107 min. · Brazil

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Zezé Motta · Walmor Chagas · Altair Lima · Elke Maravilha

Plot The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributs" in order to get power.

Not rated

Not rated

Pra Quem Fica, Tchau

1971 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction Reginaldo Faria

Cast Reginaldo Faria · Stepan Nercessian · Rosana Tapajós · Flávio Migliaccio

Plot Pra Quem Fica, Tchau tells the story of a teenager from the interior who comes to Rio, financed by an uncle, and goes to live with a womanizer cousin.

Not rated

Not rated

Not rated

Jubiabá

1986 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Not rated

Not rated

O Fabuloso Fittipaldi

1973 · Documentary · 99 min. · Brazil

Direction Héctor Babenco · Roberto Farias

Cast Emerson Fittipaldi · Juse Fittipaldi · Wilson Fittipaldi · Francisco Rosa

Plot About the Brazilian formula one racing driver Emerson Fittipaldi at the height of his popularity and the beginning of his career.

Not rated

Not rated

Faustão

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Cast Eliezer Gomes · Jorge Gomes · Anecy Rocha · Gracinda Freire

Plot A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique Pereira, son of Colonel Pereira, is wounded...

Not rated

Not rated

The Devil Queen

1974 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Antonio Carlos da Fontoura

Cast Milton Gonçalves · Odete Lara · Stepan Nercessian · Nelson Xavier

Plot In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the homosexual drug dealer lord Rainha Diaba (Milton Gonçalves) decides to find a scapegoat to save his lover from the jail for traffic with students....

Not rated

Not rated