Cinematography: César Charlone

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


City of God

2002 · Movie · 130 min. · Brazil

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Plot Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale...

8.4

124K votes

8.4

124K votes

Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

2007 · Documentary · 112 min. · France

Direction Gonzalo Arijon

Plot For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.

7.6

589 votes

7.6

589 votes

Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors (TV)

2009 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Gonzalo Arijon

7.4

55 votes

7.4

55 votes

The Constant Gardener

2005 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fernando Meirelles

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Rachel Weisz · Danny Huston · Hubert Koundé

Plot Ralph Fiennes stars as Kenya-based English diplomat Justin Quayle, whose wife is murdered, along with a man she's suspected of having an affair with, a local human rights activist. When...

7.3

50K votes

7.3

50K votes

La uruguaya

2022 · Movie · 78 min. · Argentina

Direction Ana Garcia Blaya

Cast Sebastián Arzeno · Fiorella Bottaiolli · Jazmín Stuart · Gustavo Garzon

Plot A writer who pins hopes on a free-spirited 25-year-old he meets in Montevideo to get through his midlife crisis. But his day turns out to be the most unexpected and...

7.2

28 votes

7.2

28 votes

The Pope's Toilet (El Baño del Papa)

2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Uruguay

Direction César Charlone · Enrique Fernández

Cast César Troncoso · Virginia Méndez · Virginia Ruíz · Mario Silva

Plot Following a visit by Juan Pablo II to a small border town in Uruguay, the locals dream about their needs being fulfilled and the money that will hopefully flow in...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Sugar (TV Series)

2024 · Series · min. · United States

Direction Mark Protosevich · Fernando Meirelles · Adam Arkin

Cast Colin Farrell · Amy Ryan · Kirby Howell-Baptiste · Dennis Boutsikaris

Plot TV series (2024-). 1 season. 8 episodes. An enigmatic private detective struggles with personal demons as he investigates the disappearance of a Hollywood producer's beloved granddaughter.

6.8

138 votes

6.8

138 votes

The Two Popes

2019 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fernando Meirelles

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Anthony Hopkins · Juan Minujín · Cristina Banegas

Plot Explores the relationship and opposing visions between two of the most powerful leaders in the Catholic Church, both of whom must address their own pasts and the demands of the...

6.8

14K votes

6.8

14K votes

American Made

2017 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Doug Liman

Cast Tom Cruise · Domhnall Gleeson · Jayma Mays · Sarah Wright

Plot Based on the real life exploits of Barry Seal, a pilot and drug runner for kingpin Pablo Escobar in the south during the 1980s who also landed work for the...

6.4

15K votes

6.4

15K votes

Blindness

2008 · Movie · 118 min. · Brazil

Direction Fernando Meirelles

Cast Julianne Moore · Mark Ruffalo · Danny Glover · Alice Braga

Plot A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of...

6.3

22K votes

6.3

22K votes

5.4

90 votes

Feliz Ano Velho

1987 · Movie · 111 min. · Brazil

Direction Roberto Gervitz

Cast Marcos Breda · Nan Breves · Alfredo Damiano · Alexandre Darbilly

Plot After diving into a shallow lake, a college student becomes tetraplegic. In his wheel chair, he remembers the important facts of his life as an adolescent.

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Unseen Enemy

2017 · Documentary · 98 min. · United States

Direction Janet Tobias

Cast Laurie Garrett · Larry Brilliant · Decontee Davis · George Gao

Plot In the 21st century we are all connected – even through illness. Population growth, urbanisation, climate change and global wanderlust are all jointly responsible for increasing the risk that known...

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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos

2000 · Documentary · 80 min. · Brazil

Direction Lula Buarque de Hollanda

Plot Documentary about French-born Pierre Verger, who lived between Bahia (Brazil) and Africa from 1946 until his death in 1996, and dedicated himself to photograph and research the Candomblé rites, becoming...

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Red Trees

2017 · Documentary · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marina Willer

Cast Tim Pigott-Smith

Plot It tells the story of the director's Jewish, Czech family escaping Nazi rule in World War Two.

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Sucker Free City (TV)

2004 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Ben Crowley · Ken Leung · Anthony Mackie · Darris Love

Plot Sucker-Free City, or S.F.C., revolves around the conflicts among white, black, Latino and Asian street gangs in San Francisco.

Not rated

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The Man in the Black Cape

1980 · Movie · 120 min. · Brazil

Direction Sergio Rezende

Cast José Wilker · Marieta Severo · Jonas Bloch · Isolda Cresta

Plot Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.

Not rated

Not rated

Benedetti, 60 años con Luz

2022 · Documentary · 80 min. · Uruguay

Direction Andrés Varela

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How Angels Are Born

1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Murilo Salles

Cast Priscila Assum · Silvio Guindane · André Mattos · Ryan Massey

Plot The too often tragically ignored street children of Rio de Janeiro figure prominently in this thriller that begins in a hillside slum where 13-year-old Branquinha brags to a German television...

Not rated

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Doida Demais

1989 · Movie · 105 min. · Brazil

Direction Sergio Rezende

Cast Vera Fischer · José Wilker · Paulo Betti · Ítalo Rossi

Plot Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes to the State of Bahia backcountry...

Not rated

Not rated