Direction: Eduardo Coutinho

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Eduardo Coutinho. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Twenty Years Later

1984 · Documentary · 119 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot Twenty Years Later (Portuguese: Cabra Marcado para Morrer, "A Goat Marked for Death") is a 1984 Brazilian documentary film which has become one of the best-known films directed by Eduardo...

7.7

77 votes

7.7

77 votes

Songs

2011 · Documentary · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

7.7

48 votes

7.7

48 votes

Edificio Master

2002 · Documentary · 110 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot For one week, Eduardo Coutinho and his team talked to 27 residents in an enormous building in Copacabana. Amongst these are a middle-aged couple who met through the classified ads...

7.4

110 votes

7.4

110 votes

Playing

2007 · Documentary · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

7.4

111 votes

7.4

111 votes

Ultimas Conversas

2015 · Documentary · 89 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Cast Eduardo Coutinho

Plot The late director Eduardo Coutinho sits down and talks with young Brazilian students in his last documentary.

7.0

38 votes

7.0

38 votes

Um Dia na Vida

2010 · Documentary · 94 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot The documentary is a selection of images on network television that Coutinho recorded for 24 hours. It was never released in theaters because of issues related to copyright and image.

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The ABC of Love

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho · Rodolfo Kuhn · Helvio Soto

Cast Vera Vianna · Reginaldo Faria · Jorge Rivera López · Susana Rinaldi

Plot Film that includes three short films by different directors about love: "O pacto" from director Eduardo Coutinho, "Noche terrible" from Rodolfo Kuhn and "Mundo mágico" from Helvio Soto.

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Peões

2004 · Documentary · 85 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot The Story of the workers who had participated of the striker movement in the Brazil with President Lula when he was a syndical leader.

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The Man Who Bought the World

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Cast Hélio Ary · Juju Batista · María Bethânia · Hélio Bloch

Plot In a fictitious country, civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities because he could break world economics. But he manages to...

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Boca de Lixo

1993 · Documentary · 50 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot The daily routine of poor people of Itaoca, São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro, who make a living out of revolving garbage.

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Moscou

2009 · Documentary · 78 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

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O Fim e o Princípio

2006 · Documentary · 110 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot A film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in...

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Santa Marta - Duas Semanas no Morro

1987 · Documentary · 54 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence.

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O Fio da Memória

1991 · Documentary · 115 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot An essay on the imagination, cultural identity and prejudice against black people, focusing on the work of Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos, salt mine worker and semi-illiterate black artist who has...

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The Mighty Spirit

1999 · Documentary · 49 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

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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...

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Teodorico, o Imperador do Sertão

1978 · Documentary · 49 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

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Babilonia 2000

1999 · Documentary · 80 min. · Brazil

Direction Eduardo Coutinho

Plot Documentary on poor people living in two slums in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve.

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